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

25c. lower; tops S12.75; sheep 90;
steady and unchanged.
had pistol in the seat, but had made
no threats against her father. Viii
liam hatcher. She said she was mar
ried June Is at $50 a. m.
Guy Neeley, aged Is, who lives at
Big Hill, said Roberts Withers gave
him a $40 and told HIM to go to the
store of Sallie Fowler at Big Hill and
get two pounds of sugar Neeley
said he handed the boy the money and
he said he couldn't give the change.
He said his mother came and looked
at it and said they couldn't change.
He said he then looked at it and saw
it was a 81 bill with some los pasted
on it. He said Mrs. Fowler told him
to take it back and give it to Robert
Withers, which he did. He said he
told Robert they wouldn't give him
change on it as it was counterfeit. He
said Robert ,Withers had him go with
him, telling him he wanted him to
set tobacco, but after he came back
Robert said it was raining and they
couldn't set out tobacco. He said it
was raining when Robert hired him.
too.
Mrs. Sale Fowler, who runs store
at Big Hill, told about Guy Neeley
coming to her store to buy sugar. She
said her son said, ''That's a funny $40
BILL" so she looked at it and saw it
wasn't genuine, and gave it back to
Guy.
George Withers, one of the defend
ants, was then put on the stand He
said he is Is years of age. He said
he and his brother bought a quart of
wine from Lainhart for rs cents ard
they paid 81 bill and got back a
quarter. He then said then met Tay-
lor Lawes and his wife and they went
to Lainhart's for another quart. He
told the same story as Taylor Lawes
about paying Lainhart for the wine,
but said the reason he and his brother
were whispering was that Taylor
Lawes was waving his. pistol and say
ing he was going to kill his father
in-law, and he was telling his brother
to drive fast. He said Taylor seemed
half drunk. He said he had never ex-
amined the bill he gave Lainhart and
didn't know there was anything
wrong with it. He said there was NO
''kick" in the wine they got from
Lainhart.
Robert Withers, VIII said he is if
years old, told about the same story
of meeting the Lawes, and how he
gave Taylor Lawes his pocketbook to
get wine, as Taylor. looked like he
was broke. He said after they cama
back with the wine Taylor seemed
like he was drunk, and was threaten
ing to kill his father-in-law if he
said anything to him. He said Tay-
lor's wife was crying and his sister
had hold of him, too, and that he
to his brother to drive fast
up the hill. Withers said he had got
ten money at several places before
that; that Ben Boen had paid him
two $40 bills for logging and he had
gotten $40 from the bank.
In regard to the Neeley boys story
he said he gave the boy the money to
get the sugar, but he brought it back
and said it was no good, and that he
looked at it then and saw the bill was
no good. He said he'd never seen
any bad money before that. On cross
examination, he said Boen paid him
two $40 bills for logging. He said
he'd also gotten one $40 bill at the
Berea Bank & Trust Company. OF
the $50, Withers said he had spent
$40, and he didn't know which was
the one he had left. He said he'd
gotten all three $40 bills the same
day.
Robert Withers admitted he was
with Will Hays the day Hays passed
a bad $40 bill on Mr.. Daniels. They
were in the Withers' car. He denied
that Will Hays had supplied him with
raised $40 bills to be passed. He said
ne didn't know where he'd gotten the
$40 bill that he'd given Guy Neeley
to pass on Mrs. Fowler; that after he
got back home tore off the los that
we're pasted on it and burned them
Up in the cooking stove. He told diff
ferences in the two spurious bills.
M. B. Settle, of Big Hill, testified
that the reputation of both Robert
and George Withers for truth and
good moral character was good.
J. w. Hudson, near Big Hill, gave
he two boys good regulations, also.
This concluded the evidence. Judge |
Cochran submitted the charge of
passing the bill to the jury, which |
brought in verdict of guilty for
10Th boys.