The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-01-08

with me. Then they seemed to got
desperate and rewards were offered
for me and, of course, 1 was willing
then TO keep them on the hunt l kept
right on making good whiskey and
never lacked a market for IL. The
officers got on To my selling places and
would lay for me, but | didn't show up
when they were around. / found IL
best not to tell even my customers
exactly when to expect me, for some
how the date would leak M and a
gang OF officers would be on hand. L
would say, except me between the
18th and 30th, and then come In quietly
on the 18th or l4th.
1.-THE people in the country about
were very generally my friends, but
the offer of O reward for my capture
vas too much for some neighbors of
mine, and one day while I was out In
one of my fields, looking after my
hands, | heard q voice say, Put up
your hands | looked around and not
forty yards off were three neighbors
and some revenues with pistols and
Winchesters on me. hadn't a weapon
of any kind and 1t was across q hill
and the river to my house. / just
walked away from them, up the hill,
they peppering away, but never touch
ing me-, nor did they move up on me.
1t was q pretty hot walk and L confess
that when q bullet cut a branch just
over my head and covered me with
chips and trash 1 was so mad / turned
and cussed them. 1 couldn't help it.
Over the other side of the hill /
hurried and got my gun and came
back, but my neighbors had decided
me after all and left. And they missed
q crop that season, too, for they
thought the neighborhood unhealthy
and didn't come back for u good while.
There was one in the party, how
ever, that asked me to forgive him and
when he owned up to being in the
wrong l gave him my hand. 1t was
some time afterwards, Of course. He
was M of my best frierds after that
and would have done anything for me.
81 don't like to talk about my cap
ture and all that. In fact l never do.
But | can say that in my troubles 1
had some stanch and true friends, none
Of whom were more faithful to me
than Judge Field.
81 shall rover forget the visit of a
reporter from The News and Courier,
Charleston, out at my house in the
mountains, while the revenues were
red-hot after me. He was q fine young
fellow and came with Judge Fields, SO
l know he was all right, but he was by
no means easy. l remember that after
spending the night out there, and
when fixing to go back, he told me
that he was afraid that the revenue
officers would turn up and that | gus
Pecting him of foul play, would plug
him first thing. 1t was amusing to me,
but he was, no doubt, in earnest. He
went about that section with me and
y,nn cook onn,tNo4I &I.A kL- $1,000
spread by the evenu officers about
my being a terror to the natives was
not true and, in fact, that | was we'll
known by most everyone, and he wrote
to Governor Hampton and for The
News and Courier the true story Of af-
fairs or course you know of my i'm
prisonment. pardon, etc.
swell it is all over now and am
making "a good living and bringing up
my family in a peaceful and regular
way. | have ninc children and two or
three Of them are pretty we'll grown. .
What do | think OF the ~dispensary
law? Well, | don't know exactly. But
it doesn't amount to much in that To-
cality. There arc some constables up
there, but they watch the depots and
that's about all. The country people
wouldn't stand what goes on in the
towns, and the constable don't try That
kind of work there"
Mr.. Redmond said that he would be
in the city for u day or two perhaps.
Richmond was usually his market, but
he had tried Charleston for better
prices. "Pricos are very low, how
ever" he said, and there seems to
be an overstockcd market, particularly
in hogs and CATTLE"
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