The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-14
MAKING ILLICIT BEER.
FOUR EMANUEL COUNTY MOON
SINNERS CAPTURED.

Deputy Marshal Goodman's Descent
Upon the "Vineland" Plantation and
Moonshine Distillery Where Beer
is Made From Potatoes-His Arrest
for Carrying Concealed Weapons
and Setting Fire to the Woods-A
Lively Experience.
United States Deputy Marshal w. H.
Goodman made a descent upon the wine
land" plantation, nine miles from SWANS
boro, in Emanuel county, Wednesday, and
arrested Rowan Harrington, Elan Hall,
Dan Rich white, and George Gay colored),
ON charge of running an illicit distillery.
They were brought to this city, where Her
rlngton Is undergoing an examination be-
fore United States Commissioner Lamar.
The examination was adjourned last night
until to-day, for the purpose of having
Col. Alfred Harrington and Mr. Kennedy
here as witnesses.
HUNTING A MoONSHINER STILL.
A MORNING NEWS reporter learned the
details of the causes leading up to the arrest,
and how the moonshiners spotted the Mar
shall when he was nosing around where the
still was located on a lookout for the still on
was not long in finding out that a negro
woman had been spying his movements as
soon as he got on the plantation, and it was
not long before she was able to sound the
alarm. AS Goodman was lodging in and
about the dense foliage in the vicinity of
a creek or bay and mad got close enough to
discover the still house there was gather
ing of the clan Mr. Goodman seeing that
they were mastering reiterated in good order,
IN wa n
see that Harrington, Hall, Rich and Gay
were following him. They said something
about putting hole through Goodman's
liver, Hall having previously asked in a
rough manner what he was doing there.
Goodman put on a bold front when the
four men accosted him, and hating, made
out as if he were about to draw a weapon,
telling them to come on. They were very
much excited, and Goodman was permitted
to continue his journey unmoleSted. As a
matter of fact the officer did not have his
side arms with him, and the four men had
good stout cudgels. Goodman reached
Swainsboro that night after a tiresome
walk of nine miles, making a twenty-five
mile jaunt that day.
ARRESTING A U. S. MARSHAL.
The next morning the Marshal was sur
prlsed to find himself arrested on two aft
davitS sworn out by Col. Alfred Herring
ton, County Solicitor and editor of the
Pine Forest, nephew of Rowan Harrington
and the reputed owner of the still at the
time it was first set up, he having applied
to have it registered to dstll potatoes, but
as the revenue laws were silent on the sub
iect of the distillation of potatoes his appli-
cation was denied.
1t appears tn Rowan Harrington dis
patched the negro Gay to Swainsboro on a
mule immediately after the episode in the
road with Goodman. The negro repre-
sented that Goodman had two navy re-
volvers on his person, and that he had set
fire to the woods and burned 1900 rails
The warrants charging concealed weapons
and setting fire to The woods were served
on him by an officer named Canady.
Goodman's only answer to the first charge
was to show his badge as a United States
Deputy Marshal To the second he got in
buggy with Col. Harrington and drove
down to Vipeland, where, not only did he
show that the woods had been fired ten
days or two weeks before his visit, but the
negro Gay admitted that himself and
Rowan Harrington had been burning leaves
and brush and had let the fire get away
from them. This disposed of the second
charge. Goodman SAYS that Col. Herring
ton did everything that was honorable in
the matter, and that on their visit to Vine
land they discovered the place from which
the still had been recently removed.
A BROTHERS. TESTIMONY
A brother of Berrien Harrington testified
that the still was there before Christmas,
and he had seen beer poured out at the
house. He had seen the still dozen times,
and seen fire in it. He had seen beer more
than once in barrels, but the men told him
that they had poured it out because they
couldn't get the still registered. 1t was cop
per still and looked as if it had been working
Rowan said that he bought it in Savannah