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Show ILLICIT WHISKY. It Reaults In a Writ of Ifabaa Corpus Being Applied t or. I'aleioh, N. C, Juno 16. Last spring a wagou and a lot of w hisky were captured by the revenue officer at Koxboro. The whisky wa placed In the jail for aafo keeping. A few nights afterward a party of disguised nnd armed men called upon the sheriff, and demanded tho keys of tho jail. Under their threats the key were yielded, and tho whisky was taken. A warrant charging a conspiracy and combination to commit assault and forcible trespass, was taken out Tuesday by tho sheriff against W. O. l'caroe and others, l'earee was arrested yesterday. The magistrate dwined it a case of burglary, bur-glary, and refused to admit Pearce to .ball. A writ of habeas corpus was applied ap-plied for, returablo before Judge Wo-mack, Wo-mack, at Durham today. The Judge required bail In i00 for tho appearance of the petitioner. Pearce gave bond, but is yet held to answer charges preferred' pre-ferred' by the revenue olllcials. |