Friday afternoon Officers Buren Dedmon and Nelson Lattimore uncovered what was apparently a big retail liquor center several miles from Cherryville and just across the Gaston county line in Cleveland county. As a result of the raid around two or three gallons of corn whiskey and several hundred empty containers were found. Following the raid C.J. Icard, apparently about 50 years of age and near whose home the find was made, was arrested, and in recorder’s court Saturday morning was sentenced to 12 months on the county roads, the direct evidence being through another defendant who testified that he had purchased liquor from Icard on two occasions.
Officers say there have been reports of liquor transactions at Icard’s and following the direct information the two deputies visited the place with a search warrant. According to their testimony Icard told them that there was no liquor on the place, but after a search they found small quantities of liquor in different containers hid in two outhouses. Several neat little pint jugs were full, while larger jugs contained only small quantity. One of the outbuildings was an old dwelling, the officers testified, and was only a few feet from the house where Icard and his family lived, and the other was a granary. Among the empty containers the officers testified to finding were “about two or three hundred fruit jars” in a large dry goods box in one of the outbuildings. His counsel indicated that an appeal might be made when he had an ample time to investigate the matter. Bond was set at $1,000.
In another case where R.F. Short was charged with assault and battery, the warrant was changed to include the prosecuting witnesses, Frank Costner and wife, and the costs divided.
From the front page of the Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Tuesday, August 5, 1924
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