The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-10
REVENUE MEN
MAKE BIG HAUL.
Deputy MarshaIs SteII and
Moore Make Four
Arrests
SOME SHREWD SCHEMES
All Stills, Three in Number, Lo-
Gated in Pits With Novel Ar
engagements for Care of
Smoke and for Water Sup
ply; Work Done Between 2
a. m. and 6 p. m.

Deputy Marshall j. p. Stell has a
nose for distilleries. Saturday, be-
tween two o'clock in the morning and
six o'clock in the afternoon, he broke
~ three distilleries and arrested four
men against whom he hopes to prove
The charge of Illicit distilling.
i could just smell tina beer ever
where" said Deputy Stell. And he
was right. But it takes more than a
sense of smell to pull in a distiller
these days. The former chief of police
Of Raleigh knows that, and he has
the goods, too. characterized by Col
ieCtor Bailey as one of the very best
men in the service Mr.. Stell has made
an enviable record. He has dealt
with old-timers, men who have grown
grey haired in the business M never
been caught, and he has brought them
20 the bar for judgment. He does it
quietly. too. Their is hardly ever any
fuss, never any bloodshed. He locates
his game. plans his movements and
then pulls the whole thing off syste-
matiCally.
Il thought l was going to have
trouble last week." said Mr.. Stell yes
terday. II started into a house where
| had every reason to believe l could
find beer and the apparatus for max
ing booze. A young mn was stand
ing in the yard. 1t looked as if she
had just left the house. / told her
what / wanted. She said 1 could go
back and search the house. and gave
me the keys. She was smiling all
over her face, no more excited or
afraid than l am now. Just as we
reached the door she urned around,
still smiling and looked right straight
al me L don't know whether ! am
going to let you search this house
or not she said. Of course l told
her that the law would force her to
allow me. Law? she said,' the law?
neither l thought / was getting into
a trap. but she let me search the
house"
Deputy Stells operations began Sat
urday from Benson. With Deputy
Marshall George Moore, he went into
harnett county three miles northeast
OF Angler. Here the hunt started.
After nosing about a bit in the COM
munity he ran across a log house
built in a mans yard. He investigat-
ed and found a thirty-five gallon still
and all the apparatus Of booze max,
ing. And the n Of the stills
operation was unique.
In the log house was a pit of about
ten by twelve feet and here is where
the booze was manufactured. To take
care or the smoke a pipe was laid VI
TO a little shed beside the house where
a big boiler was placed. The boiler
was filled with clothes and a fire wa
gong on around it. The smoke from
the still came up to the boiler ant
was lost in the smoke Of the boiler.
That was a new game On the dep
sty marshals, but they got Rober
adams. who will be charged will
operating it.
Just one quarter of a mile from thi
other novel scheme. Here, as before
% pit In dimensions Of 12X1A feet wa
sunk into the ground ear a brancl
having its source in a small spring. !
pipe line was run from the branc'
twenty feet through the ground to tn
plt and in this way the water for tn
operations Of the still was secured
This still contained a sixty gallon out
nv and was located fifty yards froI
FISH were arrested by the deputy an
VIII he held responsible for the dl:
tillery.
coming into Wake county, the reVt
nue. men ran into another new stun
me usual pit vas there. n the al
paratus was there, an eighty gallo
sun but the distiller had bored dow
NO the ground within the pit an
mad struck water, making a splendi
"eil Tor securing water. The SID
OF the pit had been weather-boarde
ana apparently the still had been
operation in the same place for te
or hfteen a George billiard w;
arrested for this.
They are getting shrewder all IL
uno. said Deputy Stell.
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