Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-11-11
Moonshine Raiders Tell
Of Trouble in Knox County

Doth presented their guns at Wln1fe!
and demanded:
(which one of you was on that rait
up here before? Are you the = y =
who sat down at my mothers tabi,
with your coat off and a pistol OF
you?"
Mcfarland said that he started tx
shoot when he saw Winfrey covered
by the two men, but he saw that il
would be death to both of them, anC
tried to talk to the men. He saic
they asked where Bob Young was
young is revenue man of Lon
DOM. When told he was not along
he said the Baileys said it was q
"damn lie and that the old = was
afraid to come along and sent you
instead"
The officers tried to parley with the
men, and said that seeing what they
were up against, they started to go
The Baileys said:
'Hold on, we're going, too," and
started down the branch with them.
They said that Jim Bailey wanted to
know how they got into that terri
tory, and if they found the still. They
told him they had not found the still,
but had cut up the furnace, whereup-
on Jim Bailey said:
"I can make more tubs. I've got
the still and 1 dare any man to stick
an axe in it"
Ashley proceeded along, Bev Bail
ey tried to learn if the officers had a
map or if a letter had been written
tipping off the still to the officers. He
wanted to know who was the captain
of the squad and who had the map.
He was told that no one had a map
and that the officers did not know who
had written about the still, as their
orders came solely from headquar-
ters.
A short way down the branch, they
met William Bailey, father of. the
boys. The older man yelled out:
"Whoopee, boys, Pm here, too" He
had shotgun the officers said. Two
other men, with pistols in their pock-
cts, were soon met in a fence corner
and they dropped in behind, and all
proceeded to Baileys' house. There
the officers say that Jim Bailey told
them:
eff you all want some whisky I'll
give you all you can drink and some
to take away with you, and I'll show
you the still and kill the man who
sticks an axe in it."
Jim Bailey had allowed Deputy Mar
shall Bash to ride his horse from
Dick Smiths to the Bailey house
where it was left; then the officers
went to a man named Riley for sup
per, and then to the station an Ha-
ven to catch a train for BaIbourville.
The officers said that Jim Bailey and
another man came to Riley's while
they were there and went into the
kitchen. When the officers had go:
ten into the railway coach, Jim Bail
ey came into the car, and flourishing
a bottle of moonshine whisky, and
with a pistol in his pocket, invited
them to take a drink, saying:
''I want to show you fellows some
of my whisky and to show you that
it's good. I'm moonsine maker and
a moonshine drinker and 1 want you
to see it's good"
The officers wouldn't drink, but
Bailey passed the bottle around in
sisting that they smell it.
Col. Bob Ford, of Middlesboro, who
to be in the same car, call
ed Jim Bailey over to him and told
him he'd offered the whisky to the
wrong man, and to go with him back
to the other coach. Jim Bailey ther
followed Col. Ford out, and did not
return where the officers We're, get
ting off at the next, station to go to
his home. Col. Ford was brought hero
as a defense witness. but was not put
on the stand. He told Daily Regis
ter representative, however, that if
he hadn't taken Jim Bailey back in
the other car he. knew there would
have been, a. killing, and no telling
how many, for the rear coach was
filled with mountaineers, most of
them friends Of the Baileys.
Attorney Burnam said TO Chief Nc
Farland on the stand:
you'll admit that you were badly
frightened, and don't know what
To which .McFaralnd snapped back
the reply:
"No, sir, / do not. I knew that ]
was in dangerous situation and
kept my head"
In response to District Attorney
Slattery's question as to why the
Baileys had not been arrested then,
Mcfarland replied, eve didn't think
we could do it. told the boys we
would get out the best way we could"