Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-11-11
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How 6 baltimore Hundred Man is
Making Money at the Expense of
the Government and His Neigh

Making Money at The Expense OF
the Government and His Neigh
bors.
From Every Evening oi yesterday
Marshal NcMullen has Just ended search
which has lasted for about two months At
the beginning Of that time information was
lodged with him that a man named Thomas
Johnson living not far from Franktord,
Baltimore hundred, Sussex county, was
engaged in selling whisky without license
His plan OF operations was to ill a demijobn
containing some two gallons of rum, hook mp
his horse and drive around the country ia
that locality whenever there WIS public
gathering Of any kind going on. and There
sell his whisky. Marshal McAluen went
down for him early IN September but he got
information concerning the matter AMI
escaped IN the woods which are so plenty
about there The Marshal then left warrants
N the hands Of various parties, among them
eN-Shcrltl FRUIT, but the arrest was not made.
Information concerning JOnhsun's move
mcnia and operations kent coming mp 10y let
ter. Al yerdnc III that locality on the 18th
of October the ubiquitous liquor dealer was
seen doing thriving business with his
precious jug. II is said by people living down
there that he Widened his field on election
day and sold barrel of liquor.
As the complaints kept coming in, the
Marshal decidei to make Il strategic attempt
tu capture MIR. johnson. Accordingly. ON
Monday Inst his deputies. A. 4. Ainseuw and
john li"rsun. went down the Delaware rail-
road on a cunning expedition. They took the
junction y Brrakwatcr at harrington and
the BrcaliNnlcr 4 fratlforl ut Georgetown
At Millrboru' they left the railroad and com
lnenced TO gun, proceeding in the direction of
iuhnsOn- house, about nine miles from the
Nlillsburu' station. Here they arrived about
. O'Clock Monday evening, just as johnson
was going TO bed, and the arrest was made
without further parley lie was at once
taken to naEsbnro about live miles away
where the oiiecrs and their prisoner remained
over night. Yesterday morning they took thu
train ut llugshoro' for home, arriving here in
the evening. and Mr.. johnson slept in the
rtistpu-hDuse all night.
The deputies brought NJ with them O. wit
nesscs John 4. Long, T.. n. B. Helm and
Hnchaliah PcttAjulu. johnson was gwen Il
preliminary hearing this morning before
Commissioner Smith, and, though the evil
dcnce WAS somewhat ncagre, he was held in
$500 bail to appear 1T the next term of the
United States District Court. Messrs. Helm
and Long went his bail aud he was released
departing for Sussex by the morning Della
ware train.
johnson il one-armcd man, has wife
and -four children. He farms tract of about
40 acres in Baltimore hundred, his land being
almost surrounded by forest. 1t lies near
Dagsboru' and Frankford. His family APP
pears 10 be in destitute circumstances. and
yet some of his neighbors believe him to be
worth more money than he looks to be. lie
is shielded by many in his Illicit traffic, and
many more who would gladly have Informed
on linn long ago are afraid of him. He has
done a sufficiently good business in his own
crude way to have warranted Ilm in taking ont
a license some time ago.