Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-06-25

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control election Of Tuesday in whicT,
f'alelgh and Wa<e county voted for
county liquor control and liquor stores
the report has been GU. mt that both
me city police department and sh
III office were going to make a drive
and crack down" on the bootlegger.,
VINO nave been doing business in the
city and county. WA5n ASKED if this
report was correct, Chief Pierce said
we are going to colli4,ue to keel
AFTER bootleggers and 10 arrest them
ana convict them Whichever possible
just as we have been in the past. We
are also going to cooperate 100 per
cent with the new county LIQUOR con-
troll program and the county ARC
BOARD and do evervlaing we can to
nelp eradicate bootlegglng in Raleigh.
we are working On some plans nov
which we hope will be effective. but
which we, of course, callnot reveal.
However, it is ~lcrn difficult t. an
ever either to make arrests for boot
legglng or to secure convictions. as
result of several changes made IT.
the enforcement laws by the 1887 :yon-
eral assembly.
One of these is that it is now legal
lor any one to transport one gallon,
TWO quarts or eight pints in a car.
package or in any manner, thus max
ing it almost impossible to arrest boot
leggers for transporting liquor, since
they are usually careful not to have
more than the permitted amount with
them
absolutely no limit on the amount of
liquor person may have in his home,
with the result that the police must
prove it is possessed for the purpose
OF resale to get a conviction.
Another change made in the en-
forcement law that makes it difficult
to arrest bootleggers, is that the 1897
law requires an affidavit before a
search warrant can be issued or ser
we'd and stipulates that any evidence
found without such a search warrant
or affidavit cannot be used in prose-
cutting an offender The law also re-
quires that the officers must read the
search warrant, whenever requested,
before being admitted or before fore
ing their way into any place suspect
ed of being a bootlegging joint. This
gives the bootleggers plenty of time
to dispose of any liquor which might
be used as evidence.
But we are going ahead and do
the lest we can and make as many
arrests as we can, regardless of these
loopholes in the law"
When asked if he and his deputies
were going to make any extra effort
to "dry up" Wake county, now that it
had voted for liquor control and Ii
quor stores, Sheriff Numa F. Turner
Said
"I wish some one would tell me
how we can dry up the county any
with the laws as they are. For under
the new laws, as l understand them,
our officers cannot swear out a
search warrant on their own infor-
nation and belief, must get some cit
izen to make an affidavit first-and it
is just about impossible to get any
one to do that. Then, it is now per-
fectly legal for any one to transport
as much as eight pints per person in
car, on foot or any other way, SO
that it is Necessary to catch a boot
logger with more than eight pints in
order to get him for transporting
Thus the law is all on the side Of the
bootlegger and against the officers
but we are going to continue to do the
best we can to enforce the law and
get the bootleggers.'