The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-06
BOTTOMS HELD IN
CONNECTION WITH
CASH|ON'S DEATH
Denies knowledge Of Crime,
But Admits He and CaShion
Were Engaged in Whisky
Running Into Memphis.

Archie Bottoms 20 years old. a be-
ing held In connection with the murder
OF George r. Cashion, whisky runner,
whose body was dug up from the sand
On Island 81, In the Mississippi river.
and brought to Memphis early Satur-
Sheriff Perry Saturday afternoon
swore out a warrant charging Bottoms
with the murder OF George X. Cashinn,
He also charged him with violating the
liquor law and with carrying pistol.
Sheriff Perry based his action, he
SAYS, on Bottoms own statement. The
prisoner did not deny according to the
sheriff, that he was with Cashion and
another whisky runner about the time
the murder Is said to have been com
mitted, He did not deny, the sheriff
continued, that all three had been In
. drunken brawl near the spot where
the body was found and that he and
Cashlon had quarreled and that CASH
ion had accused Bottoms OF striking
Mrs, Cashion or the woman with whom
Cashion had been living, thus establisk-
ing an apparent motive for the crime.
Bottoms was arrested by Sheriff O. H.
Perry and deputies, on an island In
Wof river ut the foot Of Auction
avenue.
He says that In company with man
named w n. Stevens he came down
the river from Cairo in skiff with
whisky intended for Memphis trade, and
on Aug 26 he met Cashion and w. M.
Bloodworth. The pair had motor
launch load OF whisky which they also
had planned to bring into Memphis.
Cashion said, according to Bottoms,
that he did not want to come to Mem
phis as his wife had threatened to have
him prosecuted on charges Of violating
the Mann act. Cashion, according to
Bottoms story was joined by man
he says was named Bob Craig. This
man, Bottoms declares, was with CASH
ion on the island where later the body
was found According to Bottoms'
story Craig accused Cashion OF striking
his (CraigD wife some time before,
and the men quarreled The quarrel
| so far as Rottoms knew, he says, did
not reach the stage OF violence while
he was there. The sheriff and at
| taches OF the office do not put great
deal OF credence in Bottoms story.
The body OF Cashion was dug from
| the sand and brought to Memphis by
| friends and representative OF the Y.
]. Collins undertaking establishments
Searchers found the body buried in a
| few feet OF sand near the river bank
us had been reported. 1t had been
wrapped in a burlap sack and was in
a bad state of decomposition when
found Wounds were found in the side
of the face and in the abdomen.
It Is alleged that Cashlon was killed
| WHlls Oll IlNeI lIlp aboul lWu Wcchn
ago by fellow runners in an effort to
get some whisky Cashion was thought
to have cached on one Of the small
river Islands,
According to reports brought in by riv-
ermen Friday Cashion, who has q wife
and four children in Memphis, had been
living on a househoat up the river with
Bess Taylor, of Cairo, ILL.,, for the past
seven months. He was last seen to
leave the boat In company with Archie
Bottoms and man known on the river
as the "Dono Kid on whisky con-
veying trip down the river.
Detectives did not make the trip up
the Mississippi to island "a to recover
the body and the Memphis police have
made no further investigation OF the
alleged murder, which Is said to have
| occurred in Upton county
| Undertakers are holding Cashion's
body until the arrival of HIS mother.