Messrs. W.H. Stevens and F.L. Pittman, who recently purchased a bloodhound, where called to Fair Bluff in the western part of North Carolina Wednesday to help locals find blockaders who escaped from a whiskey still near there after shooting and seriously wounding a deputy sheriff who tried to arrest them.
According to the information received here, the still was found about eight miles from Fair Bluff, just across the South Carolina line. After shooting the South Carolina officer, the men made their escape, and a call was put in here for the bloodhounds. Soon after arriving at the still, the bloodhound found the trail which led out of the woods to the road where it was supposed that the men boarded an automobile.
A Mr. Strickland was suspected of aiding the fugitives in their escape, the suspicion being so strong that he was threatened with being prosecuted if he did not tell where the men were. He is said to have confessed that he had carried them to a swamp from where he was to take them later and carry them farther away. He promised to deliver them up to justice, and the officers were sent with him to arrest them.
The still where the shooting took place was an up-to-date 100-gallon capacity steamer still. It was said to turn out 75 gallons of whiskey daily. Fifteen hundred gallons of beer and 45 gallons of whiskey were found at the still.
The wounded officer was still alive at last reports but was in a critical condition.
From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Friday, Sept. 18, 1925
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