Mooresville Enterprise, July 2:
Chief of Police O.L. Woodside put one over on the bootleggers Thursday morning just after he had eaten his breakfast, between 7 and 8 o’clock. He was coming out of Moore Avenue and happened along when a Hudson coach turned from Broad Street into Monroe Avenue. The car looked suspicious and it bethought the alert policeman that probably it would not be amiss to see what embraced the cargo. He ran to the jitney station and pressed “Bunnie” Kimmons into service with a fast car. The liquor-laden car turned into Main Street just ahead of the chief. The jitney car passed the Hudson coach after passing the Mooresville cotton mill office and as it did Chief yelled to the driver of the coach to stop. The driver was so frustrated he did not know what to do, but after running he turned into New Town, and after a brief un the street stopped, and there was no place for him to go.
The man with the driver got away. The Hudson coach and the man were brought to the city hall and an investigation was made of the car. The back seat had removed and in the space back of the front seat there were 17 5-gallon cans of liquor. The man in charge stated that 65 gallons of the whiskey was in the very best grade of corn liquor, but 25 gallons was an inferior or “sugar loaf” variety. The liquor runner gave his name first as that of J.B. Robson of North Wilkesboro, but upon investigation the man proved to be named Ransom Staley of Wilkes county, eight miles out from Wilkesboro on the Boone trail. He was given a hearing Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock and submitted.
He was taxed with a fine of $400 and the cost of $35. Of course he forfeited his Hudson coach, which is a 1924 model with special springs, etc. The liquor was emptied into the city sewers in the presence of the defendant.
From the front page of the North Wilkesboro Hustler, July 8, 1925
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