Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-06-06
news OF ROCK HILL
Several Blind Tigers Arrested And
COnViC..el in Big Round Up.
WINTHROP CLOSES SESSION TODAY
Liquor Dealers Did Not Use Care IN
Selecting Their Patrons and Face
Charges in State and Federal Courts
Following Conviction in City Court
Other News Notes.
(By a Staff Correspondent.)

Following Conviction in City Court
Other News Notes.
(By Staff Correspondent.)
Rock Hill, June S-W. w. Rogers,
state constable working under COM
mission of Governor Harvey threw
fit into the underworld population of
Rock Hill, especially the blind tiger
element when he caused the arrest
here Friday ofssix persons charged
with selling and storing liquor and
issued warrants for others who SMELL
ed rat before the officers came ana
made q getaway. Federal Revenue
Officers Thorne and .Queenia of the
Federal Force, State Constable Hor-
ace Johnson, Constable Frank Allen
and the Rock Hill police assisted in
making the raid Friday which result
ed in the seizure of about so pints of
liquor in all; but Constable Rogers
deserves most of the credit for getting
the dope" on the tigers. Rogers, "a
ont-eyed man of. dapper appearance
blew into Rock Hill about couple of
weeks ago. He registered at local
hotel whose reputation is none too
good and making that place his head
quarters was soon on good terms with
practically every hootch hustler in the
city tits said that most of them
fairly ran over each other to sell him
liquor and that all he had TO do TO get
the liquor was to telephone for it and
it would be delivered to him. The.
largest amount of liquor was taken
from Frank Stokes, a white man who
operates pressing club on East Black
street Stokes had the stuff concealed
in an invisible closet and the officers
have not yet found the door to that
closet. Stokes had received an earfuI
of information from some friends thtt
raid was coming and it is said that he
had carefully painted his place and
built false back to the closet, one of
the smoothest pieces of work of sly
tigering that the officers had come in
Contact with in long time. Constable
Horace Johnson said today that the
raiders never did find the door lead
ing to the closet and the liquor was
found only after they had smashed in
q wall. About seventy-one pints of
moonshine liquor and four bottles of
case goods were taken from Stokes
who admitted his guilt and who told
Rogers that he had no hard feelings
since he was caught fair and square.
In recorders court Saturday morn
ing, Stokes was fined $500 in two
cases of selling and one of storing
liquor. julius Pride was fined SIS for
selling. Hazel Brown was convicted
of selling in two cases and fined 800.
George Kelly was fined $50 for selling
and Richard White was also fined $50
for selling. Two other defendants
arrested in the raid,i Will Fernandez
and Monroe Anderson were not tried
at Saturdays session. 1t is under
stood that all Of the defendants will
be tried i'm the state and Federal
courts.
Warrants were issued for several
other alleged tigers who "biew the
town" when they heard that the pro-
hibition officers were on their trail.
Today on Trade street where it is
said that good many tigers and
tough customers generally hang out
some of those who were to be seen
were talking in whispers of the work
ever the prohibition sleuths did not
succeed in getting all the blind tigers
of Rock Hill. A truthful citizen told
the correspondent this morning that
he bought ten pints Friday night Il
few hours after the raid right on Main
street and within 100 yards of where
more than seventy pints of that seized
was poured into the gutter. He and
his friends wanted the liquor he said
for a little party they had scheduled
fer Friday night.
Bad as Columbia.
Constable Rogers who engineered
the raid yesterday is quoted as
saying that blind tiger liquor flows
quite as freely in Rock Hill as it does
in Columbia and that women of the
underworld make Rock Hill just as
often as they do Columbia or Char
lesion or Greenvillc or Spartanburg.
II is quite likely that Rogers did not
show his full hand in the raid of
Friday which was the talk of the town
today.
Winthrop Closes Today.
Commencement exercises of Win
throp college will be concluded Tues
day evening. VIXEN diplomas will be
presented to the 1G5 members of the
graduating class and certificates will
, he awarded large number completing
special courses. A large number of
visitors. most of them relatives of
Winthrop students began coming TO
Rock Hill today for the annual com
| mcnCemcnt.
The exercises this year begin with
the annual sermon before the Young
| WOncns Christian association Sun
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