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make RAID ON "HELL HOLE/' SUte, County ami Federal on.,,, , Are Caught In Dig Drive. (From Monday's New* and Courier) Federal prohibition enforcement agents, suddeply and in great force, Kyvoobped down on Charleston and H, rkeley late Saturday night and yesterday. Quickly spreading over both counties, by last night these agents, operating under the direction of M. Q. Dunning, prohibition coordinator for this section, had arrested thirty-three prisoners and confiscated seventeen stills with their connections, 806 gallons of corn whiskey and 34,400 gallons of "ibeor" and five automobiles. The prisoners included: Alonzo B. Heabrook, federal prohibition group leader at Charleston. * Henry S. Gamble, sheriff of Williamsburg County. George *C. Ham, H. S. Scarborough and George Scarborough, state constables: Eldridge Scarborough, rural policeman. > D. L. Jervey, former Alderman of Charleston, T. F. Henebery and Melvin O'Neal. Besides Federal, State and county officials, the arrest included alleged rum-runners, bootleggers and moonr shiners. Saturday nigfht the coast guard cutter Yamacraw, under the command of Captain Phillip W. Lauriat, and bringing scores of prohibition enforcement officers slipped into the harbor and tied up at Union Pier, No. 2. The government agents came quietly ashore a little later and the raiding was begun at once. A raiding party left the city right away for Mount Pleasant and was kept busy in the Awensd&w ,section and yesterday morning early another party started for the Hell Hole section of Berkeley county. A number of officers were kept in and near the city and one of the first arrests made was that of Alonzo B. Seabrook. He was taken at his home in North Charleston and carried to the Yamacraw and later to the Charleston County jail. Seabrook was given a preliminary hearing yesterday afternoon before United States Commissioner Arthur M, lluger and his bond was set at $10,000. He was the only one of the prisoners who was able to arrange bond. Plans for the raid were perfected by Mr. Dunning, with Capt. Lauriat, Major Meyer, district attorney, Mr. Sfriruel, assistant district attorney, and Charles L. Redding, district attorney at Savannah and Mr. Dunning's legal advisor. Those leading in the raids were J. H. Lee, prohibition administrator of thp Ciaic of Florida, Fred D. Dismuke, prohibition administrator of Georgia, and J. T. Crowder, group leader of prohibition agents in Savannah. G.1 D. McKnight and Mannie Carter, of Berkeley county, were the under-cover men working on the local situation. They obtained most of the information on which the prisoners were arrested, and Mr. Dunning stated last night that he considered the arrests which have been made to be absolutely iron-clad and that there is little chance that any of the prisoners will be able to free themselves of the charges against them. Alonzo' B. Seabrook is charged | with accepting a bribe and with conspiracy to set up a still io? the raanu-, facture of whiskfey. He was arrested ! at hia home at North Charleston at I 8:30 o'clock Saturday night by Officer I Crowder who l)ad other prohibition enforcement officers wkh him. Ho was made to open hit safe and the officer* found In H $340 in marked bills which they state were paid to him Friday September 3. They found two $20 and one $10 marked bills paid him for his protection by federal agents under the guise of bootleggers on August 29, it is charged, and one marked $50 bill puid also for his protection August 21. They also found in his house two ten-gallon kegs, one five-gallon keg and three half-gallon fruit jars of moonshine, they reported. In working up the conspiracy charge Mannie Carter, working undpfti cover, bought from H. S. Scarborough, State constable, a still which was set up on Seabrook's advice on EHisto Inland. Seabrook, it is claimed, persuaded I Scarborough >t osell the still to Carter and when the suggestion was made that it be set up in Berkeley county the federal officer offered to arrange for its operation on some of his proparty on Kdisto, saying that on account of the bootlegger war iu Berkeley that region was particularly dan-1 gcrouK. " Three negroes, Boisey Williams, J Bennie Bailey and iSancho Nelson, were hired to operate the still and 1 they were among those arrested Ui I the raid. Seabrook was tried in the United States District ^Court here in October I oh a charge of killing J. G. Pittman, of Beaufort, in a r&id the previous May. He was acquitted October 17th by direction of a verdict by Judge Er- J nest F. Cochran. Sheriff Gamble was arrested in the ivicinity of .Moncks Corner when he went to the home of McKnight to ac-1 cept money as a consideration for* not*J giving information as to the whereabouts of certain whiskey. He is charged with receiving money as a consideration for not giving information and with conspiracy to violate I the national prohibtron MT F. j Haselden was arrested . with him oul the conspiracy charge. w? c George Ham, State constable, I charged with receiving money as a consideration for not giving infor-1 mation, was the only man to resist arrest. He attempted to ^pull his gun I on Officer CrowdeV and in the scuffle J that followed Officer Hudson, who I was one of the raiding party to close in on him, got his hand broken. Jervey Ville Ponteaux of Berkeley I county, and named by 'Mr. Dunning 1 as "king of moonshiners" in this sec-1 tion, was arrestd yesterday after-1 noon. He was carried to the Charles-1 ' ton county jail ,not being able to art 1 range bond. He'is charged with con-1 spiracy to violate the national prohi-1 bition act. At his place