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P- BWHOLESALE CATCHINGLast Saturday proved to be a day of “wholesale catching” of moonshiners and bootleggers. Saturday morning Charlie *'*’ Mobleywere arrested at the homecharged with moonshining.Sheriff Flannery and three deputies, A. M. Johnson and others went to the home of Charley Mobley Saturday morning and after searching the place for some time located the still snugly placed on the inside of a stack of fodder in the center of his large barn with a rock wall next to the fodder, which made as nice a place as could be made to do the work in, and placed within this wall was a 55 gallon gasoline tank which was used for the still and twelve ^frwarm, they having just completedthmaking the run. The still was destroyed and the posse went to the house and found Charles and Orville Mobley in bed and placed hlt; m under arrest and brought li/ ra to town and he gave bond before TJ. S. Commissioner FT. L. Woods, and returned to ht homes.Saturday morning just after train 26 had run into Iiitehins officers i received word that there was a lady ^ in town for the purpose of disposing of seme whiskey and they placed Mrs. Julia Brown, of Rowan county, under arrest and found that her bag which she was carrying with her(1P2Secontained five quarts of moonshine, j ^ and that it wasn’t “babv food” asshe reclared it was. She was taken to Grayson and placed in jad, after much difficulty, and it was there that lt;he revealed to the officers the full text of the shooting in Rowan j w county of Ora Eden by Kate Tolliver , U1 on Wednesday night before.The same day two suspicious ! ^characters came into Grayson, one passing through the town in a wagon with something in it covered with a tarpaulin und just after he had passed through the town and gotten down about the tobacco warehouse on the east side of town he was then joined by a man who had surrounded the city, walking 'through the fields, and this made it more suspicious, and the officials placed the two under arrest, hut one made good his escape, the other was held and proved to be Jason Fannin, of Elliott county, who had in his possession (only) 34 quarts which were turned over to the Police Judge of Grayson, S. M. Wylie, who will keep it until there is an order made disposing of it.The officials had quite a tussel in making the arrest as he resisted, and it was found that he bad a pistol on him and he was going after it with the intention of making use of it, when lie was struck over the head and knocked senseless.The same day Tom Horseh was arrested at Soldier on the clia.of disposing to parties in that sec* ion some illegal made liquor, moons no, and placed under heavy bond for his appearance before the Carter Circuit Court. There was also an arrest made in the city of Olive Hill that night and two boys were captured with about one quart of the same goods on them, but so far this is all the arrests made since that date.The killing of Ora Eden without any cause will cause many a citizen who has never taken any hand in the matter of quashing the illegal sale of liquor, begin his part of the work now, as it is the general news that this was the cause of his death, and that he was ^ man who was not there for the purpose of causing them or any person any trouble it causes men who are neutral to come out against snch lawlessness and give their aid in tb# depression of such.hrRS
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Olive Hill Carter County Herald
Olive Hill, Kentucky, US
Thu, Jan 27, 1921
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