The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-01-21
Eight Stills Are Destroyed in the
Mountains of Kentucky With
out a Casualty,
MAKES INTERESTING STORY
Although Numerous Shots Were Fired
\ by Revenue Men and Mountaineers,
Not a Death lie Reported
: Chase Leads TO Stills.

Lexington, Ky.-Raids upon moon
shine stills in the mountains of Ken
lucky have become bioOdless, accord
ing to government agents who recent
by 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
I;nto the far mountain recesses is
disputed point, but the fact remains
that II revenue agents raided and de-
stroyed eight large stills in Whitley
county, fired numerous shots and were
fired 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, sentrles
posted apparently by moonshiners
watched the operations Of federal pro-
hibition officers during 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. @. Mcfarland were retlcent about
the battle reported to have ragged about
the stills. "There wasn't thing In
It." they we're unanimous in saying
1--WE Just went in there and destroyed
eIgl 8 stills. There were lot Of shots
fired, but how many Of them were
Ared at us we don't know. That wa.
oil there was to t."
Number Of Shots Fired.
The raiders from the local Office
were Steven Cornet and Charles Win
frey, who were the leaders of thu
raid; J. H. Reynolds and Joe Cava
naugh. They were accompanied b!
Sheriff Renfro of Whitley county AM
seven deputies.
Steve Cornet, after some persua
sion, told of the raid. "We left VII
liamsbnrg on the morning Of Decembe
B and went via Holden, Tenn, III
nearest railroad point, into the sec
hon Of Whitley county. known TO tn
natives as South. America" he sale
1--WE hunted there for stills in the no
lows of Laurel Fork and 0lean Forl
sources of the Cumberland river. w
destroyed eight stills in all.
'The first still destroyed was on
owned by Dewitt Gibson. We al
rested the three Gibson boys withor
Eny trouble. They were at their hom'
The next still we believe belonged
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, a
though number OF. shots were fire
In the distance. i could not say pos
lively that the shots we're fired at u
but think that possibly they were ST
mails to warn the countryside thi
raiders were about. We could 81
men standing on the top Of the knob
where they could see the road win
lng around the banks of Laurel For
which, / believe, is the crookede
stream In the world. Sometimes II
hard to tell which way I runs.
) THE second day we continued u
search along Laurel Fork. 1t was
this time that the nearest to any re
trouble occurred. We left an old mi
named Parsons and another man
guard the mouth Of a hollow while '
searched II. Just after we left I
guards a mountaineer popped out fro