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Show MOONSHINER CAUGHT. On Jlouday, January 31, 1898 J. 15. ilcCoy, U. S. llevenue Agent and Assistant Towne, got track of a place on the Rio Vir-gen, Vir-gen, 5 or G miles south of Leeds, Washington County, Utah, where liquor was being distilled contrary to law, and they accompanied U. S. Deputy Marshal Joseph T. At-kin, At-kin, to the place where they found Henry Stocks the man who ran the still and the marshel arrested him, and the still and paraphernalia parapherna-lia were demolished. Mr. Stocks was then taken to St. George and brought before Justice F. L. Daggett, Dag-gett, where he plead guilty of illicit il-licit distilling of liquor. His bonds were placed at $500.00, which he failed to procure, and he was placed in the county jail to await the order of the U. S. officers offi-cers at Salt Lake City. |