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Capture Still and Burn House
- The sergeants of Tazewell and North Tazewell, assisted by William CRABTREE, acting on a straight "tip" visited a community in Thompson Valley Wednesday, and after numberous retrograde movements and reconnoitering located a newly built house in the mountain fastness, far away from human habitation, and surrounding the building they descended upon it. But - the lookout had spied them them coming and two men ran from the building. ele?
WOODYARD and Colonel HILL. Each had practiced for such emergency, and were taking fences and rocks like a grey hound, when sergeant
THOMPSON opened up with his "gat" in WOODYARD'S direction, which caused his to run so much faster. The next shot
WOODYARD noticed the dirt fly up close to his feet, and the sergeant's commanded to halt, and thinking of his family and friends, he decided 'twould be the better part of valor to take chances with the jury than with the sergeant's gun. So he stopped and the sergeant gathered him in and brought him to town, but the Colonel made a safe get-away.
WOODYARD blew the whole thing to the officers, stating that he and his partner were making the liquor on the halves, a local resident furnishing the meal, sugar, etc. and they to do the work. The officers destroyed the mash and
paraphernalia, and, acting on the advice of the Commonwealth's Attorney, burned the building in which the moonshine was about to be made.
Lost money - Lost between Jeff WARD'S store and my home $30.00 in ten dollar bills. Finder please return to me and receive reward. Mrs. Cap
CROCKETT, North Tazewell.
On Wednesday night the mercury dropped to the freezing point and a little below. As these lines are written - yesterday, there has been no change to warmer weather, and unless there is a change serious results are feared. The fruit trees are ladened with blooms, and a freeze will now give everybody "the blues" The weather forecast is for warmer weather today.
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