Thursday, November 14, 2019

Drunken Men Force Widow From Her Home, Nov. 14, 1919

From The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Nov. 14, 1919

Monkey Rum Makes Bad Men Over at Mamie

Reports of wild doings as a result of home made Monkey Rum come from Mamie, which is near Powells Point in Currituck county.

Mrs. Lily Gray, a widow living alone with two children, was run out of her cottage by a crowd of drunken men Saturday night. The woman fled barefooted and in her night clothes to the home of Truxton Sykes, a Negro, where she took refuge for the night.

Under the influence of home-made liquor, a gang of white men have been spreading terror in that locality lately. A number of crude stills are reported in operation in the neighborhood.

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