The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-10-06
CASEY OFFICIALS
HELD OVER ON ASSAULT AND
BATTERY CHARGE.
Adair Boys Claim They Were At
tackled and Cursed-Oaicers Say
Youths Started the Trouble

Deputy Sheriff Roscoe Brice,
and Town Marshal Sam Raines, of
county grand jury by County Judge
James P. Bailey, on assault and bat
terry charges preferred by Grover
Caldwell, an Adair county youth.
The bonds of Brice and Raines were
fixed at $500 and that of Brown at
$3.50, all of which were given by
Sheric ]. d. Taylor, of Casey, who
came down here with the men for
the trial Thursday.
The trials were the outcome of
some trouble which occurred at
Moreland last Saturday night, when
Caldwell, his two brothers and sew
eral other Adair county young men
came there to take a train for Gin
cinnati where they expected to find
work. They were stretched about on
the floor of the depot, waiting for the
early morning Sunday excursion.
About 10 o'clock, according to Gro
yer CaldwelPs testimony, Brice and
Raines entered, and began going over
the crowd with a searchlight, as if
looking for some one. When they
came to him, he endeavored to push
the light out of his eyes, when, he
said, the two men grabbed him,
shook him, and bumped him up and
down on the floor. He said that he
was frightened and endeavored to
get up and away from them, and
when he got up Raines struck him
over the head with his pistol butt,
and as he ran out of the door shot
at him twice AS he ran across the
railroad tracks, he said, that Brown
met him and grabbed him, and held
him while Raines turned a search
light on him; and after discovering
that he was not the man they were
evidently after, cursed him repeated
ly, calling him all sorts of vile names.
He said Brown offered to go with him
to wash the blood off his head, but he
was too frightened to go with him.
The youths testimony was corrob-
GRATED by his brother, Robert Cald-
well, who said that when he endeav-
ored to stop his brother and Raines
while they were scuffiing, Brice
struck him with his fist like the kick
of a mule" as he called it, and
knocked him away. He said that as
his brother ran out, with Raines af-
ter him, Brice called to Raines to
skill him, Sam, | am with you" He
said that when Raines fired at his
brother, Raines had the pistol point
ed right at the middle of his bro
theirs back and that he knocked his
arm up as Raines fired, but that
Raines shot the second time, as his
brother ran, without interference.
Neither of the shots struck Caldwell.
Ed Sexton, another of the Adair
county boys, testified to the same eff
feet. All were evidently scared
greatly by the treatment they had re-
ceived, and Grover Caldwell appear
ed in court with his head bandaged
up from the injury he had received.
All three men said that the Casey
county officers seemed to them to
have been drunk.
The three officers, when placed on
the stand, said that they had gone
to Moreland to catch a man named
West, who was wanted for malicious
shooting, and that Mr.. Brown went
to look through the hotels at More
land, while the other two officers
looked over the crowd in the wait
ing room. All vigorously denied
that they were drunk, but each ad-
mitted to have taken a drink at Hus-
tonville.
Brice and Raines said that they
had passed over many of the men
with their fashlight, as they lay on
the floor of the depot, but when they
came to Caldwell, he pushed the
light away and came up fighting.
Raines and Brice both said that he
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grabbed him by the hair, and Raines
said that as he did this, he pulled
his pistol and hit Caldwell over the
head. He and Brice both denied that
Brice had told him 10 kill Caldwell
as he ran but said that Brice told
him to catch him. He said he did
not know West, the man they were
looking for, but thought Caldwell
was West when he began to run, and
fired in the air thinking it would
stop him. All of the men denied
cursing the youths. They waited at
Moreland while the Adair county
boys came to Stanford after war
rants for them. Deputy Sheriff
John Moser, of this county, testified
that Brown was cursing when they
came back with the warrants, and
that ne made hlm stop.
The Casey county officers were de-
Tended by Attorney George D. Flor
enec, while T. ]. Hill, Jr., acted as
County Attorney in the absence of
County Attorney w. S. Burch, and
was assisted by Attorneys P. M. Nc
Roberts and j. n. Menefee, Jr., act
ing for the Moreland Law and Order
League.
Judge Bailey said he thought that
the case needed further investiga-
ton by the grand jury and held the
defendants over. Several of the
Adair county youths who were with
them, said that it is probable that
actions for civil damages will be
filed against the Casey officers as a
result of the affair.