Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-09-06
MORE STOLEN BOOZE
FOUND IN LINC0LN N
Prominent West End Farmer Ar
rested When Two Barrels Were
Dug Up In Tobacco Patch

Danville, KY, Sept. 6-Within
two hours after Chief Prohibition
Agent Paul Williams, of LeXing-
ton left here with two barrels Of
whisky stolen from the d. l..
Moore distillcry, near Salvisa,
Mercer county, week ago and
'unearthed Friday near this city,
thro some splendid work on the
part of Deputy Marshal Rowan
Sauhey, three more barrels, evil
IDENTIFY of the same vintage were
found in a tobacco field about 7
miles south Of here in Lincoln
county, and brought to this city.
On secret information furnish
ed the officers, the find was made
by Deputy Agent Rowan Saufley,
of Stanford; Assistant Deputy
Collector Fred Ellis, of Louisville !;
Officer Charles Gibson, of Dan
vile, and Sheriff M. ]. Farris, of
Boyle county, who drove to the
farm of Collins Moore, a promin-
ent farmer residing over the Lin
coin county line, where they 10
Gated the liquor in the center of
a tobacco field.
The ground showed evidence of
having been recently disturbed
and where several tobacco sticks
protruded from the ground the
''revcnuers" began digging and
soon, uncovered three barrels OF
whisky, which were loaded into d
truck and brought here.
Moore, on whose farm the
buried treasure" was found, was
placed under arrest but denied all
knowledge of the whisky and said
that it must have been buried
there in the night while he was
asleep. He was released on bond
and will have his examining trial
with in a few days.
This find makes five barrels Of
the fourteen barrels of whisky
stolen from the Moore distillery
which have been located in the
vicinity of Danville. 1t is rum
ored that six barrels were orig
inally brought here, but that one
barrel of the consignment has
been used in making highballs and
cocktails for local consumption.
Officers here have ::'tip" that the
other eight barrels taken from the
distillery were concealed in Aier-
Ger county and efforts are being
made to locate it there.
1t is stated that Revenue Officer
Frank Ellis, working out of Col
lector Hamilton's office at Louis
vile, has taken charge of the
three barrels of whisky found in
Lincoln county and by order of
Collector Hamilton, it will be ia
ken to Louisville to await final
disposition.
The two barrels of Moore whis-
Ky, seized by Chief Prohibition
Agent Paul Williams, of Lexing-
ton, was loaded on a truck and
carried away to that city Satur-
day afternoon.
Fred O. March, q, graduate
of Centre College last year and
son OF a prominent physician, was
arrested Saturday. Officers say
he made a complete confession of
the plot.
They say that March confessed
that Christ Reed and Lawrence
planned the whole raid March,
it is said, borrowed the truck on
which the whisky was hauled
away from the warehouse from
the Danville Buick Company on
the pretense that he wanted to
haul a party Of friends to Lancas-
ter and ON to Dix river for a barge
party, ii was stated. He said there
were two parties, one from Boyle
and the other from Mercer, en-
gagged in the raid; that his party
got six barrels Of the fourteen
that were stolen, and the Mercer
party the other eight, according
TO the officers.
March told how Lawrence met
lthe met the distillery, while
Young, his fellow watchman, was
asleep and off duty. He (March)
said that he walked into the dis
ltillery with his pistol in his hand
and made Lawrence awake
Young He then asked for Young's S
lpistol. He was told it was in a
sideboard and March made Law
renee get it, according to March's
story. March took out the loads
and pitched it over to Young on
ithe. bed. Chris Reed, March said
was at the window with a shot
Igun, but kept-out OF sight for fear
Young might recognize him, ac-
lcording to the officers report.
They sawed the lock off the