The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-14

Cling to maintain home in the face
OF the deadly enmity and desperate
aggression OF whiskey." What person
with any sort of heart in his body
does not sympathizo with and want
to help here"
In the same paper WAS dispatch
as follows. Sheriff E. Z Dudley and
his deputies discovered near BARRIERS
Landing tPitt county, last night eight
barrels of rnolasses and nearby three
stills. There was ample preparation
for making monkey rum. BARRIERS
! Landing is three miles from Green
vile.
On file also in the Pitt county clip
/ pings is an extended article relating
4 an unusual function al the closing OF
I Pitt county superior court. where cit
liens of Pitt county living in the
II neig hborhood of stokes, near the
! Martin and Beaufort borders, pre-
scented Sheriff Dudley with hand
/ some gold watch and chain in testi-
1 mony of his great service in break
i ing Up bookkeeping anc moonshining
/ in their community. and the con-
gratulatory remarks by the judge and
i members of tho bar.
\ gentleman from Pitt county says
/ that the sheriff of Pitt county and
i his deputies were absolutely. alert in
in destroying stills and capturing
| criminals but il was Impossible for
him or any other sheriff to effectuaiiy
i police the distant border Of big
! county, unless the equally distant bor-
ders of the other counties sincerely
co-operated. and even this was not
possible unless the citizens OF those
& isolated communities lent helping
~ n In inc nd m
I in creating public sentiment against
law breaking. He also said that
Fountain, was near the borders of
Wilson and Edgecombe counties just
i as was Stokes at another extreme of
4 the SouiUg near the borders of Martin
and Beauferd, and until all the best
ycitixens all over each county. got
I law and order move on them, it was
useless to expect officers TO do the
7Trshy sica!Iy Impossible. -.
: l. Columbus county Washington,
Il ID. C.---Alettef to- Congressman God
= win from Internal, Revenue Coiiee-
/, tor Roper says. that since the pub
lieation in the Raleigh News and OBJ
server OF the complaint about liquor
conditions at Clarcdon, Columbus
county there have. been no violations
of the law there"
PATHETIC HOMICIDE
Il Blake county--"Charged with kill
/; ing his father while the latter was
said to be in drunken condition in
4 defense OF his mother and helpless
,, brothers and sisters, Edward Luil, IS
years of age is held without bail al
Moreanton following an inquest"
Durham county Clifton Shabby,
is. youngest yougstcr ever arrested
in Durham county for blockading is
n out on bond. after being In jail one
pigIf then turned nvar tina 5r,,ra
:, nile court. He was the only prison
]. err taken by Deputy Sheriffs Cat Bel
win, Joe P1eants and Lonnie Morgan
In raid on still near the Orange
y county line. Deputy Peasants and
4 Morgan -rafdet forty gallon still
!, near the old reservoir west of the city
i OF Durham last night, and another
!. near the Orange line. Quantities OF
beer. was destroyed but no one was
captured"
Franklin county--"CharIie and
: VIII Driver, very young white men
found guilty in federal court, were
sentenced by Judge Ccnnor for two
! years in Atlanta penitentiary for
making blockade liquor. They had a
big run on when caught at their home
making alleged christmas cheer"
J. r. Stephenson. prominent young
Panther Branch citizen, Wake coun-
Y ty, found guilty of Illicit dis,illinr,
got year and day and 5000 fine.
Three stills. were found on his place
and quantities of malt, etc, in his
nome, Some OF his monkey rum brew
was found in an auto in the yard.
, all being confiscated by the Officers.
His prominence in his section had
4 little influence over Judge Conner,
Whn gave the above dose of proven
! tion,"
j Hcke county-"witn only his nose
nbove the. water, federal prohibition
agents canturod a b'ocknder near a
mig sill 10 miles from vass "a Hnkn
county 1t was the daddy rabbit still
OF the section with steam boiler and
up-tn-date ri@ fer conpleta and fast
business Four white ~rlen were at
the still, all broke and ran, three
nelng castnred in the swamp one
having sought an espionage Sesame
by hiding all, bpt his nose unaer
water. His breathing. apparatus got
ing out of whack, Sfatal bronchial
snoon. reached the Officer alert car"
! Rnhespn chunty-"Fev enue officers
captured three stills and nero own
s.ers Thursday night Two other stills
I We're captured in n swami near May
ton. but the nrorri- tors had fled"
Ell Paso Texas---lIigh point II r.
I Dec. 2o.~-Mrs- Sarah Fsmh,nr receiv.
1 Cd message today announcing ma
death OF her son. Private Fleer Err
bier who was killed restc.,aev in a
! frht with smugelers and q tronn ~
4 TINTED states cavalry rear py paso
the s'nugnlers trying to get linupr
ncrosS the border. rhe guard vas
j surprised by the a.ta TX If the s,a,,r-
sfsleg>s tls s,s,aljeda WI Ia rite axsa'...,srsss
\ ,Tats Emhler .feil after the tjsst sel-&
lcy ara me body OF Mexican Was
I FOUND in the brush Alongside the
/ abandoned liquor
Hnntlnstcn. West Va .,~-Moonshfn-
fers ia Calhoun county hgflt . stonk.
! ade around their slill, placing harbed
wire sntanglements ia front. Ins,aa
tney had supnlies of aDannition and.
stins t fsssiaers came White they were,
away thereby escaping With their Myes
and with 5S gallons OF moonahine
| liquor and fine still.
Georgia, Aflanta--.-hief Of polfee
Beavers. after careful Investigation 81
records Of police blptters the past two
months. says That automobile Acct,