Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-11-11
THREE CONVICTED IN
RAISED BILL CASES
Young Men of Madison County
Learn 1t Is Dangerous To
Foo With Uncle Sam

How dangerous it is to fool with
Uncle Sam in any way has been
learned by Will Hays and Robert and
George Withers, young men of the
Big Hill section of Madison county.
All three were found guilty in federal
court here Wednesday of attempting
to pass "raised" federal bank notes
They will be sentenced by Judge
Cochran just before court closes.
These convictions are the result of
the appearance at several places in
the county last summer of bank notes
which were found, to be palpalby
spurious when received by various
business men. Bank notes of 81 in
denomination had been clumsily
"raised" to $40 notes by pasting on
| figures 10 over the 1 on the notes and
otherwise altering them. Hays tried
to pass such note upon A. C. Dan
iels, merchant at Kingston, and up,
on the Welch Department store at
Berea, and the testimony showed that
/ Robert Withers tried to pass a SINH
lar note upon S. @. Uainhart, near
Berea, and Mrs. Sallie Fowler, who
/ conducts a store at Big HILL Gov
ernment Agent Malley and other fed
eral officers are of the opinion that
| Hays is the one who has been doing
the raising" and that he gave somo
of the spurious bills TO the Withers
boys, who are only Is and 10 yeare
of age, respectively, to try to pass.
The trial Of the Withers boys
was still in progress when the Daily
Registers report closed late Wednes-
day.
Taylor Lawes. of Big Hill, said he
met Robert and George Withers at
Berea after returning from his
honeymoon in Jellico, Tenn He told
/ of meeting the boys and they start,
ling out with him and his wife, With
the Withers boys on the front seat
He said one of the Withers boys said,
"We'd better get quart of wine,"
and one of them handed him "a pocket
book and said, seThe money is in it.
And they got out at Lainhart's and
81 told him we wanted a quart of
wine. The old man poured out
glass of wine and George told me to
drink it and see if it was good. ]
opened the pocketbook and saw bill
of money in it. 1 didn't know wheth-
er it was good money or bad money.
George looked at me and grinned
I And as Id heard before about efforts
to pass some money that was said to
be bad, 1 handed the pocketbook to
George and went out and got in the
car, and George came out in a minute
with a bundle of money in his hand
and he and Bob were whispering and
talking with one another"
Lawes said he then went on home
to Big Hill, and when the sheriff
came out he thought it was about him
marrying, as he had run away into
Tennessee. He said: 'I knew that
was all had done they could get me
for"
On cross-examination, NLawes said
he had a gun laying on the seat Of
the car. but he wasn't drinking. Ho
said that after he had seen George
grin, and he had thought that was up
he gave George the pocketbook that
they had given him. Asked if it was
wine or cider he had gotten at Lain
hart's, he said he didn't know, but it
tasted like it had red pepper in it.
Miss Ersie Lawes, sister of Taylor
Lawes, said she was in the auto with
her BROTHER his wife and the two
Withers' boys. She said the Withers
boys said they all could ride out. She
said Robert and George Withers were
whispering and Robert Withers hand
ed her brother his pocketbook and
said go get some wine. She said the
Withers boys were whispering after
they got back to town and talking
about how much money they had. She
said her brother carried the purse in
his hand until they go in the store.
Miss. Lawes said on cross-examina-
ton that she went with her brother
and his wife on their honeymoon. She
said she and her brother had not talk |
ed over the case. She said she didn't |
see her brother have pistol, nor did !
she try to jerk it out of his hand. She
said she didn't remember seeing him
waving it around and threatening to
shoot his father-in-law if he bothered
him.
Mrs. Jewella Lawes, wife of Taylor
Lawes, told about the same story of
meeting the Withers boys in Berea
as she and her husband returned from
their honeymoon She said Robert
Withers gave her husband a pocket
book and told him to get a quart of
the best wine. She said Robert said
to George: Don't never think I can't
work trick"