The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-01
GEORGIA'S MO0NSHINERS.
THEY KEPT y. S. DEPUTY CARTIER
VERY BUSY.

He Had n Remarkable Months wort
Roth Exciting and Hazordous-A va.
riety of Cases.
Deputy Collector Barlow It. Garter
one of the best known, shreWdest and
most daring officers in the revenue ser
vice in Georgia. has just completed a
remarkable months work and one beset
with excitement and hazardous expert
ences. With one assistant alone for
most of the time-Jasper N. Jones, in
nocent looking, but of the rougher mold
Of humanity and schooled in woodcraft
as are few if any others In Georgia
he has pentrated the hills Of haf a
dozen counties and located and de-
stroyed more than half a dozen wildcat
stills and their belongings, and cap
ltured whiskey wagons; doing away with
and turning in to the government pro-
perty amounting to over $4,000. His
operations furnish a tale of dash and
adventure finding q few parallels in line
in civil times.
There was not a day or night during
the month that he was not either plan
ming for execution a raid Of some kind
His first still scented was on the I'd Of
the month and was that of Tom KIM
ball, in Polk county, eight miles south
east of Rockmart. Kimball had run his
still successfully for thirteen years and
had often boasted that no revenue man
could catch him. His still was at a
spot wild enough to seem secure from
invasion, being between hills rising
abruptly on every side and approach
able with difficulty by any one afoot,
much less by vehicle or horse. On the
road leading toward the place Carter
captured two boys. 1t was nearly
night when one of them escaped. While
operations for discovery were progress
ing the chap was giving the alarm, as
was afterwards shown. After escaping
he secured pistol at house he pass
ed and ran through the woods firing it.
The operators of the still moved it and
whisky on hand away where 1t could
not be found. Carter and Jones left
their hack in the road in charge of
negro driver and hunting In the woods
located where the still had been. They
burned the building and tubs and de-
stroyed the malt AS they returned in
the direction where they had left the
team, they heard yells and curses. Com
ing to the place they found nothing
there. The still men had come on the
negro driver and given him a fearful
beating. Then they hitched the team
up to the hack, thrashed the horses to
give them wild start, and turned them
loose in the road, headed in the direc-
ton of Rockmart The postmaster at
Vincent, a mile and a half away next
day found the vehicle and horses in a
cotton field the vehicle broken to pieces
and the horses roaming about loose and
badly skinned up.
The negro driver ran through the
woods and fields, being afraid of the
roads. to Rockmart where he told his
tale Of woe. Mr., Morgan, a liveryman
to whom the team belonged, got the
marshal Of the place and a small posse
and went to hunt the hack and the
revenue men, reaching them in the ear
ly forenoon. Carter and his men had |
been out all night and kept the cap
tured boy with them, but were serene
and satisfied after having accomplished |
their work The enlarged party made |
a search for the still men whom they
found and who, after a heavy fusllade |
of shots, ran like deer.
On the night of the 9Th Carter and his |
man made a chase for Illicit whisky and |
on farm eight miles from Gainesville |
they found a wagon on a lonely road.
Two men were with 1t. They were Hen
ry Slower and Joe Strickland Of Lick
Log, in Dawson county. They had been
in the neighborhood where found four
or five days. The mules were unhtched
from the wagon. After the contents of
the wagon had been ascertained, Jones
had one mule turned to hitch up. Slower,
had the other mule, and stripping har-
ness off in a twink1ing. mounted and
fled. Eighteen or twenty gallons of liz
uor and peach brandy were found and
empty vessels, showing the wagon had
about 200 gallons. An extra
mule was hired and the wagon and con-
tents brought to Cartersville.
On the Sth three stills We're captured,
that of Major Parsons, eight miles from
Rockmart that of VIII Hindsman. and
that of Bob Wommack, all close by each
other; no resistance being encountered.
On the 18th the Henry Collins conspir-
lcy case, told of in "Tbe Constitution"
was worked UP in which Carter, assist,
ID by j. D. Goode, did some shrewd
work in securing evidence. The same
lay a copper still and sixty gallons of
liquor was seized at Tyre Owens place.
The next cases reveal the several cum
ling and lengths of ingenuity that are
employed by those, deter
mined to flank the governments thou
shalt not" and balk it's agents. A mile
northwest of Steadman, in Harrison :
county, is a little cooped in place in the ,
ills furnishing a harmless looking
landscape from one of the roads leading j.,
rom Cedartown to Tallapoose, but the 8
ills secluded and cut into a number Of :,
title branches, furnish favorable 7
,lace for moonshining operations. Here !
) the haunt of Young Sewell, a noted :,
lockader A common country house :
vas visited by Carter. A search dis =
losed an ordinary cellar under kitchen :
art. IN this cellar the still was run,
yell being dug in the cellar to furnish
he necessary water. The house was
vidently built as q blind for the cellar
lstillery as no one was living in it.
t was believed to be Sewelrs :,
Eight miles east from Tallapooea next y