Butts-Henry County GaArchives News.....MOONSHINER UNDER A MATTRESS August 16 1895
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Jackson Argus – Week of August 16, 1895
Deputy Marshall Scott had quite an experience in capturing a moonshiner in Henry
county the other day.   The officer chased him to the house where he went in and
found the distiller between two heavy mattresses.  It was a warm, sultry night,
and when the officer pulled his man from his unique hiding place he was panting
like a race horse, with perspiration streaming from his face and body.  In this
painful attitude of concealment, the moonshiner had been for quite a while.

When the deputy entered the house two female forms were lying upon the bed under
the mattress of which the distiller of corn spirits was dreaming of safety and
escape.   To support this weight of flesh on top the mattress was more than one
moonshine could stand, and he came next to suffocating before the deputy
relieved him from his peculiar position.

He was pulled by the leg from his concealment and taken to Atlanta where he was
put under $200 bond which he was unable to give bond was committed to Fulton
county jail




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