The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-06-21

PEDDLED RUM
Youth on Trial for Staying
"Ran' Whiskey in Maine,
) Intimate Swears.
CALLS HIM "VERY BRIGHT"
Mind Is Wonderful Along Line
of Mechanics, U. S. Wit
-. ness Declares.

That John McHenry, the twenty.
year-old youth on trial for his life in
Criminal Court for the staying OF De-
'tsctive Sergeant James Armstrong
gave up a Job in Providence, r. /,
paying him q weekly salary Of ap
proximately $4S to become a run
runner between Maine and Canada
was the testimony this morning ol
William B. Lamborn, who was en-,
gagged with McHenry in the manufac.
ture OF brooms at the Eastern Broom
Factory in Providence. w.
Lamborm testified that McHenry
was the fastest broom worker he
knew. that the boy averaged a wage
OF IS a day while working in the
Providence factory. He also said Nc
Henry. in his opinion. was Of normal
mind and that he was Every. very
bright"
WONDERFUL MECHANIC.
/"McHenry had q wonderful mechan
icaI mind" said Lamborm. HE was
familiar with the mechanism Of guns
revolvers, automo biies and other sorts
OF motors. Even while he worked at
the factory, McHenry was a rum run
ner. He told me he bought whiskey
in Providence at $1.T5 q quart. and
sold It in Maine for 80 and 81 a quart
! On one occasion, when he returned
from a trip to Maine, he displayed q
~Ad Of money. I asked him where
be got it. He told me by bootieggins g
In Maine. He said he intended to dc
business on . huge scale-that he was
tpla nning to buy a motorcycle with
a side car and that he intended to
load it with whiskey and take 1t into
Maine.
II suggested that he was going to
take a big chance, but he replied:
I'm not worried about that
They will have to convict me, and
then they'll send me to Atlanta"
KNEW ABOUT RISKS.
At this point in Lamborms testi
mony, the prosecution intended to de-
velop that McHenry fully realized the
chances he was about to take, that he
would be sent to prison II he was
caught, and that he was willing TO
take that chance.
To emphasize that McHenry was a
fearless youth, Lamborm stated that
the boy became involved in a heated
+ argument with a Polish employe of
the broom factory, a man of advanced
)Age and much larger than McHenry.
81 told McHenry that he had better
leave the fellow alone" the witness
said. But he replied: I've got some
thing in my pocket that will drop
him IL he bothers me"
"McHenry always carried a large
I.bunch OF keys" said Lamborm. He
could open any door. McHenry told
while he lived at the Y. NJ. c. A. in
Providence, he had a key which would
open any door In the building"
PUT FOUR IN HOSPITAL.
On another occasion, according to
the witness, McHenry appeared at the
broom factory, his clothes spattered
with mud. "I asked him what had
happened to him" said Lsmborm.
-McHenry replied that he had been in
Boston, had stolen an automobile, and
while being pursued by police had
crashed into another automobile. He
said: Il have just put four in a hos
; pital. but I escaped injury"
Upon cross-exspination OF the wit
ness by Attorney samuel McComas
Hawken, Lamborm said he did not re-
port the fact that McHenry carried a
pistol or his rum running or the cpl
sodes about the automobile theft and
accident to the police.
I.amborm also testified that Nc
Henry sold twelve pairs of new shoes
at s1.70 a pair. and that he frequently
brought to the shop automobile acces-
sories and other articles. Lamborm
said McHenry explained that the arti.
.cles had been "given to him.
D DODGED DRAFT.
McHenry told Lamborm that he es-
~sped the draft because he had work
cd in a torpedo station at New Lon
don, Conn.
James p. Green. a handwriting Iex-
pert. Identified McHenry's signature.
attached to the confession the de-
fendant made to the police following
the shooting at Union Station Of De-
tective Armstrong and the killing of
wallace w. Mulcare, automobile ac-
cessories dealer. He also identified
other handwriting OF the boy.
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