Oxford, June 28—The Granville county officers have been hot on the trial of the illicit stills this week, capturing a total of seven since Monday morning. Deputies M.C, Klapp and E.N. Bragg are making Granville county an unsafe place for the manufacture of bootleg whiskey. The stills captured this week are as follows:
Deputy M.C. Klapp captured a 50-gallon still this morning in the Tar River section of the county and destroyed about 800 gallons of beer. Everything was in readiness to begin work.
Friday M.C. Klapp and E.N. Bragg found a small steamer hid out near Knap-of Reeds.
Thursday Officers Clapp and Bragg captured a steamer of about 75 gallons per day capacity, one 60-gallon still in the making, tools, a number of tubs and containers for whiskey, and destroyed over 1,000 gallons of beer near Olive Grove colored church. They also got nine bushels of meal and about one-half a sack of malt. The officers stated that the plant was not in operation, but they attributed the reason for this to the fact that there were services at the church.
Yesterday the same two officers captured a complete 60-gallon copper still and destroyed 600 gallons of beer near Providence.
Monday Officers Klapp and Bragg captured two stills, one steamer of about 200 gallons per day capacity and destroyed about 800 gallons of beer near Knap-of-Reeds. the officers stated from the appearance of things, the parties had just completed a run and had “mashed-back.” The other one was an old government still of about 60 gallons capacity, found hit out near Pocomoke.
From the amount of stills captured, it appears that if the officers had been on vacation, Granville county would have had an oversupply of “white lightning.”
From page 2 of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday, June 29, 1924
Deputy’s last name spelled Clapp in headline and Clapp and Klapp in article.
Knap in the name of a location refers to the crest of a hill.
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