From the March 2,
1922 issue of the Rockingham
Post-Dispatch
Tom Shephard of
Steele’s township, white, was given a hearing before Squires Mullis and Barrett
on Wednesday of last week on charge of keeping alcohol for sale. He was bound
over to April 10th term of Court. J. Chesley Sedberry defended him.
It seems that
Constable T.B. Andrews and John Jarrell raided his place January 27th,
and according to their statement found in the “commissary” a broken five-gallon
jug that Shephard had broken to destroy evidence, and from it was pouring
whiskey; and in a closet a broken jug that his wife had doctored. About three
quarters of a mile from the house, still on Shephard’s land, they found a large
still that evidently had been run a night or so previous. Three barrels of beer
were found also.
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