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Story 1: The Last Place They'd Look

                Some people were bringing whiskey down from Canada because Burton's wasn't enough.  But the police or the feds found out and started looking for them.  All the police from the jail were searching, which means the jail was empty.  So the men hid in the jail garage (back then it was just a lift up unlocked garage door).  They sat in their garage in their car and of course were not found.

 

Story 2: Drunken Chicken

                Once a man (undercover cop from the BCI- Buero of Criminal Investigation) came to ask Burton for some whiskey.  Before he got to the house, the "lookouts" had seen him coming and warned Burton; people just didn't come to your house asking for whiskey, the maker went and sold it.  So Sophia had hidden all the tools and thrown the grain in with the chicken feed.  When the BCI man came, he acted drunk and asked for whiskey but Burton told the truth: that he didn't have any whiskey to give.  Then a few drunk chickens came waddling in...they had eaten the sour mesh-grain that Sophia threw in their food, and the BCI man asked "What's wrong with them chickens there?"  Burton told him that they had a disease, and the man suspiciously left.


Story 3: Caught

                A man got arrested for moon-shining.  He was thrown in jail for a whole day.  When he got back, the people asked him, "What'd cost ya?" And he replied "Oh, a whole day's worth of boilin'!"