The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 10, 1926, Image 3
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.
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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.
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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? J
rxtayTfcey gave me a lead over my two opponents in
Abbeville, Aiken, AUendale, Anderson, Bamberg,
Barnwell, Cherokee, Dorchester, Greenwood,
Hampton, Jasper, McCormick, Newberry* Pick.ens,
Saluda, troion and York Counties.
I warn the people of South Carolina to beware
of eleventh hour reports. All by statements have
been made on the stump during the progress of 1
the campaign, and what | have said has been
based upon the record.
I am assured, by mesasges , pouring in to my
headquarters from all sections of the State, of a
sweeping victory in the second primary and I urge
the hundred thousand voters, to whose failure to
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