Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-10-25
LEXINGTON WOMAN
IS FINED $500
For Smuggling A Pistol, Saws
and Whisky To Lawrence
Piercy While In Jail Here

was fined $500 by d jury in cir
cult court Tuesday on a charge
of attempting to assist Lawrence
Piercy to escape while confined in
the Madison county jail awaiting
trial of the charge of abducting
and attempting to kill P. NJ.
Wells. Piercy, it will be recalled,
yas given Is years in the peniten-
tentiary and his case affirmed by
the Court of Appeals.
The Commonwealth introduced
as its witnesses several men who
had been in the jail with Piercy,
who said they saw Mrs. Paul
smuggle a pistol, some saws and
whisky to Piercy. Mrs. Paul
defended by Attorney J. Franklin
Wallace, of Lexington.
Deputy Jailer George Rogers
testified that Oh several occasions
he had admitted Mrs. Paul to
the jail to see Piercy and her
companions, Mrs. Dora Stinnett
and Miss D. Gaines, the latter a
daughter of Mrs. Paul by her
first husband, and claimed By
Mrs. Paul to be a sweetheart OF
Piercv. Mr.. Rogers said he
found some saving had been done
in the jail, found one OF the
large bars sawed in two, and that
he had information that Piercy
had some saws brought to him.
On searching he found a saw in
the back part Of the jail hidden
behind a water closet.
Charley Dudley, who had acted
as turnkey at the jail for short
time this spring, testified that h
had found saw in the toilet at
the jail.
VIII White, who was placed in
jail the day Piercy's visitors, Mrs.
Paul and companions, first went
to see him there, said he was 4,
first cellmate OF Piercy until ne
found he had a pistol and some
saws and whisky, and he got
afraid of him and asked the jail
er to place him elsewhere. White
said he saw the lady whom he
identified as Mrs. Paul. hand
through the bars Of the Jail the
diamond saws which were wrap
ped up IN paper; that she had ia
ken them from her bosom. and
that he brought this package in
and laid it on his (Piercy's) bed.
and then went back to the win
dow. White said he again saw
Mrs. Paul hand Piercy another
package, which when Piercy had
brought it in, he said it was nj
t1o-glycerine. The witness SAID
he thought he would see what
was in the package as Piercy had
told him not to touch it. as it
was dangerous. So, he concluded
he didn't want anything SO dan
gerous as nitro-gycerlne about
him and on examination he found
the saws in one package and
whisky in the other, and it was
then he requested another cell be
given him.
Tom Collins, another inmate of
the jail at the time the women
visited Piercy, said he saw Mrs. I
Paul bring Piercy a gun, which
she had wrapped up with twine
string around it; that she pulled
it out of her bosom and handed
it to Piercy who brought it in his
cell and put it under his cot. lie
also said he had seen her time
or two bring some whisky to
Piercy.
Buddie Itson, another prisoner
at the time, said he had seen
Mrs. Paul hand Piercy a pistol
and some whisky. When asked if
he saw any mark on the butt OF
the pistol he said the serial num-
Der had been cut out, and inthis
way he identified the pistol in
court as the one Piercy had in
his cell at the jail.
Joe Lakes said that Piercy had
given him the pistol and asked
him if he would buy it. Asked if.
he recognized, the pistol, he said
it favored it, but that there were
so many alike he could not be
certain.
At the close Of the Common
wealth's evidence the defendant
asked for a peremptory instruc--
ton which was overruled by the
court. Mrs. Paul then took the
stand. She said she came to the
Madison county jail to see Law
renee Piercy, accompanied on the
three occasions by her daughter,
Miss D. Gaines, and her friend,
Mrs. Dora Stinnett. She claim
ed that she brought Piercy bas-
ket of food, a box of cigarettes
and two boxes of matches and
that her visit was purely on ac-
count of her daughter, who had