The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-12-06
MILDRED BOWERS
is CONVICTED
Found Guilty Of Transporting
Over Three Gallons and
Sentenced to Prison.
YEAR AND DAY IS PENALTY

Mildred Bowers was found guilty IN
The criminal court Monday afternoon OF
transporting more than three gallons OF
liquor and was fined $3.50 and sentenced
to the state penitentiary for a year and
day TO two years The conviction Is
the first OF a woman on this charge
ever secured in this county A motion
for new trial was Immediately made
by defendants attorney, j. b. Frazier
Jr. The verdict came as no surprise "a
those who had listened to the case: In
fact the long elaboration OF the Jury
caused much comment. The woman
was arrested, together with her chauf-
feur,. Tom Hope, In an automobile
which contained eleven gallons OF
moonshine liquor OF an inferior and
dangerous grade. The whisky was in
two flve-gallon containers and one gal
Ion jug. When the jug was broken II
officers Duggan and Gouldy and Reve-
nue. Agent Stroud made the arrests.
The Bowers woman claimed, how
ever, that she and Hope were merely
and thought the cans and jugs con
tanned paint. They claimed that the
man who had them go after the liquor
was John billiard. billiard was not
in court and was sent for. When the
officer went to South Chattanooga TO
look for John billiard he round two
men answering to that name, and when
he telephoned the court he was told to
bring both billiards in and thus make
sure the right one had been found. He
brought both John billiards in, and the
Bowers woman and Hope identified lit
lie John billiard as the man who had
sent them after the liquor. billiard
styenuouslv denied his guilt.
This is the second time Mildred Bow
ers has recently come into the lime
light-the first time, when she was ar
rested as an accessory to the murder
OF Gus Bricknell by her husband, Hem
r. Bowers. Bowers killed Bricknell
when he caught him in the Bowers
home. 1t was charged that BrickneE
was a frequent visitor at the Bowers
home during the absence of the hus-
band Tom Hope, who was indicted
jointly with Mildred Bowers on the
afternoon.
Lem Collins Fined.
Lem Collins. an old timer, was
fined $50 and costs for selling whisky.
Collins had to be brought in from the
workhouse gang, where he Is serving
a sentence and working out fine for
the same offense. The court remarked
that Collins looked much better ard
much happier since he had been in
the workhouse, where he couldn't
fool with whisky IN any form.
He stated that he let Collins off
with a fine because he already had |
enough sentences to hold him for sew |
eral months more. Collins stated to
the court that he would like to get |
out Christmas. but the court re-
marked that If Collins got a Christ |
mas present 1t would not be a pardon,
for he had been too persistent a vio-
lator Of the whisky laws.
Humes Case to Jury.
The case of w. d. Humes, charged |
with running a bawdy house and SELL
ing whisky. was called up during the
afternoon and went to the jury at a
late hour. Humes, who was formerly
clerk at the Light house, was ar
rested at the instance. of Two girls
who had been living there and who
stated that they would receive men
company and Humes demanded thy
divide the proceeds Of their Illicit re-
lations with him.
Humes Is also charged with ling
whisky at the Light house. The de-
PENDANT Is son-in-law of Joe Nc
Cutcheon, proprietor of the Light
house. The defendant is represented
by Fred Shepherd.