Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-03-15
THREE MORE IRVINE
MEN BROUGHT DOWN
Federal Officers Get Busy After
Capture of Car Containing
Mconshine

-. hlHCdiQ Drought Cne pals Oh L OH
Hill, who were detected bringing
moonshine whisky into Irvine in an
automobile, to Richmond late Satur-
day. They are James Hines, known
as "Shorty" Hines, and Ambrose
! Young, and they will have a hearing
before U. S. Commissioner Warfielo
Bennett Wednesday. At the same
time Estill Wallace, who owned the
car in which the booze was being
transported, will have hearing. He
is charged with the prohibition Of
fense of transporting whisky, and is
liable to prosecution and to have his
car seized and sold Mr.. Bennett said
that the men say they hired young
Wallace, who is son of Tom Wal
lace to drive the car for them.
Tom Hill, who remained in the car
and was caught, had his hearing be-
fore Commissioner Bennett Saturday
and was released under $500 bond to
await trial in federal court at the
April term.
The officers who made the arrests
say that Hill and his friends have
been bootlegging whisky in Irvine.
The officers say the men have been
buying it out in the hills from moon
sinners and bringing it to town and
selling it at a good profit. Marshal
Philpott did some fine detective work
in this instance, however, and spotted
the men and the car with the goods,
so cleverly that he is said to have
the most complete proof that he's yet
been obtained in case of this kind.
About three gallons of moonshinG
whisky is said to have been captured.
After he had investigated the cases
himself, Chief Deputy Collector U. G..
Mcfarland, from the Lexington Of
flee. detailed Deputies Samuels, Kin
caid and Williams to the case, and
they are looking into all angles of the
affair. They were in Richmond late
Saturday.
Mcfarland Discusses Sinners
In this connection, Mr.. Mcfarland
gave Lexington paper the other day
very clever description of the traits
of the festive Moonshiner, as he
found him. Mcfarland has had wide
experience in hunting them down, and
is having just a little more of it now
than ever before. .,..... .-...
During the ten years that McFar-
land has been "raider' be has cap
tured between 500 and 900 moon
sinners, has been shot thru the breast
as the result of one encounter and has
been shot at so many times that he
cannot recall all the incidents. F,,-I
Hiding in a hollow near a branch
far away from any residence, the
shrewd mountaineer m6onshfneri sill
emily does his work. The boiling ket-
tie and the dripping "white mule"
constitute his company while he labors
and he is happy.
Altho mOonshiners are as a rule as
ignorant as it is possible to be, they
are all foxy and seem to have the in
herent art Of making their escape and
concealing their still. 1t is in the
manner in which they hide the still
that their extreme shrewdness is
evidenced.
Sometimes the smoke from the dis
tillery-the bane of the moonshiner's
.existence-is piped a considerable dis
.tance to coneal the base of operations.
In one instance that has come to Mr.
MeFarIand's attention, the smoke was
carried into a beech tree and it seep-
ed out slowly that it was invisible
from a public highway only 800 yards
away. .
Nobody knows the menace of
footpath as well as does the man who
makes his living out of being able to
effectively secrete himself. Never does
a path lead directly to still. On. the
other hand, the moonshiner often de-
ploys for miles around to evade pur-
suit. He will walk for an hour when
he could reach his destination in
few minutes.
MOonshiners, are of various types.
There are those who are as submis-
sive as lambs and who arc willing to
.'..squep on their condfederates if it
will tend to Tighten their own SEN
tcnceS.
But this class is in minority.
Most of them are silent, never speak
ing unless spoken to and then not if
it will assist in catching others in the
net of the law. Then there are others
who are ferocious as lions. They
swear they will never be taken alive
and generally make good, altho most
of them die with their "boots on"
Despite his ignorance, the moon
sinner is not superstitious. He could
uI 6Iuo Uns s!q uni o. eIn1 \! eYem
the light of the moon, or even bet
ter, in the dark of the moon. But he
doesn't Whenever he feels he needs
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