Keene Children Find Still, Load into Wagon, Pull It Home, Dec. 28, 1925

Four Small Children Capture Liquor Still. . . They Find It While Gathering Holly, Load It on Cart and Take It Home

Tarboro, Dec. 26—Four small children between the ages of 7 and 11 captured a still in Ingram township a few days before Christmas. These little folks, Mildred, Almond, Maebell and Derwood Keene, were out in the woods about a mile from Four Oakes gathering holly to prepare a Christmas tree to be held at the Baptist church. Hidden carefully in the underbrush, they found a still.

They succeeded in loading the captured still in their cart and carried it home, leaving it in the custody of Mrs. R.A. Keene. The citizens of the neighborhood congratulated the children in helping to make for a quiet Christmas in that vicinity.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Dec. 28, 1925

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