Evening star., 1921-11-24
Find many. STILLS;
MAKE Is ARRESTS
U. S. Dry Agents SWoop Down
on Several Places in Raids
in Northern Virginia.

Fourteen thousand gallons Of mash
and whisky. "a fermentsrA 500 pounds
of meal. 1900 pounds Of ice. almost
half ton of sugar and Q number Of
stills. including ono OF 350.gallon ca
pacity, were among the oonhscated
items on the inventory Of Prohibition
Agent Linton Evans. who headed q
raiding party into northern Virginia
yesterday. conducting four. raids on
alleged manufacturers Of Illicit spirita
Fifteen were arrested at the various
scenes Of activity by the prohibition
agenta Slight resistance met the
raiding party of eleven men, who
gathered at Alexandria shortly be-
fore noon and swept tie country be.
tween noon and o'clock last night
in three large automobiles.
Take $500 Gallons OF Mash.
The first raid was on the Carter
farm. a short distance north OF Alex
andria. At this place. according to
the prohibition agents, q steam On.
an alleged still. A barn was the site
OF attack. Approximately $500 gal.
Ions of mash were confiscated and
destroyed on the spot. IL was said, and
the items of destruction are listed as
forty-two fermenters, twelve barrels
Of whisky, copper still. with cap
and worm and a steam boiler.
Five were arrested, charged with
operation Of an Illicit still and illegal
possession of intoxicating beverages.
Those arrested are: Wexford Miller.
forty-one. of Carter's farm; Lawrence
Butler. colored. and William Coleman.
and Floyd Davis of Green Valley. Va.
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The next stop was at the colored set
tlement at Halls Hill, about eight miles
north Of the Carter farm. Here four
were arrested. . largo quantity of whis-
ky was destroyed and approximately
five gallons held as evidence. Those ar
! rested are, seventy -eight-year.old Isaac
Gardner, colored; C. c. Clement, sixty
ent, thirty and twenty-five years old,
respectively, colored.
From the Halls Hill settlement the
raiders made their way to the home OF
Norman Harrell, at browns Bend
across the road from the Tucker farm.
Here Harrell was arrested on Charges
OF illegal possession OF twenty gallons
of ''moonshine," and II, F. Burke waa
held on a similar charge.
Constable Under Charges.
The agents then crossed the road to
| the ! uChcT ldEIu <AS IuCy dpPI IOdCACu
according to Evans, man on gal
! ! Looping horse was Just arriving. pre-
| sumably with the news of the pre-
ceding raids. John e. Payne, con.
stable. ran out to meet him. The
| raiders rode up, and Payne. 1t Is al
legged. ran away. Milton Eckstein OF
the local force. ran after him and
captured him. Payne and his brother
Harry E. Payne, both of Miners Hill
Va. were charged with operating &
! still and illegal possession of in.
toXicating beverages.
| At the Tucker farm a 800 -Rallor
still with worm and cap was de.
stroyed, together with q steam boiler
| and 1900 pounds Of ice and Got
pounds of sugar con1scated.
The final stop was at the Bantor
farm. There ]. w. Banton, residine
half a mile from the Tucker estate
| was arrested on q charge of operatina
| a still. CONVERSATIONS and distinctions
! included still and CAP, 1000 gailonl
| of mash. four oil stoves. Of which two
were destroyed; 500 pounds Of meal
and 500 pounds Of sugar.
Members Of RaidinE Party.
Agents participating in the raid
were called in from Richmond, Roa-
noke and LynchbuRg. The raiders
were Evans, Eckstein and r. r, Lips
comb Of the local ONCE, v. Williams
and #. w. Millions of Richmond, j, N
Wood Of Lynchburg, ]. c. Brown OF
Roanoke, Howard Smoot, state game
warden, and Deputies c. Owen, W, F.
Gray and Bruce Smith Of Arlington
county.