Nosy Police Sniff Mash, Still Still

Two Tulsa vice squad officers got a sniff of an illegal still case Tuesday and ended their investigation today smelling to high heaven.

Officers Charlie Jones and Gary Glanz nosed out the case Tuesday night as they walked along the 2500 block of North Lansing Avenue.

The aroma of cooking corn mash drifted from a vacant house.

The officers aroused Municipal Judge Luther P. Lane at 3 a.m. Wednesday, obtained a search warrant and returned to the house. They spent 10 hours sitting in a 6-by-10-foot shed about 40 feet behind the empty residence.

Shortly after noon Wednesday, their suspect appeared.

Jones and Glanz left their aromatic observation post, arrested a 23-year-old suspect and confiscated 110 gallons of corn mash.

Three bubble baths later, Jones returned today to file a felony charge of operating an unlicensed still against George Roberts of 507 1/2 E. Latimer Court.