Taylor County GaArchives News.....Three Raids Made Tuesday February 4, 1926
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The Butler Herald February 4, 1926
TWO WHITE MEN ARRESTED, QUANTITY OF WHISKEY AND BEER SEIZED AND OUTFITS 
DESTROYED

Tuesday was an unlucky day for those who wontedly trangress the laws- national 
and State- and without excuse manufacture the inflammable fluid that drives 
men and boys to vice and crime of every nature, so much of which we read about 
in the newspaper every day. 
If men will persist in breaking the law there is only one remedy, that is the 
officers doing their duty and the public co-operate with them in the discharge 
of the same. Taylor county is fortunate in having officers of this kind who 
are highly commended for their efforts.
Tuesday morning deputy sheriff Homer Bazemore, unaided by anyone, raided a 
still six miles south of Butler which at the time of the raid was operated by 
Messrs. A. P. Peterman and S. C. Adams, who were taken into custody and being 
unable to furnish bond are still in jail. As a further result of this raid a 
90-gallon capacity outfit was destroyed together with ten gallons of whiskey, 
nine barrels of beer and thirty gallons of syrup.
At the same time Sheriff McGuffin was on a similiar mission in another section 
of the county. Upon his return to the city reported the destruction of two 
whiskey-making outfits Montgomery bridge on Patsliga creek, but no arrest was 
made. Neither was there any whiskey found at these places but a quantity of 
beer seized and destroyed.
Since writing the above Mr. Peterman waived a preliminary hearing and gave 
bond for his appearance before the April term of Taylor Superior Court. The 
bond assessed was $200.00
On the trial of the case against Mr. Adams, he alleged in his statement before 
the court that he was passing by, while looking for some cattle and had not 
been there more than five minutes when Deputy Sheriff Bazemore walked up. This 
statement of Mr. Adams was verified by the sworn testimony of Mr. Peterman, 
who said that Adams knew nothing whatever about the still being there, until 
he, Adams walked up. Peterman said that he had monly moved the still to the 
place where found on the morning of the day he was caught in the afternoon. 
Upon the above proof being shown, the warrant against Mr. Adams was dismissed.

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