Evening Star, 2 December 1929, page 3: Dry agents raid town mayor’s home

Page 3 of the Evening Star for Monday, 2 December 1929 prints an Associated Press story datelined Chicago, December 2, headed “DRY AGENTS RAID TOWN MAYOR’S HOME,” with the deck “President of Chicago Suburb Under Capone Domination and His Wife Held on Charges.” It opens: “Mayoralty circles of Stickney, a Chicago suburb reputedly under the domination of ‘Scarface Al’ Capone, were further in” and, after an advertisement interrupts the column, “Federal prohibition raids upon the home of Anton Rench, the village mayor.”

It says the raid on Saturday night, after “numerous complaints concerning conditions in Stickney,” was made by agents under a deputy dry administrator, that beer, gin, whisky and wine were seized at what it calls the Rench home, “also known as La Ruth Bungalow,” and that the mayor’s wife, who said she was in charge of the roadhouse, was held until the pair pledged to appear at the Federal building. It adds that the mayor had been indicted for election fraud “along with the two Capones” about a year and a half earlier and that those charges “were later dismissed.”

“Reputedly” is the wire’s word. This archive cites the page for the village name and the story’s description of it, not for any fact about the named persons beyond what it prints as a report of a raid and charges.