Wilmington, March 30—J.W. Bell, free lance raider, is unconscious in a local hospital tonight, both eyes shot out and his face powder-burned beyond recognition, the victim of an unsuccessful effort to raid a whiskey still seven miles from the city. Bell, missing from home since early Monday afternoon, was found at 3 o’clock this afternoon, face upward, in a swamp by Sheriff Jackson and a 14-year-old boy who agreed to lead the officers to the spot in the swamp where he and a boy friend discovered a still Sunday afternoon.
From page 4 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, April 1, 1926
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