George Rich, the notorious blockader of the Flagtown section, was arrested on last Sunday afternoon by Prohibition Enforcement Officer Culp and a posse and carried to Troy and lodged in jail. Rich is perhaps the most notorious blockader in Montgomery county, and owing to having a well arranged system of signals and corps of informers and signalers it has been impossible for officers to apprehend him.
Rich was tried, it was learned, at the June 1924 term of the United Stated District Court at Greensboro and convicted, and before he could be sentenced, he had made his escape and forfeited his bond. He was given a hearing before United States Commissioner J.B. Ewing, and remanded to jail to await instructions from the United States marshal at Greensboro as to what disposition to make of his case.
From the front page of The Albemarle Press, Thursday, June 18, 1925
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