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Second Still Captured By Sheriff Byrd;Two Negroes ConfessVillage Inn Raided; 69 Gallons Moonshine Taken Near DurantSheriff Richard E. Byrd cap-tured his second still since assuming office in January.The still was an eleven barrel one found Thursday near Tom Durham's farm near Castallian Springs. A butane gas cooker was used in connection with the still and was also seized. No one was near the place when it was raided but two negroes, Durham and Robert Son Smith, were arrested and confessed to running the still and claimed it was owned by John McBride, Durant white man.McBride paid their fines of $100 each and costs.Hopper RaidedThe first still captured by Sheriff Byrd and his deputies was one operated by Bard Hopper. colored, near Durant.He was tried in JP E. B. Guess’ court at Durant and fined $300 and given sixty days.Village InnThe Village Inn, roadhouse on Highway 12 near Lexington operated now by Ed and Neva Weems, was raided Wednesday afternoon but nothing found.Residence of the Weems family west of the Village Inn was also searched with the same result..Sheriff Byrd and Deputies Ellis Wynn. John Pat Malone and /\udi Halhcock also continued the laid to the residence of John Pate, colored alleged employee o 1 vVeems, on the Bowling Green load Nothing was found.Moonshine SeizedAlso on Wednesday afternoon t ie Holmes officers caught 63 gallons of moonshine liquor at me farm of Jimmy Reed, alias Jimmy Ford, on the Bowling Green road near Durant.Heed was tried in JP court of Mr. Guess and fined $150 and given 30 days in jail.*fe appealed to Circuit Court.
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Durant News
Durant, Mississippi, US
Thu, Feb 07, 1952
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