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Colacci had any other homes in Louisville and given that 1209 Main is documented as having a basement): <br />"One of the most productive raids ever made on a moonshine plant in Boulder county was staged on Jim <br />Colacci's place in Louisville last Friday just before noon by Sheriff Robert Blum, HENIF BLUR GE I S <br />Deputy Sheriff Roy Reed and Federal prohibition officer J. R. Calloway. <br />"Collacci is an unmarried, unnaturalized Italian and he and his place have been LOUMELE STILI <br />under surveillance by the authorities for some time past. Friday Sheriff Blum <br />was tipped off that the time was ripe for a raid. Accordingly Blum and his posse Still An are Raided, <br />ti- <br />descended upon Collacci's residence, which is located in a prominent place in Still And Large Sei% d <br />Louisville. Entering the house the officers discovered a trap-door in the dining ties Of Honda Seized <br />room. They lifted this door and descended down a ladder about ten feet into the basement. Here they found <br />what they were looking for. There was confiscated a 15-gallon copper still, 30 gallons of whisky, 3 gallons of <br />rare old wine, 400 gallons of corn sugar mash, several gallons of coloring fluid, 20 five -gallon jars, a number of <br />glass containers, a few kegs, ten or twelve gallons of gasoline and 2 sacks of sugar. <br />"It may be said in favor of Collacci that everything was spotlessly clean. The still and other articles were <br />loaded into trucks and taken back to Boulder by Blum and his men. The still had a capacity of 50 gallons daily. <br />One of the most interesting things found was the distiller's ledger; In this ledger were written the names of <br />165 customers who are indebted to Collacci for "merchandise rendered " Among the 165 names on the list <br />are those of Boulder County lawyers, farmers, truck drivers, merchants, doctors, idle rich and others of <br />various and sundry callings. It will make an interesting and instructive document if made public when <br />Collacci's case is brought up for trial. <br />"Collacci is an old offender in the moonshine industry and it will probably go pretty hard with him <br />when the court gets busy with him. He will in all probability be sent down to Canon City to board with <br />Tom Tynan [The warden of the State Penitentiary in Canon City], while others are making a move to <br />have him deported. His is the second big still put out of business in Louisville within the last thirty days <br />by Sheriff Blum." <br />Unfortunately, more information could not be located about the raid, any trial, or the ledger. However, it is <br />possible that Jim Colacci served time in the State Penitentiary as a result of the raid, as was suggested in the <br />article as being a possibility. <br />Apparently related to the raid and his legal problems, Jim Colacci quickly took action to get himself access to a <br />large amount of money -$1500 (worth about $26,000 in today's dollars). On Oct. 2, 1924, which was less than <br />two weeks after the raid, he deeded a half interest in his property at 1209 Main over to Rome Perrella. (Rome <br />was the son of his neighbors, Joseph and Flora Perrella, who were the longtime residents of 1201 Main and <br />who had come from a village in Italy not far from the village of the Colaccis.) The sale amount shown on the <br />deed was $1500. Four years later, in 1928, Rome Perrella deeded the half -interest in the property back to him <br />for the same amount of money, according to Boulder County records. These transactions suggest that Jim <br />Colacci may have needed funds to pay a large fine, but this is not known for certain. It is also possible that Jim <br />Colacci did serve time and that Rome Perrella looked after the house during this period. (Jim Colacci did not <br />appear in the 1926 Louisville directory.) <br />1209 Main Street Page <br />