Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-12-10
STILL GETTING THE BOOZE.

STILL GETTING THE BOOZE.
Five Men, Three Autos and 1O7 Gall
Ions Liquor Hayc Been Taken.
Oconee's sheriff, rural policemen,
special officers and the U. s. revenue
service mon have been both busy and
lucky IN the last few days, as is evil
denced by the following facts:
Five Men, Two Cars, Liquor.
Sunday morning last. about 2
o'clock and about miles up the
new public road on the old South-
ern rcadbed, near Westminster,
Sheriff Alexander. Rural Policeman
Mitchell, Special Officer B, r. Moss
| and Policemen Willis and Harris, of
Westminster, captured five men, two
! buick cars and 67 gallons Of contra
band liquor. The aentire outfit was
taken and brought to the Oconee
jail, the prisoners being lodged In
cells, the liquor locked up in the
"ware-room," and the autos proper-
~ housed. The men captured In this
raid on the road were A. w. Gold
smith, Vance Wynn, r. B. Rosamond,
James Merritt and A. ". Ballew.
The outfit is evidently Greenville
one,. and 1t Is supposed that the
City to relieve q thirst that Is said
to be so great in that section of our
country that liquor will bring almost
any price asked. Goldsmith and
Merritt made bond Monday, the
former IN the sum Of $500 for his
appearance in the State Court, the
latter giving bond in the sum Of
| $1,000 for appearance in Federal
Court. The other three of the
party are still In Jail. The two cars
taken are in good shape. One Ia
| five-passenger car, the other q
| seven passenger.
Ono Hup, Two Men, 40 Gallons.
Early Tuesday morning Rural
Policeman Mitchell hove in sight of
the Oconee jail driving splendid
little Hupmobile of the runabout
type, and it gave evidence that it
had been run about as much
as the law allows--and' then some.
This car was captured at 4 o'clock
at the railway crossing Just above
it were Sheriff Alexander, Deputy
Merrick, officers Moss and Mitchell.
The occupants of the car were Waco
Stegall, Of Pickens county, and an
other man who gave his name as
George Smith, Of. Greenville.
Smith" later, finding out that he
might be prosecuted IA little fur
l.thersl he ma In lined the fctitini,ss
name gave kiB iSa All Se6f gV syfssS
cuse. The two men had with thenf8 s.
three 10-gallon kegs and one 5-gal-
lon keg Of liquor locked up In tile
rear of the little Hup, which has
very conveniently arranged storage
apartment capable Of holding three
n IN n
kegs. This place was securely pad
locked, and stegall stated that spa
has the key or I'd open 1t in
minute for you" Sheriff Alexander,
however, said that he didn't give
rap who had the key--or words to
that effect-and he promptly Dust
ed" the lock, and there before the
| officers lay the four kegs, each as
snug as bug in rug in the special
ly provided quarters at the back of
the Hup--and each keg so full OF
"hell-fire and damnation" that ono
couldn't even hear it slosh about
little bit. Both Stegall and Syracuse
waived preliminary hearings and
are in the Oconee Jail.
Some Six Thousand Dollars.
Counting the value Of the three
cars and the price at which the
liquor would have retailed, ac-
cording to late Greenville quota
tions," the outfits capture will set
the two crowds back something like
$6,000-and then on top Of this will
come whatever the Court may give
the prisoners, and we hope the
Courts will be very liberal in the
matter of-months when 1t comes to
dealing them out So far as we
know there will be lots of time in
the future, as we have no faith what
ever in this talk about time coming
to an end next year. Courts might
as well be generous in giving out
months to law-breakers. There's no
scarcity Of time now, and nothing to
indicate shortage in the future.
| Large quantities of liquor were
poured into the street in front Of
the Jail yesterday, and quite few
took occasion to see the pouring. 1t
was we'll dOne--and the liquor, 1t
was found, would burn--on the
ground, we mean. Doubtless inside
fellow, too, but this was not in
yastigatad