It must’ve been a “thing” to keep the confiscated booze in a jail cell. Sheriff Males did it, as did Police Chief Schmitt, who had a booze cellar—two jail cells full of confiscated liquor being held as evidence. People started hearing stories about how the police department’s stash was shrinking.

Here’s a picture from the Library of Congress that doesn’t specify where it was taken but the caption indicated that this was confiscated booze.