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artists. He also helped to organize
Montreal credit bureau.

He re-engaged in the force in 1932;
went back in Montreal drug enforce-
ment work for a time. Later he and
“Pete’ Bordeleau were fellow-mem-
bers of the Montreal preventive
squad, tracking down illegal stills.
They were dealing with tough cus-
tomers. The moonshine factories were
set up by engineers brought in from
the United States by associates of the
racketeer “Legs” Diamond and the
Purple Gang of Detroit.

One illicit still of enormous size was
found in a dummy woodworking fac-
tory. Suspicion was aroused by the
appearance of known _ bootleggers
near the plant, and increased by the
fact that the woodworking plant was
producing very little.

The woodworking plant was raided.
There was something patently phony
about it. Seven men were in the shop,
and all of them said they were em-
ployed as sweepers. But police could
not find the still which they suspected
was there—until one man looked in a

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cupboard, decided the floor had an
odd feel to it, and smashed the con-
crete with a sledge-hammer, disclosing
the entrance to an underground dis-
tillery.

The distillery was professionally
designed. The problem of disposing
of the mash, which produces a strong-
tell-tale odor, had been solved by
breaking into a city sewer and dump-
ing the refuse in there. The alcohol,
which was of high quality, was dis-
pensed through a dummy _ gasoline
pump which poured the stuff into
trucks.

Despite the dodge of dumping mash
into a city sewer, some of the odor of
mash was present. C. W. Harvison’s
son, Weston, then 12 years old, had
visited the scene shortly after the
raid, and taken note of the smell.

A few days later he reported to his
father that the same smell was present
at a coal-yard a block away from the
Harvison home. Mr. Harvison
accepted the boy’s information with-
out comment. Later the squad raided
the coal-yard, and turned up another
illegal still. The boy’s nose had been
right.

“I paid him $1 for his help. but if
he had only known, an informer is
entitled to a 25 per cent share of
whatever is seized. My son would have
been entitled to about $3,000.”
Weston, now a C.B.C. television tech-
nician in Winnipeg, hasn’t found out
to this day what he missed.

Harvison and Bordeleau also
worked together to crack “the
case of the scented stable,” in

which racketeers hidden on a

farm were reclaiming alcohol

from perfume.

In the 1930's C. W. Harvison played

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Gypsum Queen—a vessel which (its
owner said) had been sunk by a
German submarine. The owner col-
lected $73,000 compensation from the
Canadian government. But this claim
was later found to be fraudulent. The
vessel had not been sunk by a sub-
marine. its owner had scuttled it.

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