Pike County  Georgia Newspapers  Ten Moonshiners 1889
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The Griffin Daily News and Sun.
Griffin, Georgia, Thursday Morning, July 18, 1889

Ten Moonshiners
Are Arrested in Pike County In Two Days

Pike county has contributed its share of United States prisoners to the
courts during the past few years and nearly all of them have been
charges with the violation of the internal revenue laws. In fact, it has
been conceded by residents of the county that illicit distilling has
been carried on there to an alarming extent. The days of moonshining in
Pike, however, are numbered if the officers continue to give the
attention that they have the past few days. On Saturday night Deputy
Marshals J.E. Graffey and John G. Harris made a raid and captured a
distillery in the 10th dist. of Pike and on Monday night arrested eight
men as being connected with the affair, and carried them to Macon. On
yesterday morning, Deputy Marshal Graffey passed through the city with
James Ennis and Joe Evans, two more prisoners, which makes ten that were
captured in two days. These officers also made a raid on a distillery in
Upton [Upson] county on Monday and captured John Miller, Calvin Jemison,
W.H. Minter and Alva Alvah [?], who have been running an illicit
distillery in that county.

(Transcribed 2/12/03 Lynn Cunningham)