The Richmond Virginian

UNEARTHS 45 PINTS AND LOOKS UP INTO DETECTIVE'S PISTOL

Norfolk, Va., July 14. — When George Mayo, colored, contracted to sell Detectives Stutz and Williams, of police headquarters, Sunday night, a case of "good old hootch" for $120, the curtain rang down on the final act of his career as a bootlegger, and today George was fined $25 and sent to jail for thirty days for carrying a concealed pistol and held for trial in the corporation court on a charge of violating the Mapp act.

This, despite the fact that only one of the forty-five "pints" which George uncovered in its place of concealment in a vacant lot in Huntersville, was whiskey. The other forty-four were sarsaparilla, tea and various and sundry other kickless beverages which Mayo had carefully camouflaged as liquor. When he looked up from his task of unearthing the buried treasure to deliver it to Officer Stutz he gazed into the barrel of the latter's revolver and Officer Williams was waiting in the street nearby to help Stutz take the prisoner to the station house.