Scotland Neck, March 7—Sheriff Herbert Johnson, Chief of Police C.T. Lawrence, and W.E. Woodfin, a federal prohibition officer, raided the premises of Foy Devereaux, who lives at Pollock’s Ferry, and found secreted in an old barn 50 gallons of mash, several measuring pots, and a number of liquor containers.
The mash was poured on the ground and was later drunk by the hogs on the farm, while the containers and measuring pots were held as evidence to assist in the conviction of the negro distiller. A thorough search was made for the still, but it could not be located.
When the officers came back from their search for the still they found the hogs which had partaken of the mash, hilariously drunk. Some were pawing the earth, and some were endeavoring to kill their fellow hogs. In fact, those who saw them (words obscured) the swine were behaving much in the same manner as humans when they have partaken too freely of fire-water.
The negro was taken to Weldon where he will be tried before a federal prohibition commissioner.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, March 8, 1924
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