Greensboro, March 18—Continuing his activities toward making “blockade boulevard,” the road from the Virginia line through Reidsville to Greensboro, as dry as a desert trail, after catching seven rum-runners, five automobiles and 190 gallons of whiskey Friday morning, Sheriff Sands of Rockingham county last night cast his net again, bringing up a negro auto bootlegger, his car and, as the sheriff expressed it in a telephone message received here, enough liquor to float the car, 60 gallons to be specific.
The sheriff has declared war on the blockade runners and his wily posse of sleuths refusing to be tricked by a “lookout” car traveling back and forth, Friday morning, after an all night vigil. When the pilot failed to lure the officers from ambush, and reported the coast clear, five cars sallied forth only to be pounced upon by the officers. Till Price, Sam Price and Will Patterson, Guilford countymen, and J.M. Riddle J.U. Foust, Millard Smith and J.G. Blue were arrested. The driver of the pilot car abandoned it and escaped.
Last night’s capture, Will Hariston, is a Greensboro negro.
From the front page of The Charlotte News, Sunday morning, March 19, 1922
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