Having had a “tip” that a Dodge coupe with a load of whiskey would pass through Danbury a few evenings since, Prohibition officers Shelton and Flinchum went up toward Piedmont Springs to wait for the car, but before reaching the point where they expected to hold the car up, they met it coming toward Danbury. Before the officers could turn their car around, the liquor car had gained some distance on them, but they started pursuit, the two cars passing through Danbury about dark at a rapid rate, and the race was kept up all the way to Winston-Salem, the officers losing the trail completely at Ogburn station. Both cars were Dodges and neither was able to outrun the other to any great extent. Dust greatly hindered the officers and but for this fact, they probably would have captured the car.
From the front page of the Danbury Reporter, Wednesday, April 15, 1925
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