Six Stills, Mash Seized in New Hope, Salston, Aug. 18, 1923

Six Stills and Huge Amount of Mash Taken by Officials. . . Sheriff and the Prohibition Men Get Big Haul. . . Distillers Warn Each Other with Fox Horns and Bells as Men Arrive on the Scene

Sheriff Grant and his deputies had a big day yesterday getting six stills and 90 barrels of beer and mash.

With two deputies, Rose and Gra? And four prohibition officers from High Point, Sheriff Grant started early yesterday morning on the roundup. The stills were captured in Saulston and New Hope townships, four in New Hope and two in Salston.

Among them was about the finest still the sheriff says he has ever seen. It was a big copper affair with a capacity of 100 gallons, one of the biggest the local force has ever captured. It had 30 gallons of mash nearby. No arrests were made either there or at the other places.

As soon as the raiding parties would arrive within striking distance of the stills, the people around would give warning with fox horns, bells and other noise-making affairs. That was the reason the officers were unable to get any of the operators.

Among other things captured was 100 pounds of sugar at one place, 112 barrels of mash with one still, 28 barrels with another, and six with two others.

In the opinion of the sheriff it was the biggest haul that has ever been made in Wayne county. It is one of the biggest made recently in the state.

From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Aug. 18, 1923