The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-03-30

penitentaries. including ono sentence In
Missouri and one in Kansas. He has taken
part in 20 fights with revenue officers, and
proudly owns up to having KILLED three men
and wounded score or more. Like many
habitual "moonshiners," he makes q boast
Of his exploits and very coolly related the
story Of his life the other day.
II was born" Muse said, TN Pulaski
county, KY. near Somerset, Al years ago.
My father and mother lived on q little
farm. When I was IA years Of age my IA
Their died. and then mother and 1 worked
the farm for three years. Mother married
again at the end Of that time, and my
stepfather and I did not get along we'll to-
gether. He accused me once Of setting the
revenue officers on his track for selling
whisky, and l took down rifle and fired
shot at him. 1 missed, and set out for
the hills. 1 had no kinfolks and there was
no place for me to go to. One night
stopped in a little valley. where l had
found a cabin. Back of 1t was q still. Dur
ing my life among the moonshiners Of
Pulaski, for that is one of the biggest
moonshine counties in the state, I had
learned considerable about making whisky.
and could run doubling as well as the
balance Of them.
II saw the owner had become frightened
by the revenue officers and had abandoned
the still for good. I concluded to take pos
session, and did so. In short time l had
run out a lou Oh THO WulCeSt WHISKY L ndO
ever seen. 1t was prime stuff, and I did
not have the slightest trouble in selling it
at $3.50 a gallon. Well sir, 1 worked there
for four months and made on a rise Of 400
gallons. The whole batch I sold for $500.
This gave me @ start. and l bought good
little still. and became one of the moneyed
men of tbs community. But the officers
had learned that was there, for by this
time l had made many friends, and the
old folks were glad to claim me again. The
shooting was forgotten as soon as began
to get money. I soon had to move. and
transferred my still six piles north. to-
Casey county, on Little Deer creek. Here
1 got job to furnish 400 gallons Of whisky
to an Eastern man. I made the stuff in six
weeks, and got $500 for it. A licensed distil-
Ter bought it. But he people in that section
did not take kindly to me- and after had
shot a fellow in the shoulder and bit q
piece out Of the shoulder OF another was
forced to leave. At his time had a fight
with a fellow beat In a horse trade. and
he shot me here in the mouth where you
see this scar. didn't have my gun With
me or he would never have seen daylight
again..
Much of Muses. story Is corroborated by
the federal court officials, who have got to
know him we'll. Ex-Deputy Marshal Mac
Donald said that one man Muse shot III
Casey county died soon afterWard OF blooo
poisoning resulting from the wound out
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conviction He knows Muse to be one OF
the worst moonshiners with whom the au-
thorities have had to deal, and he has heard
MANY remarkable stories of the man.
A quite different type of revenue violator
is a pioneer now in the Louisville jail. he
is George Rowe, of Madison county, and Is
ONLY Is years old. His offense was not the
making of whisky, but the selling without
a license He is confined in a section Of
the iail with so moonshiners, and his story
is pathetic one.
Il didn't do anything wrong" said Rowe.
"a man told me If l would deliver a jug
of whisky for him he would give me
quarter. 1 was saving money to buy my
schoolbooks WITH and wanted to make all
| could, so l took the fellow up and deiv-
cred the stuff all right. l also collected for
it and returned the money to the man VINO
hired me, The marshals heard of this and
arrested me. I'm getting pretty tired Of
living down there in Madison county.
thought l would try to make something ont
of myself At any rate, | made up my mind
that l would keep out of Jail. II m
cleared I'm going to move to another
county if 1 have to leave home.
Rowe is handsome little fellow. with
black hair and big blue eyes. He spends
his time playing tricks on his fellow pris-
oners. Hundreds of persons are arrested
every year whose cases are similar to MIS-
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