Dry Workers Help to Destroy Liquor Here Valued at $15,000

From The Indianapolis Star, Saturday, August 1, 1925:  More than $15,000 (2024:  $273,986) worth of liquor was destroyed yesterday afternoon in the basement of the county jail. Under the direction of Marion County sheriff Omer Hawkins, more than fifty people interested in the enforcement of the liquor law uncorked bottles of rare wine, whisky, and other intoxicants, pouring the liquid into the sewer.  The “liquor party” destroyed the stock confiscated last fall from the home of Herbert Duckwell, 3818 N. Delaware.  Woman’s Christian Temperance Union leaders and Anti-Saloon League representatives gave shouts of merriment when a cork popped loudly, or a participant was splattered with “Benedictine” or “Old Tom” as the liquor gushed from the bottle.  The pungent odor of liquor filled the air, settling on participants clothing, deputies cautioning the smell of liquor was prima facie evidence of drinking.

“Dry Workers Help to Destroy Liquor Here Valued at $15,000,” The Indianapolis Star, 1 August 1925, p. 8:4