The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-14
HOLD ANTHONYS
FOR GRAND JURY
Five of Clan, Two Women and
Three Men, Are Brought Before
Commissioner Flegenheimer.
DEFIED OFFICERS FOR YEARS
Alleged Moonshiners Rounded
Up in Sweeping Revenue Raid
in Louisa County.
DEFlED OFFICERS FOR YEARS

Five members OF the Anthony clan
OF Louisa County, suspected by the
revenue officers of moonshining for
years, were yesterday arraigned before
United States Commissioner Flegen-
heimer and held for the Federal grand
jury on the charge of having In their
possession several barrels of brandy
upon which the United states tax had
not been paid. The prisoners. Thomas
n. Anthony, Bernard Anthony, Miss
Lena Anthony. Miss Martha Anthony
and Henry Il. Harris, were released on
$500 bail each.
The preliminary hearing of the
charges against the five alleged moon
sinners was unusually interesting. AL
though the commissioners sat for near
summoned Ola Gooch and Laura
Gooch. two colored women who dis
covered twelve barrels Of brandy hid
witnesses for tho internal revenue Of
flee. and We're subjected to a severe
grillinE by Louis O. Wendenburg, coun-
examination failed to shake Ola Gooch
in her story of the finding OF the
brandy and the. attack upon her moth
err by the Anthonys.
brandy Hidden in woodplIe
Ten members of the Anthony family.
including three women. were in the
hearing. AS many revenue officers
and marshals were also present The
examination of witnesses for the gov
e niatr,n, Vas conducted by Assistant
According to the story told by the
two Gooch women. Andrew Digs and
Frank Frank West, two colorcd men, Ola
of untaX paid brandy hidden In stacked
cordwood on her mothers farm in
November. The Gooch place adjoins
mad frequently been employed as n
domestic by the Anthonys On finding
the barrels OLA went TO her aged
mother, and IL was decided that tho
matter should at once be reported to
the revenue officers.
In the meantime. Frank West, n
negro, who had spent tho night at the
place assisted Ola Gooch to uncover
one large barrel of brandy and roll it
into the Goochs' house. For safekeep-
closet nailed up after sample had
been drawn.
A, pint of the brandy was exhibited
torncyS and court.
Removed Barrel by Force.
me, me aged and crippled Laura Gooch
nnd Martha Anthony. accompanied by
bernard Anthony. Henry Harris and III.
Z: roster; came to the house and de-
TO give 1t up. Lena Anthony seized her
by the wrists and held her while Mar
ina and Bernard Anthony broke open
the closet and rolled the barrel away.
News OF the find and the subsequent
attack on the Gooch house reached
commemorative Attorney Bib. OF
louisa, who Mt once notified Revenue
agent Chapman. A force OF ten revc-
nue. officers was sent to Jackson, where
me Anthonys live, and rounded up
Lena. Martha, Bernard and Thomas n.
Anthony and Henry 7. Harris on one
sweeping raid. Obie Anthony, on whose
place the officers discovered another
Darrel or untaxed brandy, made his
escape.
Made at Licensed SUI.
According to the sworn statement of
Tom Anthony, the contraband liquor
was distilled ut the licensed brandy
stu of III. c. Foster and removed
before the government tax had been
paid. Henry 4. Harris and Foster are
Doth related to the Anthonys by mar
rage, and Sam Anthony. the father of
the boys arrested, is Interested in the
Licensed brandy still. When the of
hccrs went TO seize the still upon the
order of Collector Lowry they could
not hnd Foster and no trace OF him has
been discovered since: 1t was said
Yesterday at the hearing that he In
tends to surrender to the officers
Not all Of the twelve barrels discov-
cred by Ola Gooch and said by her to
have been spirited away by the young
or Anthonys have been found by the
revenue men, but several barrels were
found on Tom Anthony's farm and
others at Anthony's.
The rounding up OF the Anthonys Is
regarded by Colonel Chapman AS one
OF the greatest triumphs OF his Office
For years the clan has defied the efforts
Of the revenue officers to connect tho
members OF 1t with Illicit dlstilling.
Tho evidence secured by the aid of the
Gooch women and in the raid is said to
be sufficient to break up the actiyi-
ties In Louisa County.