Asheville, Sept. 26—Louis Chick English is under arrest and county officers are searching for Jack Reed as the result of the capture near Burnsville Hill shortly before noon today of a seven-passenger touring car containing nearly 150 half-gallon jars of whiskey.
County officers say the haul is one of the largest ever made in the county in the fight to stop the liquor traffic from Tennessee state line into this section. Two cases of corn whiskey were smashed when the car hit the pool. There were six half-gallon jars of whiskey in each case. The officers seized 124 jars of the whiskey. The car was also confiscated.
Jack Reed, sone of the former federal prohibition officer of western North Carolina, was recently paroled by Governor Cameron Morrison on the grounds that his health rendered him unfit for hard labor on the county road. He had been sentenced for whiskey violations.
From page 4 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Sept. 27, 1924
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