Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-12-21
Deiay In Returning Piercy From
Lexington and Man Who
4. Confessed To Wells Crime
Has Examining Trial
Here Wednesday

] Thomas Keith, OF Lexington
/ known as Mickey. who confessed
u helping Lawrence Percy and
Monk Wilson. also Of Lexington
abduct Peter ". Wells from Col
lcgc iill on the night OF Dec. 2
and also told how PicrCy tried
a. ~looi ~ els was to death. was
lc.l 10 await action Of the grand
irr1 under $4,000 bond BY Judge
49, X Price in county court
Acdue~da, 5itcrnoon. The fed
crai officers were late in getting
back from Lexington with PicrcN
50 the trial OF Keith was entered
-nt. nr-t
Night Chef oi Police Eruc>'
Icmn~ou. of Lexington. later
r.auncd Dcputy Sheriff SAINT Bush
NJ CommiSSioncr &. \. Wizard.
: ho headed the party which took
-crcs tp Lexington. had mo-.
fei returned trom Louisville
Gc. Thompson said no cifort
or'i hc made to bring Pierre,
itck hire till probably Thursday
When Judge Price was inform
, I'D Tins state oi affairs. hc sa
would ,hcn defer PicrcN'S cN
riu--C trial until hc l. hrough
before him. whenever that ma
Ir Ia = expected by the officer,
i.,yever. that the trial will b
l,.i either Thursday or Friday
The Keith Trial
.rrat crowd which packc,
g.. 'eve. c.ITt room in cverN
iagr of IL ~pace was on han,
rr,rr~ t.vt,rc the trial was called.
81, in;,u~, l. the interest in this
cr;tuc. Lv.,h did not ask for =
O. represent him. but ar
ac-i Dc va rcady for trial.
'tt.u.,s = * Eurnam and Coun
g.. tt-vcucv a.. J.. Jackson con
.jcf the prosecution.
Both Wells and Keith gave in
. tine same stories that they
alG before the latter N his CON
:, ~-iun which was fled with the
u-rt. So, that hc might not have
.o 1o through with it again. On
u.r-, examination By Mr.. Bur
--.'. however. a number OF ad-
'.l-r.ral iacts were cliCitcd from
N-ilh Thc man said that he
,a- pTaru-ally crazy" at the
ii.uc. arG couldn't iemcmbcr lots
th-, bapl-ca@d Keith entered a
l'.5 pi ro- .tiliv 40 tho three
r,-- - agam>' !.In
Wen, Was put on the stand
Er-t. Tie said that his home i at
Hrru, i.cavcil. GIrrard county,
b1, that ON the night OF the crime
hc was with his cousin. Walter
Wells. who lives near Cane
Spring. about four miles from
College Hill. lie said he was IN
the house with the family. ano
that they were attracted by =
car stopping outside. and a horT
blowing. They noticed the very
bright lights OF the car. Wells
aid hc looked out. and the car
remained there for about tel,
minutes and then he went out.
some one halloed TO the house
When he got there one asked
'l> thi, where L. W. Wells lives :
Wells said there were three
men in the car. One got out and
same uD against the fence. Wells
continued: They said that la
Gv named Mrs. McCreary or
Gregory, of Lexington. had come
over TO see me on business
matter; but that she had gotten
hart in an accident with the car
and they had come on out after
wc.
Il studied awhile and then told
them | couldn't go; that l had
10 way to go"
In response to 4 question Wells
said that he recognized Piercy
and Keith as two of the men. He
said that Piercy did the talking
To him. Keith was sitting II
the car on the front seat, he said
The third man, who IS alleged to
have been Monk Wilson, got out
and walked around the car. Wells
said he himself walked around it
One OF them said they needed
some water for the car and in
quired if they could get it further
down the road. Wells said that
he told them he could get il .fol
them and went in after a bucket
OF water. Wells said that thS
third man-Wilson-put the wa
ter in the radiator OF the car.