Murray County, GA
Moonshiners News Articles
Source: The Macon Daily Telegraph 1916 Apr 16
MOONSHINE CAMP IS FOUND IN MOUNTAINS
PROMINENT FARMER OF MURRAY COUNTY IS ACCUSED
Dalton, Apr. 15--News has just reached here of the raid of a big moonshine still or "blockade mill" a week ago in the Cohutta mountains eight miles east of here at River Bend by United States Deputy J. F. Camp and posse. The revenue officers stated that the still was being operated by a prominent farmer of Murray county, M. R. Robertson, who owns a farm of several hundred acres. M. R. Robertson and Berry Robertson were at the still when raided; also two other men and a boy who outran the officers. The Robertson's will be issued warrants, if this has not already been done and cited to appear at the May term of federal court in Rome.
THIRTY-SEVEN GALLON STILL
The still was composed of a thirty-seven gallon copper, nine fermenters and contained a quantity of beer. Mr. Camp states that Robertson had stored in his barn 400 bushels of corn. River Bend is not far from the famous Alaculsa valley, a hollow in the mountains where some twenty families live, some of whom, it is alleged, are distillers. There is only one route leading into the valley and the same one out. The revenue officers go into Alaculsa, as a rule, under the cover of darkness on this account.
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