The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-07-29
LAKE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT
CLOSES LONG TERM

Languishing in the Lake County jail
here, starting on a four-months' sen.
tence imposed on a charge of oper.
ating an Illicit still and facing foul
other indictments on similar charges
Mr.. Winters has his two sons tc
thank for his predicament.
The Winters live at Mooring, six
miles south of here. Reports reach
ing TiptonVille said the elder Win
| tiers had been making whiskey and
that his sons urged him to discon-
tinue it. They appeared before the
grand jury at the present court term
and it was through their testimony
that the father was indicted. They
are then said to have guided officers
to the still.
Winters was tried, and on con-
viction fined $50 and costs and SEN
fenced to four months in Jail. He
will be tried on the other four in
dictments at the next term of court
in November.
Another case that attracted wide
attention here was that of Marvin
Craig and Dennis Laird, white and
Ike Bryant, John Barksdale, Shan
ME Hicks, Will Redmond, Fannie
Hicks, Katie Underwood and Laura
Hunter, all negroes. They were
charged in eight indictments with
highway robbery and attempt to
murder in connection with the rob-
berry and attack on Henry Wallie,
fisherman on the Mississippi River
near Tiptonville, and robbery of a
number of stores at, Ridgely. Craig,
Shannie Hicks and Ike Bryant have
been in jail since the robberies, but
the others have been at liberty on
bond.
Craig and Bryant were convicted
Wednesday of robbing the jewelry
store of Pat Hooper at Ridgely and
were given sentences of from three
to 10 years in the penitentiary.
Craig and Laird were tried at the
last term of court on a charge of
robbing Cox & Sons store at Ridge
ly, their trial resulting in a hung
jury.
After the trial Wednesday of Craig
and Bryant, Laird confessed to the
series of robberies anG implicated
Craig and Bryant. The State agreed
that if Craig and Bryant would ac-
cept the sentences of from three to
10 years the other charges would
be dropped. Laird had been at lib
erty on $4,000 bond, but after his
confession the bond was raised to
$4,000. He will be tried at the next
term of court on charge of high
way robbery.
The other negroes, with the ex-
ceEtion of Bryant, were freed.
]. Henry Docly, charged with en-
bezzling $1,000 from H. G. McMil-
Ian, and arrested after country
wide search, was declared not
guilty. Dooly's case caused consid-
cradle comment, as there was hard
ly any proof against him. He was
formerly employed by Maxwell as
and cashier at a garage |
One night he disappeared with his
wife and child and was missing two
and half months.
His arrest was effected when he
appeared in Jacksonville, Fla, to
cash check on a Tiptonville bank.
Two hundred dollars reward had
been offered for his arrest and con-
viction.
The present term of court, which
has been in session two weeks, is
The longest in it's history. A picked /
Jury, selected by Attorney General
r. o. Morris was specifically in
,tructed to round up bootleggers and
Illicit still operators. Three stills
nave been captured since court be-
gan and more than 100 indictments
nave been returned, the majority of
hem having to do with liquor law