Charles Carmine, sheriff of Pasquotank County, has been making good some of his campaign pledges and incidentally establishing a precedent in Pasquotank. Sheriff Carmine captured a still in the Pasquotank desert (?) Saturday morning, and with it J.W. Goodwin, the operator. Old politicians are wagging their heads and saying Carmine won’t stay in office long if he keeps this up. Carmine says he doesn’t want to stay in office if the county is going to be ruled by an element of lawbreakers.
Goodwin, who was captured with a 60-gallon still by Sheriff Carmine, who took along with him Deputy J.L. Pritchard, and Police Officers Winslow and Twiddy, is to be tried in Pasquotank County court Friday morning. A distilling case is a new thing to County court, the county officers having heretofore shied at this class of lawbreakers.
Sheriff Carmine also arrested Ross Brite on Sunday. Brite was found ambushed near Blackhead signpost with a number of pine bottles on his person, and a five-gallon bottle of moonshine nearby, prepared to take care of Sunday business. Brite was fined $150 in county court Monday morning. George Tinton, negro, also arrested Sunday for having more liquor than he needed for personal use, was fined $100.
From the front page of the Elizabeth City Independent, Feb. 20, 1925
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