Evening star., 1919-12-31
ADMITS RECEIVING
S5OFR0M DUNFORD
Chauffeur, Williams Testifies
at Manassas-Agent Sweet
Also Heard.
From a stan Correspondent.

From a stan Correspondent
| MANASSAS, Va. December 31.-The
question of an advance of $50 to Joe
Williams. chauffeur for the prohibi-
tion agents, on the night of March
%. when Lawrence and Raymond
Sha ckleford. alleged bootleggers, were
mortally wounded during a pistol bat
| tie. was raised this morning by the
prosecution when the grilling cross
examination of Williams. witness for
| the defense, was resumed as the OPEN
ing mark of the third day of Halls
| son.
+, Judge Tavenner asked the witness
whether he was not advanced $50 be
fore appearing in this case" The wit
ness explained that he had to have some
money ito pay expenses" He said he
borrowed it, Upon further questioning
by Judge Tavenner. counsel for the
prosecution. he admitted that he re-
ceived a letter inclosing u $50 check
from Ernest f. Dunford.
Before leaving the stand the defense
! turned to the witness again with the
question of whether the officers took a
drink. He denied it. Judge Tavenner
then asked whether he had any whisky
with him that night or took a drink.
He denied it.
Agent sweet Second Witness.
Harry F.. Sweet. one of the prohibi-
tion agents in the party which en-
gagged in the shooting last March. took
| the stand as second witness for the
defense. He is under a joint indict-
| ment with Hall and his two other COM
panions. He will be tried separately,
| as will w. G. Dunleavy and J. II. Sui
livan. two other dry agents.
Sweet told.a firm story of the shoot
inn Of y,
declared that the dry agents car ap-
preached the bridge across Tumbling
Rock, where the shooting occurred, be-
| fore 1880 on the night of March 25.
They waited until long after midnight
before they first saw the spotlight Of
the bootleggers' car far up the road.
Sweet said it was sweeping the road
| in manner used by bootleggers to
pick out officers who night stop them.
Sweet was stationed up the road to-
ward the bootleggers car, where he
could cut off retreat after they had
| passed him. and encountered his COM
panions. AS the car passed he said
it was loaded heavily. the tenders
| scraping the wheels. He signaled to
Hall with his flashlight. Halls car.
he. testified, moved out and bio ock ed
| the road. When Sweet had approached
to within thirty feet of the bootleg
gers car. he said. 1t reversed in order
to clear the tenders of the road
blocking car. and sped forward. In a
second a shot was fired from the
whisky car. he testified
After this two more were fired,
while Hall had jumped on the run
ming board and was being pulled into
! the suspects car. Then the dry
agents opened fire, he said. with the
result that the suspected car turned
down a byroad and ran into an en-
bankment.
Tells Of Trip to Hospital.
He told Of the removal of Shackle-
ford and Hudson to the prohibition
officers car and the start of a speed
trip to the Winchester Hospital in a
desperate effort to save their lives.
When placed on cross-examination.
the prosecution wanted to know
where his son was, who had driven
the wounded men to the Winchester
Hospital Sweet replied he was in
years old. Young Sweet has not ap-
peared in any of the trials. This
point will be Included, it is antici-
pated. among the concluding state
ments of the prosecution to the jury.
sF0llowing Sweet, w. G. Dunleayy
took the stand for examination Dur.
ing his opening reply he substantial
ed the story OF 0.S former witnesses
for the defense. He also was a mefn-
ber Of Halls party on the night of
the shooting. J. H. Sullivan is ex-
pected to take the stand for the de-
fense this afternoon.
Williams Admits whisky Trim.
The prosecution exploded a bomb
when Judge Tavenner. for the prose-
cution, during grilling cross-exami-
nation, secured from Joe Williams,
chauffeur for the prohibition agents
automobile. the admission that he had
received an order from a garage man
/ tn hriY xxyh i0lr Do1t
admitted that he had gone for it, but
did not get 1t. Williams was the
first witness placed on the stand for
the defense.
He went through the examination
with ease. He is clean-cut and makes
a good witness. But when Judge F. S
Tavenner placed him on cross-exami-
nation, the prosecution grilled him
with rapid fire questions, which
brought the jurors to unusual atten-
tion.
"Did you ever say at your home
Lock these pistols up in mothers bu-
reau, / never want to see them
again?'" Judge Tavenner asked.
"No'
Did you ever give your pistol to
your child to play with when you re-
would any sane man do that? he
queried.
Did you do this. sane or insane %
said Judge Tavenner.
NO"
| Asked If he had travelled much over
Virginia, he replied he had.
| 'In the bootlegging business" he
I was asked
| NO he said.
| Grilled during the next three min
! utes. Williams admitted that he had
| gotten an order for whisky in Balti-
more to be delivered to a garage man
| but that he did not get the whisky
although he went after il.
! When asked whose car he used, he
{ declared: II refuse to answer"
! He declared that about" year ago
| this trip was made. 1t was nine
months ago that the men were shot and
| il is believed that the two facts VIII
! be connected by the prosecution.
| Williams is under indictment for the
! murder of his wife and the prosecution
! expressed the belief that his father-in-
| law and sister-in-law would produce
! valuable evidence at the trial which
! would put new light on the activities