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This notebook pertains to two alcohol tax cases investigated by Michael J. Daly of the Internal Revenue Service. Both cases occurred in Massachusetts in mid-winter 1935.

This notebook relates to two alcohol tax cases investigated by Michael J. Daly of the Internal Revenue Service in late winter 1935. The first, dated February 21, 1935, pertains to a search of Gertrude's Restaurant in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Owned by husband and wife, Stephen and Gertrude Wonderlie, the restaurant was found to contain untaxed alcohol in a variety of quantities. The second investigation, dated March 11, 1935, was at a bank-owned dwelling where two men, John J. Peanamanda and Frank Teixeira, were siphoning gas to power an illegal still of several hundred gallons. Federal agents and the Somerville police discovered 135 gallons of moonshine and a supply of mash, with 10 gallons of moonshine stored in a car registered to Helen Sullivan of Medford, Massachusetts.