The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-01-03
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you could look at this pile Just ready
10 file from last nights mail.
Officers and citizens have sure got
tina bootleggers and moonshiners on
the run, if local reports of catching
them count FOR anything -
Director Mebane and Mr. Holleuan
have. cause. 10 feel good over resul. 8
OF their hard work Tor little over
one short month. Not7onty have they
succeeded in building up a compact
working organiZa ton in. large state.
many parts. Of which are Inaccessible,
but they Or. something have been the
cause OF this universal chase. after
liquor lawlesSneS
In all the cities now the local
judges are giving. bootleggers fits and
stirring up the police in those cities
where they sadly needed it In some
arlette, for example
tho city commissioner took q hand,
declaring that the way che local court
and police were handling the liquor
violations was q disgrace. And now
Charlotte finds. there was plenty OF
reason for the omniSsioIlsr5' and
mayor taking band. for the report
Of the city court for. the w hole month
oi. November shows only seven arrests
Tor. Iiqdor pioia tions..
In ~ tnston- Salerl the violations OF
law We're there all right, bart the Pc
4 lice blottor for November snow ed
about as idcai state OF dr5ne IS as Wa
: that Of Charlotte. Bur a Dig mass
/ meeting of indignant citizens was held
there three 4sFeks ago. where hot
speeches were made by leading citi-
zens. resulting In ire unanimous
ABnnfinn nf "a TeSalttiap All lxx,
the Ministerial ass>sc lation OF the city,
reciting bad sta.e Of affairs and de-
HaHdiag that the city officials break
Up n. alarming state al, .i2wlessness.
THIS wave QI local citizenS' demands
% their courts ami law officers has
reached many other towns and coun-
ties and people everywhere are wax
ins up to the fact that even murder
would become daily affair were
there no one Interested enough in
/ having each particular case ferreted
out and prosecuted and the offender
punished.
Ashesine seems to be one of the
tards cities in this particular. for il
seems that they were asleep on the
law even ut. Christmas. Greensboro,
always alive to prosecuting bootleg
Seis, did not have a single arrest;
and yet the following from Ashevile;
/ in the clippings sent Director Mebane,
, shows how completely. IL slowly, the
law enforcement publicity insistence
! he has made part of the cafiIpaign
for w0rf9 prohibition ana home law
enforcement Is permeating the state:
a sheyiile, Deed 27.--'~rhis selling of
whfskey on the stree s of the city ana
in Nould-be saioons must be stopped
said Judge Wells in Police court ter
trying ten men who had been arrested
for drunkenness on christmas day.
Each one of the men told the jndge
that they had bought their wfiskay
on the streets OF Asheviile, but nor
ono or them Gould tell the court from
whom he secured his liquor, SOME or
them even forgetting the color OF THE
bootiegger who relieved him Of a
Weeks wages for. pint of wriIskey
or the piiores1 variety
From what the city judge srtsnnated,
~ oce6dings W. be started 1T once. By
which. a bomb is expected !. to he
shfcwn. into the camp or st.rs bodf-
+sss-w III e.nA Aeen feported that pro
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