Federal agent Thomas W. Snell and Sheriff Roberson raided Free Union, or Gawk, Tuesday and found three stills, each of about 50 gallons capasity. All were cold and no sign of life about them.
The officers found at the stills about 2,100 gallons of sugar and meal bear, all of which was destroyed.
Evidence was insufficient to justify prosecutions.
Wednesday the officers went to the Leggetts Mill section in Bear Grass township, where an invitation had been extended to them. There they found six fully equipped stills, about 8,500 gallons of beer, many kegs, jugs and other equipment used in the manufacture of liquor.
Two of these six stills had been run during the previous night and were warm when the officers reached them. All the liquor was removed before the arrival of the agents. Much of the beer found at the plants had fermented and most ready to be run. No one was seen near the stills. All the equipment was destroyed.
Mr. Snell says one of the plants was very near the residence of his old friend Hickory Ben Daubbs, and there was a path leading in that direction, but his old friend was not in sight.
From the front page of the Enterprise, Williamston, Martin County, N.C, Friday, August 27, 1926
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