MoonShiner #10 Ed Yarbrough, The Final Mystery Cache
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MoonShiner #10 Ed Yarbrough, The Final
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You are searching for my MoonShine Still in the form of a ammo can as you have found all the roads to get to here.
This is the final of the shine run and I hope the cops did not get you. You are searching for a large ammo can The cache is NOT at the above cords. You will have to find the other NINE caches to get these final cords. In each of the other Nine caches in the series you will find part of the cords to this final cache.
You either like Ed Yarbrough or you don't. There is seldom a middle of the road opinion of the man who rose from backwoods obscurity to the highest prominence in Florida's law enforcement.
He was one of 10 children born to David Arthur and Margaret "Maggie" Raulerson Yarbrough in the rural settlement of Taylor, Florida, on June 11, 1926.
I'd get kidded everywhere I went when people found out I was from Baker County. If I bought a new car they thought I was making extra money on the side from bootlegging. Baker County had a notorious reputation as the moonshine capitol of the nation.
Then the group that formed to establish some creditable things in the county began to look around for a new sheriff. They were looking for some young man that they thought would stand up to these people and they thought I could do it. I'd had enough fist fights that I think for the first time they might have been an asset. They wanted someone that could get as tough as the other fellow. And, too, I had been Master of the Masonic Lodge, served in the war, had been married several year's and had a child. So, when a group of 17 met one night at Lewis Covin's house, they were asked to write down who they thought would be able to do the job. Fifteen of them wrote down my name. So, John Crews called me to come out there to the meeting. When I got there they told me what they had done and we began to talk about me becoming sheriff of Baker County.
That night, though, I told the group, 'Now if you picked me with the thought in mind that I'm going to catch your friend and you are going to want me to turn him loose, then you have picked the wrong candidate. I don't want it on those terms. All I will promise you is that I'll give you clean, fair, firm law enforcement and that's the only way I got in my mind I could do it.' I remember that Paul Rhoden spoke up and said, 'Ed, that's what we've been talking about. That's what we want. We figured that's the way you'd be.
So I told them if they would help me get elected with that understanding of being fair and not having to listen to any of you tell me to turn this one and that one loose, then I'll do it. That night each of them took turns telling me what they wanted in a sheriff, and I accepted the challenge.
I put in the newspaper that I was four score and square against moonshine and it was a clear cut issue, and I'd say at the rallies, 'Now all of you who want to keep the moonshine get over on this side.' They wouldn't move. Then I'd say, 'Those who want something done about it and build our county on a solid economy where you can get a job and get credit to buy a home or car, you stand over here.' I really got their attention.
Yarbrough, now a minister, said one of his deacons is a man he caught and arrested. "We're very good friends today. He told me it changed his life.
Yarbrough said one his biggest quests came when he was in the office just a few months. I passed by a local bar and saw this particular man coming out. I could tell he had too much to drink, so I took him in my car to the jail. I radioed up ahead for Mr. Shuler to have the jail gates open. Just as we got there, the man kicked at me. I had a little black jack with me and we fought a little. He was like a bull, but I finally got him in the cell. By this time, news had gone all over town and people were all out in the street, especially the bootleggers. They drove back and forth in front of the jail all night. The next morning I went down to the Blue Haven and I noticed everyone was calling me sheriff. They said, 'Hey, Sheriff.' Up to that time they'd been calling me Ed. I became sheriff over night. I had mastered the toughest guy in town. He was the bull of 'em all, and kinda run the town. He and I later became close friends and he attended the church I pastor.
The first moonshine conspiracy case made in the State of Florida was initiated by Yarbrough while in office.
The federal men could make conspiracy cases, but it's in the law books that it was the first case made in the state of Florida.
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