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REMEMBERED AS ONE FREED IN MURDER OF OFFICER SPANGLER NI. II. Kincaid Also Arrested—Com plete Outfit Found With Quantity of Booze Herbert Kincaid, who will be re membered as one of the Kincaid brothers arrested and later freed on a charge of murdering Officer Spangler at Price Hill last spring, is again in the county jail, this time on a charge of owning and operat ing a moonshine. still. Kincaid was arrested about 11 o'clock yesterday worning in com pany with R. L. Kincaid, at the old M. I. Canada, home south of Glen White Hill. A complete still, four gallons and one-half of booze and some mash were found in the LOUSe. One Man Absent One of the men was absent when Deputies Gautier and Canterbury ndt Prohibition Agent Goodwin cnt to the house, but they found me at the home of a neighbor some stance away. The complete still was in the house when the officers entered, it was not running at that time. bore evidence, however, of hav e been recently used, and the presence of the liquor was evidence that at least a still had been run ning somewhere. Mash was also puid, and destroyed. The apparatus was complete in very respect, and when the apiers ate through the city with it about oon yesterday the passersby gaz edd long at the contraption. In ad dition to all the accessories that wake up the “running mill” a stove, violently used for heating pur poses, was brought along. Herbert Kincaid, it will be re membered, was one of the brothers arrested following the murder of Officer Spangler, who was killed while he had one of them under a r est.” The two escaped, but were captured about a week later. At the rial the state was forced to rely upon circumstantial evidence as the murder was committed without any eye-witnesses, and the young men were freed. The two arrested on the still charge have not yet been given a reliminary hearing, but it is ex ected that they will plead guilty the charge.
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Beckley Raleigh Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Tue, Nov 22, 1927
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