"Cut His Way Out of Jail"- 1926

         One final Prohibition case . . .

                                                             QUINTON 

A small crowd attended court this term, little business done. The docket was a short one, being a special grand jury term. Only one indictment made, that of the usual complaint, the bootlegger, but the day before the court he cut his way out of jail and it is supposed has gone into the same business in new fields. 

Several stills have been found lately, but always the parties have gone, leaving quantities of sugar, fine still, and many gallons of liquor. One wagon and fine copper still, 6OO pounds of sugar, 50 gallons of fine rye whiskey were left. A fine mule was turned loose and made to leave and was located some days after on its way home. It probably found its master waiting for it when it got there, but the officers never got it. This still was found on the land of Mr. R. E. Mountcastle, who destroyed the liquor and carried the outfit to Sheriff Gill at Providence Forge, where it will be sold or destroyed.

-West Point News,11 June 1926