The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-08-02
STORY OF A RAID.
How the Revenue Men Capture Illicit
Whiskey.
: Ahanto journal.

oVVuSS JoAA3 ouu ~ ~ AS
successfully conducted blind tiger
in the Douglasville jail while serving
sentence for blockading, the liquor
being brought TO him by his son. He
greeted Deputies Moore and Martin as
old friends, whom he had met fre-
quently before, and who had destroyed
many copper for him and enriched
Uncle Sam with the product of many
big run.
The sole CONAN was not at home
to receive the visitors, much to Johns
regret for she dearly loves the revenue
agents and always fries pair Of chick
ems when Deputy Moore comes along.
A search Of the premises, with John
holding the torch, failed to locate the
goods, and after coming out in the
front yard John took compassion on
the party and generously volunteered
to find dram for each. He disap-
peared in the house and soon returned
with a tin cGpfull Of his own product,
Of which he cautiously said the cole
CONAN always kept small supply
less than half gallon-because she
vas sickly. A second dram was later
resurrected from the same source,
which he said exhausted the supply.
The officers concluded that daylight
would assist materially in finding the
liauor, and after declining Johns hos
pitable invitation to spend the re-
mainder of the night with him, re-
turned to the hack, where Mother
Earth furnished welcome couch upon
which to rest our weary limbs.
Sunday morning at 5 o'clock the
! party divided, the guide and driver
remaining to search the premises
about John Crompton's abode, while
Deputies Martin and Moore and my
self drove over to Henry Buffers,
some two miles further on the road
going toward Dallas, who has long
been noted for the excellentsquality Of
the moonshine he distills as we'll as
the quantity, and it was thought
probable the particular stock Of which
we we're in search had been left with
him.
Henry .greeted the party with a
broad.guage smile and introduced US
T, to his wife and eight children as
though we were welcome guests, as:
indeed, we really appeared to be. He
'of course made no objection when the
officers announced their intention Of
making a search, and at the same
time gave orders to his wife to kill a
couple Of chickens and prepare break
fast ''for the gentlemen from Atlanta. !"
Henry and his wife are both heavy
weights and their combined avoidupois
will reach 500 pounds.
By the time the search was COM
pleted and the liquor was yet INDICATED,
baeakfast was ready. consisting Of
fried chicken, hot biscuits, butter aud
coffee, for Henry is successful farm
er as we'll as a aistiller, and raises his
own wheat, corn, cotton, pigs and
COWS. The visitors fell to with keen
relish, as they were hungry after their
many miles of travel and night in
the open air.
Henry had never met Deputy Moore,
but had vivid recollection Of Deputy
Martins capturing forty gallons of
liquor in his house several years ago,
i for which he excused himself on the
score that he was then young in the
cause" but had since learned to hide
it better. He also corrected Deputy
Moore's impression as to some Of the
! parties connected with an attempted
whitecapping during raid he made
| in that vicinity some time back. !
Upon returning to the road near
John Crompton' house the guide,
John Lane, and the driver, Jack
Smith, were found sittisg alongside a
ffteen-gallon keg Of freshly distilled
liquor which they had found hidden
away in the ravine below. This was
placed in the hack, and on the way
back to Villa Rica stops were made at
the homes of Walter Rollins and Sam
Moody, two other famous moonshiners,
to let them know that no partiality
was being shown, and incidentally to
take a look through their houses and
barns.
As an illustration of how busy the
revenue agents are kept in Pauldin
| county, Deputy Martin says that he
cut up scverty-two coppers in that
district in three months. Every creek
running through the mountains has
from one to lozen illicit distilleries