Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-11-12

Burlin Lynch, Beattyville, had q
still going and everything ready but
! the permit to make whisky, it was
proven in his trial, and was put out
of business instanter by revenue off
GERS. Lynch will serve 80 days.
When officers came upon the still
of Sylvester Thorpe in Estil county
they found that he had five gallons
of liquor made an dbusily engaged
in making more. He will spend three
months on the inside as the result of
| the sentence.
Turner Wells was sentenced for
three months for selling whisky in
his neighborhood in Estill county.
John Stevenson, Estill county, paid
fine of S100 for having whisky in
his possession and transporting it.
j. W. Watson was fined s1OO for
transporting liquor. He is. also from
Estill county.
Ambrose Dunaway got three months
for selling whisky in Estill county,
where he stated he had lived most of
his life.
Arch Caudill, another one from Es-
till county, paid a fine of 500 for
having liquor in his possession, which
he was willing to sell.
Grover Cleveland Williams, Madi-
son county, was fined 500 by Judge
f,.o, ,ic.lrx
The court informed Grover Cleveland
that had he lived up to his name, he
would not have been in. trouble over
whisky, and suggested that he do this
in the future.
Tan and James Fox looked after
some of the illicit liquor interests in
Owsley county, with the result that
each will do a three-month stunt for
unlawful making and selling.
Noah Hanson paid a 500 fine and
returned to Jackson county immedi-
ately after he got his change, after
having been convicted of transporting
whisky.
Henry Kidd, Owsley county, was
found with quart of whisky in his
possession and believed he would get
off easy. He was fined $50. There
was no "1id," and he borrowed a part
of the money with which to pay the
fine.
James Hignite is one that the off
GERS have been after for some time,
it is claimed, in the vicinity of Big
Hill, Madison county, but he was not
apprehended until he had led the Off
GERS a merry chase covering period
of several months. He paid fine
of $10O for selling whisky.
BARLEY Parks, who came from Per-
ry county with a suit case filled with
bottled wet goods, and whose selling
proclivities soon caused officers to
get on his trail. paid fine of $10C
for the act. He was arrested in
Richmond and paid u fine in city
court besides doing Jail stunt.
Edgar Dunn, Boyle county's rep
resentative at The recent session, was
fined 500 for selling booze, and paid
the fine, and was also apprised of the
fact that he would serve 80 days.
Oscar Hamer, also of Boyle county,
was known as a man from whom one
could "get something" if he was bad
ly in need of it, and this reputation
cost him a sentence of 80 days in
Jail, to be started after January /.
This will give him a new start, the
court said, on the new year.
George Spencer represented the
unlicensed manufacturers from Per-
ry county, and he paid a fine of $1OO
C. c. Noble, John Gibson and M.
G. Combs, charged with having :iquo.
in their possession, will be up from
Jackson county again to see what the
court has decided about their cases.
They gave bond.
w. L. Bentley and Charles Amyx,
800 each for selling whisky.