The Atlanta Constitution 12 Oct 1886 |
The Atlanta Constitution |
Atlanta, Georgia |
12 Oct 1886 |
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A Silver-Haired Revenue Violator in Trouble Among the revenue violators before Judge Newman in the U.S. court, yesterday, was William M. Cole of Paulding county. This old gentleman’s hair was almost silver white, but his form was robust and portly, his clothes were nest fitting, and he looked like a good, honest old farmer. He was charged with receiving and carrying away distilled spirits from an illicit distillery, and to this charge he pleaded guilty, but said he did not know he “was violating the revenue law by going into the woods and taking a drum or two with some friends out of the bung of a keg.” The evidence showed that Mr. Cole had told a man named Clark to take some of his corn and swap it for liquor. Clark got the corn out of Cole’s crib and carried it to the still and “made a run.” The whisky was put in a keg and delivered to Cole, a short distance from his house in the woods. It is claimed that George McBrayer, who is now in jail, is the informer on half of the men who have been brought from Paulding county. He was with Cole when he drank and received the liquor. Judge Newman was lenient with the offender and sentenced him to one month in jail at Marietta, he not wishing to be place near the informer, who he said was the cause of his being in trouble… |
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