Rural Officers O.D. Barrs and Yates Duncan captured a large steam outfit sill in the Sunshine section early this week. The still, a renovated sawmill boiler, was well equipped and was capable of turning out a large quantity of whiskey. It had been in recent operation and was still hot when the officers came up on it. It was located on Leander Harrison’s place, about 30 yards below his barn, in a pasture. No one was at the still at the time, but Harrison was arrested shortly afterwards and placed under bond and will be given a hearing Friday. A flake stand and a half-bushel of ground malt was found in Harrison’s barn and three fermenters were located upstairs in the barn. In a cane patch at the rear of the barn were found the cap and condenser. No whiskey was taken in the raid, as it was supposed that the night’s run had just been disposed of.
The still is possibly the largest in size and capacity of any illicit outfit ever taken in the county.
From the front page of The Forest City Courier, Thursday, Aug. 20, 1925.
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