Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-11-09
The r.ignt Sort OF Judge.

A friend from Orange, Va, sends
US the following article from the Gull
pepper Exponent of recent date. Ii
shows that the right sort or judge or
magistrate will in due time discourage
the authoritative moonshiner:
"Moonshine" is fast getting to be a
thing of the past in Culpeper. And
that fact can truly be laid at the door
of Judge Alden Bell, the wet" man
who was elected mayor of Culpeper at
the election in June last. If you don't
believe this statement, just step into
tine mayors Office some morning be-
fore all the bootleggers have been put
in jail. For that's what is coming.
Just as sure as two and two make
four Il IS Just question of time
before bootlegger in Culpeper will
De as easy TO find as the proyerbial
needle in the hay stack was up there
the other morning-on business, not
as prisoner am glad to say. The
room was full of people
Court had not convened. Just the
same, as soon as | got into the room,
first dash out of the box, his honor
informed me that it would look bet
ter If | did not smoke in his court
room. In the course of ten minutes.
or so had gotten through with my
HI!GInRCS and started tn
mayor asked me not to hurry and to
remain, remarking that the court had
not convened yet. Considering my ex>
perience In regard to smoking, | was
afraid not to accept his honor's invi-
tation. And remain | did. am glad
did so. 1t enabled me to observe,
first hand, how Mayor Bell was pro-
ceeding to break up this whiskey bust
ness in Culpeper. Two gentlemen,
with automobiles, we're each fined
$4,000, sent to Jail for six months,
and their machines conhscated. Of
course they both appealed from the
decision, but it's dollars to doughnuts
that they will get the same dose when
they appear before the Circuit Court,
with Major E. H. Gibson as special
prosecutor for Prohibition Director
Harry B. Smith. Certainly, Mayor
Bell put it up to them. Another gen.
tleman contributed forty dollars to the
municipal till for essaying to drive an
auto after he had INDUCED in three or
four drinks of Culpeper "moonshine,"
during the performance of which he
broke down some ones fence in the
neighborhood of the ice factory. Prob
ably he was in that vicinity with the
idea that it would be good place to
cool off. He explained that his car
had a defective brake; that that was the
reason he ran into the fence. 1t is
likely that the car was like himself
had no brake on at all-was going
full tilt to any old place. At any rate
he cooled off in Jail that night, and
the next morning was separated from
his forty bucks. As came through
the potrals on my way out, looked
over to see if over the door there were
the words: leave all hope behind, We
who enter here" Just the day before
the one in which was in Court, a
well-known "cullud" gentleman of
Culpeper was deprived of fifty wagon
wheels for indulging in a Sunday af-
ternoon joy ride in his little tin go.cart
that is distinguished by its peculiar
green color. could cite numerous
other instances that would go to show
what rocky road the Culpeper boot
logger has got to travel from now on.
However, | will refrain for the pres