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UNEARTHED AT LAST. Federal Officers Dig Up Despair Cop per Still, Famed For Its Liquor. Louisville, Ky.—Searches of over a year and a half have finally unearthed the famous copper “still” belonging to Forester Skegges, of Larue county, the moonshiner. Deputy United States Marshals Cundiff and Parrot dug it up in the rear of Skeggs’ corn patch and wired the local collector of internal revenue at once. He sent a deputy, who will destroy the still, which worth $200 and holds about 200 gal lons. The Despain family, of Larue county, owned it for 100 years. The great grandfather of Despain, now a nona frenarian, brought it from Virginia, and 't passed through the family, renowned for the amount and the flavor of its Hquor. Skeggs heard of it and wanted it. Despain cut it up into little pieces and buried it. A young moonshiner named John Bell dug it up and sold it to Skeggs, who patched it and used it, firmly be lieving that it was a talisman. From that time his downfall began, and finally he was arrested near Clover dale, Ind, a month ago, though he refused to tell the hiding place of the still.
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Berea Citizen
Berea, Kentucky, US
Thu, Feb 20, 1908
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