Randolph County AlArchives News.....Moonshiners burn Deputy Marshal's home. November 20, 1887
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The Macon Telegraph November 20, 1887
A few nights ago, at Wehadkee Randolph county Ala, United States Deputy Marshal 
A. Holden was burned out of house and home by incendiaries. The marshal was in 
Montgomery in attendance on the United States Court end hie family were all away 
from home. From all the evidence the Deputy Marshal satisfied tint the 
incendiaries were moonshiners of the district. The interior of the house had 
been saturated with kerosene oil before the torch was applied. The house was a 
now one, the loss is estimated at $2000.

The Montgomery Advertiser
Yesterday morning Mr. A. Holden, a Deputy United States Marshal, while in the 
United States Courtroom, received a telegram from home which said that his house 
and all its contents were burned up Friday night. Mr. Holden lives in Randolph 
County, near the Georgia state line. The neighborhood he lives in is infested by 
moonshiners, and lately several raids have been made and some stills broken up. 
Mr. Holden as a Deputy Marshal assisted in some of the raids. He is a well-to- 
do farmer, owning about 1,000 acres or land. His house was right new scarcely 
completed and had no insurance at all on it or its contents. He says he had nine 
bales of cotton lying near the house, out don't know whether they were saved or 
not. His family all escaped. He left for home immediately.

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