The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-11-25

4 autOmODlle TO proceed TO town. Jones
was asked by Attorney Shepherd, in
an effort to show the desperate char
acter of McWhorter, il McWhorter on
tdhe morning of armistice day did not
get after him with a revolver and ac-
cuse him of stealing liGuor that was
broughtSto Summit. Jones admitte'!
that he made about four trips to Nc.
| Carly. He denied that the dealings
Of South and McWhorter were all
| through him.
Drank Quart a Day.
| Jones admitted under the ques-
| tioning Of Attorney Shepherd that
about the time of the liquor trans
| actions he was drinking about a
J quart a day and was pretty well
loaded up" Asked about the liquor
he bought from South, Jones said
+, forty odd bottles were in his coal
house and he gave some away to the
| neighbors and osme was used dur
ing the influenza epidemic.
He said he talked to Baker about
the trip after liquor and Baker pro-
tested that they had gotten him into
hole or that they were all about
! to get into a hole; that Baker also
said he would never make another
trip and did not want to be asked to
! make one.
Jones' son was next called to the
stand. The young man is 20 years
old. He testified to driving his fa-
TIERS car on the liqour trips.. He
remembered Baker going on one trip
and said "Brightlight" rode in John
Attaway's car. He said he saw Baker
on Fourth street on the return trip
when Attaway's car stalled, but did
not see anything in the car.
IA this point the government rested
it's case and Attorney Shepherd moved
that the court instruct the jury to
return q verdict for the defendant.
The motion was overruled.
Baker then took tho 1sta4fSis staten
that he had lived here about twenty
fiy years, had been an officer for ten
years, but that since his Indictment
he had not done any officers work.
He further said he had known Jones
about eighteen years and Attaway
three or four years, but did not know
South or McWhorter. He declared
hs had no talk with Jones or any
body else about an agreement to
bring liquor into Chattanooga and
knew nothing of the arrangement of
South and McWhorter for bringing
it in.
Awakened by Jones.
He testified that on a Saturday
night in September, 1918, he made a
trip in Attaway's car; told of being
aroused from sleep W Jones, who
told him to put on his clothes. He
explained that he did not know for
what purpose the trip was being
made, but that the automobile finally
reached its destination, was met by
two men, who put five or six tow
sacks in it. On the return trip Baker
said he got out at Fifth and Cherry
streets, went to restaurant and got
q cup of coffee and later saw Alta
WY, and protested about what had
taken place; said Jones and Attaway
had been good friends of his and he
would say nothing of the occurrence,
bu- that he did not want them ever
again to ask him to do anything like
that.
Baker said he told Jones the same
thing. He declared that If South and
McWhorter stated he had been on
other trips the statement was untrue.
He denied that he had been given any
money or promised any and said
Jones was mistaken if he said Alta
way gave him CBaker) SIS. He de-
niad that he was introduced as Baker
the constable. Baker admitted that
Attaway gave $50 toward the carry
ing on of his campaign for constable.
He said both Jones and Attaway
were good friends of his. and In reply
to the question of the distric attor-
ney why he did not arrest the liquor
transporters the night OF. the trip, he
said "he reckoned his heart got the
better of his brains"