UNCOVER VERITABLE DISTILLERY NEAR MINFORD; ARRESTS MADE

Article Taken from Portsmouth Daily Times
Friday, September 6, 1929

 

Swooping down on Buckhorn Hollow, six miles east of Minford, prohibition agents and deputy sheriffs confiscated three stills and arrested three men within one-half mile of each other shortly after noon Friday.  In the words of the arresting officers "the section was a veritable distillery."

Most complete outfit was found on the premises of a man who said he was Roscoe Anderson; where a still of 200-gallon capacity was rigged up with all attachments in a newly constructed outhouse.  Although the still was not in operation, while the offers were on the scene a high pressure tank exploded burning the building to the ground and destroying the equipment.  Lined along the walls of the house were 251 one-gallon jugs.  Twenty-two barrels of mash also were found.  Anderson was charged with having property designed for the manufacture of liquor and possession.

Fred Conley was found running off a quantity of mash, and he was arrested for manufacturing.  He had a 75-gallon  still and 15 barrels of mash. 

Lee Warren was charged with possession of property designed for the manufacture of liquor when six barrels of mash and a 75-gallon still were confiscated.

Raiding officers included Sate Prohibition Agents Elmer Farmer, John Jenkins and Matt Wilson and Deputy Sheriffs Arthur Oakes and C. C. Potter.