Subject: [KYF] NEWS: Charles Groves Arrested, 1921, Bell Co.
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 6:56 PM

Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson
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Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Jan. 24, 1921

Charles Groves Is Arrested For Trading In Stills
Local Plumber Charged With Selling Paraphernalia For Making "Shine"

   Charles Groves, a plumber, doing business in this city, was placed under
arrest by local police authorities Saturday afternoon, charged with
manufacturing stills which, it is alleged, he sold to moonshiners in this
section.  Evidence against Groves had been accumulating sometime and when
arrested it is alleged he was at work on a  worm which was to have delivered
shortly.
   The arrest was made by Officers Thompson and Maxwell.  The prisoner was
taken to Pineville shortly after the arrest and was given a hearing before
U.S. Commissioner Rollins This afternoon.  Officers Thompson and Maxwell
appeared as witnesses for the commonwealth in connection with the case.

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