Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1924-11-14
LOOKING ALONG THE LIQUOR LINES

LOOKING ALONG The LlQuUk LINZ
James Hahn's legitimate vocation y .
until recently that OF mail carrier 2
one of Uncle Sans mountain divisions
After delivering TIE daily pouch s
postals. catalogs and Letters 70 me pos
offices in Poweil's Fort, Jim, SO II
alleged, operated still' 1asmohst
from a wash boiler. Jeems jag pro
Queer was spied out upon time by I
lad named Cave. And then Inc
Carriers trouble started. He accused
the lad Of having told OF the iiiici'
plant and punctured the accusation
with sundrv smacks. Naturally the
bow got mad. Got so mad that ne swore
out warrant for Jim, charging assault
and battery.
The Sheriff went to the Hahn home
TO make the arrest. With little trouble
he found Jeems. A little more trouble
and he found the still along a Wen
beaten path from the mash barrel 10
the domicile. Jim said it wasn't MS
still. The Jury said it was. James
may never carry the mail again. II ne
does if will be after serving thirty days
in iail. He was also fined 5000.
LoRING KELLER
Pending the beginning OF a year
sentence for violating the dry laws,
Joe Rosenberger got dry himself. So
dry, he felt that his epiglottis need
ed considerable irrigating. Joe, SO the
evidence showed, solicited Lorlng
Keller youth, who also loved a little
liquor, to go TO moonshiner
habitat and get him five gallons OF
lethyl and liquid loquacity. doe hesi-
tated in going for the liquor because
he was already waiting to serve ms
State for prior violations OF the law. Id
justification for his act, Keller plead
the persuasive eloquence OF Joe IN
soliciting him to make the trip. lie,
likewise, plead youth as mitigating
circumstance. The Judge heard the
case. The Judge also fixed Loring
at three months on The
state road and fifty dollars fine.
WILLIAM PROPHET
William Prophet had two jugs in an
outbnilding on his premises in New
Market. Save for the odor of the "oh
be joyful" which they once held, the
jugs were empty. That Prophet is
not without honor, save in his own
country" was verified when it was
suggested to officers that probably this
Prophet was violating the liquor laws.
The jugs which had evidently clothed
innumerable jags were unearthed.
Sixty steps from Williams home an
untouched quart of tonsil lotion was
found. 1t was decided that there was
criminal affinity twixt the empty jugs
and the full bottle. And so Williams
became entangled with the law. Before
the Judge, on Wednesday, he entered
a plea of guilty and plead inadvertent
violation of the souse sections of the
Virginia code. Adyertently Judge
fixed a fine of fifty dollars and
suspended thirty day Jail sentence.
Moral. Rinse well the jugs after using
and hide no liquor within the curtilage.
GROVER PRICE
Grover had little still
No larger than a pail
The Sheriff found it in the brush.
An d Grover went to jail.
1t was just little two and half
gallon still. Family size, unless the
family was too large. Grover Price,
who lies west of the New Market
depot, was the alleged owner of the
cussed contrivance and when officers
seized the still they also seized Grover.
Growers identity indicates a sur name
hitched on him because of admiration
Tor certain Democratic president who
gave birth to the ''innocuous desue-
tude" expression. However there was
nothing innocuous in the charge
against Grover, for he plead guilty.
Neither was there desuetude on the
part of the Court when the same
Grover was handed a so day Jail
sentence and fifty dollar fine.
Grover was beyond the pale of suspen-
ded sentences and he will eat with the
Sheriff for month. 1t was also alleg-
ed that Grover had about two gallons
OF thorax torture in his garage.
6 MONTHS AND $50 FINE.
VIM. Click, who was shot by Deputy
Sheriff Mckinley Ryman, while fleeing
from still in operation, plead guilty
and was fined fifty dollars and given 9
six months road sentence. He wa:
bailed to appear at the January tern
of Conrt when it will be determined
whether he is physically able to begir
the road sentence.
NOTHING IN THE CHARGE.
The Indictment against Perry Mar
shall, charged with violating the pro
hibition laws, was, on motion of thu
Commonwealth Attorney, stricken
from the docket. An investigation dis
closed that there was nothing in thu
charge and that the defendant was ths
victim of misrepresentation on the par
of prosecuting witness.
NOT GUILTY.
Perry Richardson.
Arthur Biller.
DISMISSED.
Perry Marshall.
Richard Burner.
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