Morehead City, Dec. 24—A wagon of hootch was this week captured by Chief of Police W.C. Piner when a little after 12 o’clock Monday night he caught H.C. Willis, well known citizen of Morehead City, driving a wagon up 14th street in which were three kegs and a number of jugs with “corn likker,” the total amount of which was about 40 gallons. The mule, wagon and driver were taken to the city hall and locked up for the night and on Tuesday the mule was turned over to its owner, Uncle Bennie Willis, father of the driver of booze wagon. At a preliminary hearing Tuesday before Judge James. R. Bell, Willis was released under a bond of $300 for his appearance at the January term of Superior Court.
From the front page of The New Bern Sun Journal, Dec. 24, 1921
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