# Order of Destruction, E.D. Pennsylvania, No. 710 March Sessions 1924 (8 October 1926)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/nara-23932797-order-of-destruction-mitchell-1926/

National Archives district-court order directing the U.S. Marshal to destroy liquor and property seized from a defendant who had pleaded guilty, because it was not fit for medicinal, mechanical or scientific purposes.

This is an Order of Destruction in the Criminal Case Files of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Record Group 21, National Archives at Philadelphia), dated 8 October 1926 and printed as No. 710, March Sessions 1924. The order directs the U.S. Marshal to destroy liquor and property seized from a defendant who had pleaded guilty, because it was not fit for medicinal, mechanical or scientific purposes. The seized items listed include moonshine, wine, gin, beer, mash and a five-gallon still. The defendant is named in the National Archives file as Nellie Mitchell, and George W. Coles is named as U.S. Attorney.

The copy stored here is page 2, the order; page 1 is a rotated file cover. The defendant is a private individual named only as the court file names her.

## Sources

- National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23932797