Federal agents Snell and Grandy and deputies Luther Peel and John Manning were called out to Griffins Township Monday, where they found two moonshine liquor stands. At the first place they found 15 gallons of beer, and at the second they found four barrels. All of this was destroyed, but no stills could be found. The beer was found on the land of Mrs. J.W. Manning.
They then answered a call to Bear Grass, where they found near what is known as the “Five-Cent Road,” leading from the Jim Coltrain place to the Gurganus place, first a batch of 11 barrels of beer. From this place they crossed to the other side of the road and found an 80-gallon copper still boiling hot, with a few gallons of liquor and 500 gallons of beer. The operators, who had heard the noise made in cutting up the first beer, had fled and were not seen.
From this point the huntsmen were called across the road again a few hundred yards further on, where they found a four-barrel batch of beer, but no still or operators. Then they recrossed the road for the third time and found another 50-gallon still and three barrels of beer.
All four places were very near the road and in “smelling distance” of several homes.
From the front page of The Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C., Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1926
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