[Rarebooks] FS: Kansas City takes down a Bootlegger

[Bob Petrilla]

Kansas, Wyandotte County. WARRANT--INTOXICATING LIQUOR--BONE
DRY--MANUFACTURING--SALES AND NUISANCE--SEARCH AND SEIZURE: State of
Kansas, Plaintiff vs. Mary Cegielski, 1256 Homer [Avenue]. Kansas City,
Kansas, 1923. Original document. (8)pp, folio. Complaint filed by Justus N.
Baird, 15 January 1923, cnarges that the defendant "did manufacture
intoxicating liquors" and "did unlawfully sell and barter malt, vinous,
spiritous, fermented and other intoxicating liquors" in the "one story
frame building" at 1258 Homer Street, Kansas City. This warrant also covers
"bottles, glasses, jugs, kegs, barrels, cases, a still and other
receptacles...." Signed by Carl W. Finche, Clerk of the District Court, 18
January 1923. With the warrant are:  a 3-page statement of Information,
signed by Joshua N. Baird, County Attorney; an Order of Parole for one
year, signed by Judge F.D. Hutchings; and a receipt for the $200 Parole
Bond, paid by Mary Cigiliski [sic], signed by various parties, and sealed.
All printed forms, filled in by typewriter and by hand. 14" x 8.5" Very
Good.
Speakeasies in private homes were not uncommon in the Kansas City of the
1920s, which along with Kansas City, Missouri, was reputed to be a hotbed
of bootleggers. Judge Frank D. Hutchings, who signed two of the documents
in the group offered here, turns up regularly as an enforcer of Prohibition
(see "History of Wyandotte County, Kansas, and Its People")  Mrs. Hutchings
was a staunch member of the local DAR. Many other references to Judge
Hutchings and Prohibition in Wyandotte County are found in the pages of
"The Kansis City Kansan." The long history of prohibition in Kansas reaches
back to 1881 when the State Constitution outlawed the sale and consumption
of alcoholic beverages.   $100.00

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