the pfficers I captured 200 100-pound sacks of sugar and 400 half-gallon iars of whis-l key. -r: 7 Mr. Dunning stated last-" night on 1 his return from the raids in Berkeley! County, that he expects to make at I least twenty more arrests today. Raiding parties were out all last night and I will continue to work tomorrow, Wed- I nesday and until they are sufficiently I satisfied that they have cleaned up the I ring which infests this vicinity. Early last night officers of the I Yamacraw and prohibition agents de-1 stroyed what liquor had been brought to Union pier. In the neighborhood of 224 gallons of corn whiskey were I rxjhred overboard to mix with the I salty waters of the Cooper* While this I I work was being carried out the head I I of the pier gave off strong aromas of Among the prisoners arrested artd I the charges under which they are be-1 j Gilbert Weston, Charleston, posses-1 si on of nine quarts of Scotch whiskey I I A Ion 7.0 B. Seabrook, federal prohi| bition agent, Charleston, receiving I money as a coinsideration for protec-1 I tion to certain whiskey dealers and I conspiracy with Boisey Williams, 'Ben-1 Inie Bailey and Sancho Nelson to set I up a still fqr the manufacture of I H. E. Wise and D. L. Jervey, Charlleston, possession and sale oi whis-1 Willie Razle, possession of whiskey. -Edward S. Wilkinson, Charleston, I Henry S. Gamble, sheriff of W4II liamsburg county, accepting money p* la consideration for not giving infor-j mation and conspiring with M. F.I I Haselden to violate the national pro[hobition act. j George C. Ham, State constable, I Berkeley, receiving money for not inI forming and resisting arrest. I Clarence Jaekson, Berkeley, transI porting and possessing. W. D. Jackson, Berkeley, possessing I liquor on which no tax had been paid. 1 Philip Livingston, Charleston, conI apiracy with Hunter Sikes to violate j the national prohibition act. H. S. Scarborough and George ScarI borough, State constables at PinopoIIlia, conspiracy to receive money for I not giving inlormation. In Ml S|iijkrlnniuin Ijaml for the purpose of manufacturing whiskey. . -i . John Wright, Berkeley, possession. T. F. Henebery and Willie R$zle, Charleston, conspiracy to violate the national prohibition act. Louie Hamilton, Charleston, sale and possession. Melxin O'Neale and Charlie Brown, alias "Pug", conspiracy to violate the 1 national prohibition act. Besides these, there were several others who were arrested by the officers, but Mr. Dunning stated that his mep were bringing in their prisoners so fast that it was impossible for him to keep records up to the minute. New Use For Safety Blades. - C \ Bristol, Vo., Sept. 6.?A new use for old safety razor blades wag discovered by prisoners at the Sullivan i -County jail at Blountville, Tenn, when they utilized one .-of the discarded pieces of steel to dig their way out of confinement. Only one of them had been recaptured early today. With the blade they cut two bars of their third story cage and /removed two pieces about a foot * long. They .crawled Into the corridor, dug a hole in th<i wall with tlita iron bars, and slid to the grojind on bedclothes, which they h^Ktied together. The jai^^on the uurd floor heard _ the fourteenth man hH ground, ran out and ?gptured him, but the others escaped into a near woodland. - A-re=? porter sent to the scene to investigate captured one of the men along the Brtstoi~Blountvil!e-highway when the, prisoner hailed the newspaper man and asked for a ride. He delivered the prisoner to the jail.v Practically all of the escapes were held on liquor charges. , ~ ' 5 1 i TKe People Have Spoken The people of South Carolina have spoken and I clean to wive expresison to my sincere j thanks for the tremendous vote of confidence given me In list Tuesday's primary. The result is extremely gratifying and it is with a confidence born of that which has been reposed in me by the vote of the people in the first I primary that I look forward to my nomination in the second. t ' : Senator Smith, as the returns undeniably show, j had nearly 100,000 votes polled against him and in favor of Mr. Dial and myself. | In the face of this enormous protest vote he can never hope to get a majority. His only hope of re-election was in winning on I the first ballot, in which he was repudiated at the j polls. Prior to the first primary, campaign propagan- ! da was disseminated by Senator Smith's campaign | manager and field forces to the effect that I would not carry my home county of Barnwell. This was done for the purpose of injuring me elsewhere. ; But what did the people say at the polls? At my home box I received something more than 5 to l and carried my home county by' nearly two to one over both my opponents. This is the fourth time that \ have received this unreserved support from my home folks. In Senator Smith's county* (Lee), 1 received 850 against his 1,480 of the vote as reported, and toI gether with Mr. Dial, we polled 1,189 against Senator Smith's total of 1,480. It was also reported by Senator Smith's cam- I paign manager that my native heathr( Aiken ^ j County), Would not vote to send me to the United j States Senate. | In Aiken County I received at the hands of I my people 2,698 votes to Senator Smith's 1,152, j ami a majority of 898 over both of my opponents. The returns show that I have in the first primary carried or led in every county, with one or two exceptions, in my entire section of the State. j They further Show that 1 have led the ticket in practically every county from Newberry . to the j coast. ? \ I VRien the people spoke at the polls last Jlllflgr? 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