1927-07-01-sr-p9-jail-again-gets-john-pavelich
July 01, 1927 Spokesman-Review Page 9:
JAIL AGAIN GETS JOHN PAVELICH
He Beat Two Manslaughter Trials Following Death of Dr. G. H. Green.---
FOILED WOMAN'S CASE
Last Night He Was Engaged in Brisk Fourth of July Booze Business, Say Police.
John Pavelich, 32, Austrian bootlegger, and Mike Chatonich, 42, Austrian bartender, were lodged in the city jail last night on jointist charges after police officers had raided the Montana bar, Trent and Washington.
A brisk Fourth of July business in bootlegging was checked with the arrest of the pair who had 20 dozen empty whisky bottles in stock, according to the officers.
Evidence of six moonshine sales last night is held by the police in addition to two pints of booze, the quantity of empty bottles and a number of whisky serving glasses, according to Officers Rummer, Bartel and Benard, who conducted the raid.
Broke Bottles With Hatchet.
When the officers entered the place a& signal was given and a man in the basement started breaking bottles of moonshine with a hatchet, it is said. All the evidence was taken to the police station, including the bar cash register, which police say contained the marked money received in the liquor sales.
Pavelich, who has two convictions against him on bootlegging charges, according to the police, figured in the Dr. G. H. Green manslaughter case“ and a $10,000 damage case in which Mrs. Lela Humphrey charged he injured her.
Stood Two Manslaughter Trials.
As a result of Dr. Green's death in an auto collision with Pavelich’s car March 6, 1925, Pavelich stood two trials on a charge of manslaughter. The jury disagreed after the first trial and he was acquitted by the second jury.
He was made defendant in the $10,000 damage suit in which Mrs. Lela Humphrey charged that he threw her from his auto north of the city August 25, 1925, cracking two of her ribs and breaking her arm. Pavelich won the case.
E. C. Wold, 37, and Joseph Lormer, 35, were arrested in the raid last night and jailed on charges of vagrancy and drunkenness, respectively.
