Allen Price, Sheriff , Franklin Parish, La.

Submitted by: DeWanna Lindo

April 2001



Source: Franklin Parish Library clipping



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EARLY SHERIFF CONFISCATES WHISKEY STILL



Sheriff Allen Price, in the late 1920's confiscated a still

from J.D. Peyton. One of the deputies under Price, said this

still was found in a houseboat belonging to Dick Wheeler 

(from Jonesville) near White Oak Landing on Boeuf River.



Arrest for operating stills and other liquor law violations

were many and varied during Sheriff Price's tenure of office.

A report in the October 26, 1928 issue of The Franklin Sun said:

"Sheriff Price has one of the rarest and finest collection of

alcoholic drinking material ever seen in the parish. The 

collection includes hard corn liquor of every kind and 

description, plain and fancy home brew, and liquor making 

devices of every nature. At the present time the evidence is

being housed in the old jail, the prisoners having recently 

transfered to the new one. The Sheriff's office was getting 

so cluttered up with evidence that had the old jail not been

available the officers of the parish would have been forced

to seek new quarters ere long..This pile of evidence shows 

that Franklin Parish's sheriff and his deputies have been on the

job lately."



Price served as sheriff of Franklin from 1927 until 1937 and 

again from 1945 until 1949.