The Wichita daily eagle., 1903-07-19
.SHE. A WOMAN
AOONSB|NER
How officers Mere Bafled for
Years by Her.
STILL UNDER MILL DAM
Narrowing Tale of Her Final
Capture.


guilty TO running blockade stn and
was sentenced at the December term of
the United States court, held in Raleigh,
y. c., TO two years in the penitentiary
at Nashville
She is woman OF good sense and
without education-a typical moonshiner.
declares the Philadelphia Press. She is
about forty years old. If she had store
clothes she would be a coniely woman,
but she appeared before the court with
an old split bonnet on, with a snuf-dip-
ping toothbrush in her mouth, and the
corners thereof red with the snuff she
had been dipping.
/ Her blockade still'' was successfully
hidden from the revenue officers for ten
years.
The officers knew there was a still
near Heater & Thompson's mill. in the
northern part of this country. in which
Raleigh is situated. This portion OF the
county is known as the dark corner !;
and in this dark corner and along the
banks OF the Neuse River there is an
immense cane break, known among
those who live in the dark corner as
the "Harricane, The land forming
the ''Harricane,'' is cultivated and is
which is from seven 10 ten feet high. 1t
is swampy and the strip covered with
cane IL about three miles wide and five
miles long.
In this cane break the moonshiners do
a hourishing business all the year
round A public road runs through the
west end of the 'Harricane." and at
this point two men have a mill. which is
propelled by the current of the Neuse
River. There is a dam across the river
about fifteen feet high, and the men do
q thriving business grinding corn. and
wheat, saving lumber and ginning cot
ton.
For years the revenue officers have
been searching for a blockade STILL -
near this mill They have found several
places where stills had been set up and
run. but they had been pulled out
when the officers got there. and they had
raided every foot of land for a mile
around the mill without finding any signs
of a still
During the month of November, while
Perkins was raiding near this mill. they
found a plentiful supply Of wild ducks
on the river. They concluded they
would kill ducks for a few days, and
while they were ambushed on the bank
OF the river they observed that the ducks
were continuously eating something that
appeared 10 be on top Of the water. This
proved upon investigation. to be bran
from corn meal. and appeared to have
a
hunting below the mill and they con-
cluded that the bran came from the
slops Of a stfl which was being emptied
into the river Again the search began
but without success, and the officers
came 10 Raleigh because their presence
was generally known in the neighbor-
hood.
They went back Immediately by another
route. but could not find any bran above
the mill dam. Immediately below the
dam they found bran. however. and for
this reason were satisfied that the still
was connected In some way with the mill
house. This structure is Of wood, two
stories high. with a chimney at the end
near the dam. In cold weather the mill
house is heated by a huge fire made OF
wood. The officers had previously mo
themselves in the woods some distance
away and watched with their glasses al
who went 20 the mill. They had seen
Puldah Mines go in and remain a short
time and come out. but they never saw
snv kegs or barrels brought away from
the mill
In hunting UP and down the river
they found what appeared 70 he a land
ing place 4 further examination of the
water exposed several kegs one OF
these was taken out and proved TO be
f,u Of newtv-nade corn Thiskey- X was
p,,t hack and none Of the kegs were mo-
Ier,ed. The dam across the river at this
noint is fifteen feet high and about eighty
yards wide.
Ware and Perkins returned 70 the MIL
house At night. Effected an entrance. con-
cealed themselves ard awaited develop
ments.
-rhav remained in the mill until nearly
a.,-1ggh. and no one came. Then they
LET the MIL ND Themselves IN ne
xoods. and watched the NIL with their
Glasses ali day The next morning theF
sax the miller. q man ~ the name q
Raw and Huldah Mines x into ihe faiii'
s,6 obgerves them during the day bit
a. not see Miss Mines again untI near
:, ssrk xheu she came out % TIE rniA
ard vent oH Il the direction q n@f
r,ne about two miles from TIE ralil
r.trsnC the day the chimney bad been
CRYING out contin1ously q heavy back
.-,oka and a. X s-eE dark the osioers
--o.,Ad m nearer The MIL ard tesir ions
,.tSff zrss rewarded ~ sesinE TIE woman
,eturn znd unlock ~ I'll snd = II
they could rot imagine what had D.
rarne q Mss Mrs. for shs hao
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