The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1921-02-12
Egm Stills Are Destroyed in the
Mountains of>Kentucky With
out a Casualty.
MAKES INTERESTING STORY
although Numerous Shots Were Fired
nyRevenue Men and Mountaineers,
Not a Death Is Reported
Chase Leads. to Stills.

tiSt0H, hy.-ha1QS upon lnOou-
SHINE stills in the mountains of Ken
lucky have become bloodless, accord
ing to government agents who recent
~ conducted one of the most impor-
tant raids made in years.
Whether the Shooting eye" Of the
mountaineer or the secret service
agent has become dimmed or whether
the desire for less killing has reached
into the far mountain recesses is a
disputed point. but the fact remains
that IL revenue agents raided and de-
sfroyed eight large stills in Whitley
county fired numerous shots and We're
nred at numerous times. but, so far
as Is known, not a casualty. was re-
corded.
Standing in clumps of sparse shrub
berry on the top of knobs along Laurel
Fork, in Whitley county, sentries
posted apparently by moonshiners
watched the operations Of federal pro-
hibition officerssdurfng the recent SEN
sational raid in the South America"
section of Whitley county, according
to members Of the party. The raiders
from the office of Chief Field Deputy
u. G. Mcfarland were reticent about
the battle reported to have ragged about
the stills. "There wasn't thing In
it." they were unanimous in saying
I'VE Just went In there and destroyed
eight stills. There were lot of shots
fred, but how many Of them were
fred at us we don't know. That was
all there was to It,"
Number Of Shots Fired.
The raiders from the local Office
were Steven Cornet and Charles Win
frey, who were the leaders of the
raid; j.. 81. Reynolds and Joe Cava
naugh. They were accompanied by
Sheriff Renfro of Whitley county ant
seven deputies.
Steve :Cprnet, after some PERSIA
sion, told Of the raid. "We left VII
Harrisburg on the morning Of December
and went via Holden. Tenn, thu
nearest railroad point, into the sec
5dAeok whitley county known to thu
nA4lves as sSbhth Ameri<a,'" he said
4gRe hunted there for stills in the hol
lows 0f Laurel Fork and Olean Fork
sources of the Cumberland river. w
destroyed eight stills In all.
ssThe first still destroyed was on,
owned by Dewitt Gibson. We ar
rested the three Gibson boys withou
eriy trouble. They were at their home
I The next still we helIave belonged t,
q man named Williams The next tw
destroyed were owned by person
whose names we could not ascertain
We had no trouble the first day, al
though number of shots were fire.
In the distance. could not say pos
lively that the shots were fired at US
but think that possibly they were sig
mails to warn the countryside tina
raiders were about. We could Sc
men standing on the top of the knobs
where they could see. the road wine
Ing around the banks Of Laurel Forl
which, i believe. is the crookedes
stream IN the world. Sometimes It
hard to tell which way It runs.
Afhe second day we continued tn
search along Laurel Fork. 1t was 6
fhis time that the nearest to any res
frouble occurred. We left an old ma
named Parsons and another man
r,,arxd the mouth of a hollow while "
searched it. Just after we left tf
guards inountaineer popped out frol