The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-10-20
Folks in North Carolina Have
Taught Blind Tiger Keepers
That Way of Transgressor
Is Hard When Trans
gressor Is Caught.
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE rs
ACTIVELY ON JOB
Judge S. D. Weakley, of Ala
bama, Is Working on Bill
That, If Passed, Will Pro-
habit Liquor Delivery In the
State.
BY r l.. DAVIS.


Raleigh. y. c.. Oct. l9.-The follow
Ing goes to show how we treat the
blind tigers in North Carolina They
have long since learned in this State
that the way OF the transgresso1 Is
hard. Durham is situated within
, thirty miles of the Virginia line, and.
therefore. 1t is easy for these lawless
Characters to run across the line, load
their automobiles up with liquor, and
come back under the cover otrdark
ness. After Virginia goes dry, the
first of next month. the situation OF
Durham will be altogether different
l will also state that we are prepar-
ing TO go before our next General
Assembly to secure legislation to pro-
hibit the delivery OF all liquor within
the State, TO stop the selling ana
manufacturing OF wine. to prohibit
the sale of all cider containing one
or two and one-half per cent OF alco-
hol; TO prohibit the clubs from keep
ing or storing liquor; to prohibit the
advertising OF liquor in anv form. and
to limit the amount of liquor in ones
possession for any purposes to one.
half gallon. and in other respects to
tone up and strengthen our position
for prohibition laws The political
primaries are now virtually over and,
with few exceptions we now have
personnel of the General Assembly
which looks very encouraging for TIL.
passage of our measures
The Anti-Saloon League OF North
Carolina is on the Job. and we are
satisfied that by CONF arison. YOU VII
always find her in the vanguard when
it comes 70 the matter OF the exter-
mination OF the beverage LIQUOR traf-
flc. ] forgot TO state that Judge S d
WeakiCy. of Alabama, has been work
ing on our bill for more than thirty
days. and the first draft Of II has al
ready been submitted to our houd-
quarters committee.
Is Typical Case
The following is typical II comes
from Durham:
One hundred and twenty months
in road sentences and $500 in fines
were imposed In Recorders Court In
the wholesale whiskey raid of the
forty-five warrants issued only one
! failed to offer evidence sufficient for
conviction"
This also comes from Durham:
"A mock vegetable peddler. travel
ing in q buggy laden with punched
onions cabbage. carrots and an as
sortment of fresh garden truck. was
the ingenious dragnet that netted n
wholesale blind tiger raid in the
city. Forty-tive warrants were issued
under the whiskey trafficking act and
thirty-four defendants were dumped
into the !ail-house. Recorder Paul
G.~hAm and Prosecuting Attorney
James W. Barbee held an an-day ST.
ting Seventeen unhroken convictions,
aggregating sentences Of eighty-tw"
months on the county roads, were
written on the records
Is Oeveriy Designed.
The ingenuity of Jim Barbee in de-
visine the unique roundup and the UNI
detected execution of the plans OF ],
A. Wagstaff. a detective of Charlotte.
were responsible for the trapping go
cleyerlv designed. \ black horse
hitched to a rickety buggy was fur
nished the 'peddler" and some twenty
days were consumed In drumming the
whiskey-ridden districts The detec-
tive was paid 50 so a day and the city
betrayed the expenses OF fresh sup
plies of vegetables and other Costs
incident 20 the trips He would pe1dle
in suspected areas. and when his sales
had been made he would inquire
where he could get a drink or n half
pint OF the 'embalming fluid Nancy
Rain, negress, alone had faltering
faith In the detectives operations and
inquired; Say. man, YOU amt no
protector" are vou?'
The display OF bottles was veri-
table apothecary shop in the Record
ers Court. From Nancy Batn's
pickle bottle dram to Orange drips
table sauce were added thirty seven
distinct varieties. The ingenuity Of
the alleged negro hftnd tigers was
alone outdistanced by the dragnet.
Recorder Graham observed TIE rip
Pile manned and the rheumatic AS
pleas of alienation from court sem
fences. Judgments called from ZEN
fences ranging from eighteen months
road-toil 10 a fine OF $50 and costs"