Thursday night Sam Everett, alias Sam Roberson, broke into the warehouse of Biggs and Stalls and stole three barrels of molasses. Mr. Stalls did not find that the house had been robbed until early next morning when the only clue to the thief was a hammer, which Mr. Stalls knew belonged to Turner Williams. Upon inquiry he learned from Williams that the negro Everett had borrowed the hammer the night before, ostensibly to mend a cart. Upon this clue Mr. Stalls and Chief Page went out to Cedar Hill farm, about two miles from town, where they found one barrel of molasses near the house. Following a track to the woods they found the other barrel, also a lot of mixing apparatus. Thus Everett had not had the time to begin his work, preparations for the mixture showed plainly that he was working on a big scale and is evidently an experienced blockader. He was placed in jail, failing to give bond.
Everett will most likely be converted from a liquor-making farm hand to a road hand when the June term of the Superior Court convenes as they have three good counts on him, house breaking, larceny and attempting to manufacture liquor.
From The Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C., May 3, 1921.
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