Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-02-08
WHISKY RAIDS IN
KENTUCKY MOUNTS
PROVE BL00DLESS.
EIGHT STILLS ARE DESTROYED
IN HILLS WITHOUT ONE CAS-.
UALTY-RESULTS OF RAIDS
MAKE INTERESTING STORY.

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, Lexington Ky--Roids ,mon moor.
shine stills IN the mountains or Kou.
tncky have becoma hroodlr.s accord.
ing TO government agents who rornnt.
Iy conducted one of tbo most imnor.
fsnt raids modo in vaors
Whether tho "sboottnr n,.or If tha
nountaIpper or tba secret service
pgent has hecomn din,mod ar y,.h.,tbor
the desire for less killing has rcocbad
into the far mountain recassns rs q
disputed point hpt the foct remoips
that u revenue agents raidcd and De.
stroyed eight large stills in Whitley
county f1red numerous shots and Wcr"
nred az numerous times, but SO far
ms Is known, not a casualty was re-
corded'
standing in clumps of sparse shrub
bery on the top Of knobs along Laurel
'forR' III Whitley county Sentr.eS
posted apparently by moonShinerS
watched me operations OF federal pro
hlpitioh ollIcerS during the recent sen
satlohal rald IN the south America"
section or Whitley county, according
10 members OF the party. The raiders
from the once or chief Field Deputy
u u Mcfarland were reticent about
the battIe reported to have ragged about
the SIMS. There wasn't thing In
IT, theY were unanimous IN saying.
we JUST went in there and destroyed
eight SUITS. There were lot of shots
hred' out now many OF them were
nFed at US we don't know. That was
gil there was TO IT,
Sg Number OF Shots Fired.
The raiders from the local ofice
were Steven Cornet and Charles Win. |
frey, who were the leaders of tha
raid: J. II REYNOLDS and loo Cavo.
naugh. They were accomnonied nv
Sheriff Renfro of Whitley comfy and
seven DEPUTIES.
Steve Cornet after Soma narsro.
sion, told of the raid. "Ws left WI |
Harrisburg on the morning of December |
2 and went via Holden Tom tho
nearest railroad point into tba 500
ton of Whitley county, known IN tha
natives as South America >" no said
eve hunted there for stills in tho mol.
lows of Laurel Fork and O,oan Fork
sources Of the Cumberland river Wa
DESTROYED eight stills IN oil
"The first still destroved was one
owned bv Dewitt Gihsnn Wo ar.
rested the thren Gibson hovs vi,hn,+
any trouble They were nj their homo
The next still we he,ievn he,oncod "a
a man named Williams Tho novt two
destroyed were owned nv persons
whose names we could not ascertain, |
We had no trouble the first dav nj.
though a number of shots were fired
I'm the distance. could not say posi-
lively that the shots were fired M Ms
but think that possibly they were sip.
mails to warn the countryside that
raiders were about We could sop
men standing on thp ton of thn knobs
where they could see the road wind
ing around the banks of .oure, Forl,
which believe, is the crookcdc,t
stream In the world, Sometimes If IL
hard to tell which wav If runs
"The second day we continued thn
search along Laurel Fork If wos ot
this time that the nearest ia any rnal
trouble occurred. We left an Old man
named Parsons and another man IA
guard the mouth Of hollow while we
searched II Inst after wn LOFT tho
guards mountaipcer nonnoa ont fran,
behind tree. fired several shots at
the guards with pistol and ran
Chase ..as +o c.uI.