Wilson, April 9—Unleashed bull dogs nor hives of swarming bees failed to daunt the Wilson coppers when their noses for booze, which every one of them have, scent the “unforbidden.” They have a duty to perform and they go to it like killing snakes.
A few nights ago on information and belief that a negress had at her home whiskey for the purpose of sale, buck Stallings, one of the “finest” on the force, when he approached her domicile, found a large card on her door reading “smallpox.” Instead of backing away, he found the family all sitting up getting ready to take a nip before retiring. Looking around he found several fruit jars full of corn liquor. He arrested the landlady and took away the juice of the corn and preferred a charge against her for having whiskey in her possession for the purpose of sale. Failing to prove the charge, the woman was allowed to go her way, but she lost her joy-drops.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, April 11, 1925.
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