Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-04-26
REAL Rum RUNNING
CASE ON IN COURT
Judge Cochran Quits Moonshin-
ers For the Eonce 10 Try
Boys Who Play Big Game

Perhaps the most extensive
violation of the prohibition law
that has yet been tried before til,
US. Court in the Eastern distric
OF Kentucky, was taken up short
u ly befre noon Wednesday wher
: 10 defendants charged with rob
bing the d. L. Moore distillery il
Mercer county were placed OF
trial before Judge Cochran.
A formidable array of attor-
neys appeared to defend them
headed by Glenn w. Higgins, OF
Louisville. Other attorneys are
former Lieut.. Gov. Lillard H. Car
ter. Of Lawrenceburg, Brent
Overstreet, H. NJ. Leakins and
Sam w. Anderson. all of Louis
vile.
The ten defendants who are al
legged by the prohibition officers
to be among the boldest rum run
ners in this section of the coun-
try, are Hum Collins, Joseph,
Louis and Richard Brashear,
John w. Boggess, Ed Austin,
John B. Gordon, Victor J. Norton
and J. Miller Watson, white men
and Henry MCCutcheon, coloreI,
of Louisville.
After a bill of particulars has
been furnished by District Attor-
ey Sawyer a. Smith, selection of
the jury to try the men began
just before noon adjournment.
Previous to entering into the
trial of this case, Judge Cochran
had endeavored to try the cases
of Ike Miller, John T. McAtee
and Louis Kay, charged with con
spiracy and transporting liquor.
Attorneys a. r. Burnam and J. J.
Greenleaf, of Richmond, D. Gray
FalCOner and Bailey b. Berry, ap-
peared for the defendants and de-
manded a bill of particulars. This
motion was granted and the cases
set for hearing after noon. Then
the Hum Collins and company
cases were entered into, and it
seemed probable that they would
consume considerable time.
Tudoe Cochran cleared I'D 4
number of the minor cases just
before starting the work on this
case. Henry Hopkins. of Berea,
who has been sick in jail here, en-
tered a plea of guilty to possess
ing liquor and was given a fine of
500. The bond of Preston Agee
was declared forfeited when he
failed to answer to his name. The
charge against &c. Marcum was
nolled. A fine OF 500 was ass
essed against Jeff Settles on a
plea of guilty to possessing IL
quor. He was found at a moon
shine still. Settles, it seems. is
here on a visit from Arizona. His
attorney sought a smaller fine on
the ground that he is a long way
from home ard railroad fares are
high. but Judge Cochran let it
stand. The case against Dewey
Houp for breaking into a freight
car at Kings Mountain, was trans
ferred to London for trial. Forest
Upton and Arch Spicer. of Estill
county, were fined 500 each for
possessing liquor. Ison Fender.
negro, whom Sheriff Deatherage
captured with a lot of whisky in
his car, entered written plea of
guilty. He was freed in circuit
court on the ground that the
sheriff did not have a search war
rant at the time he looked in the
car and. found the booze.
1t looked like Prohibition Di-
rector Sam Collins had moved
state prohibition headquarters to
Richmond when federal court
convened after lunch Tuesday
afternoon. Director Collins has
been here himself ready to tes-
tify in several of the "big" cases
and he is flanked by Judge B. ].
Bethurum, of Somerset, his 1e-
gal adviser, and half dozen or
so of his agents, including Nc
Farland, White, Wakefield, Lu-
Glen Burnam and several others.
These were expected to testify
in the cases against Ike Miller,
John c. McAtee and Louis Kay,
charged with conspiracy regard
ing the Dowling distillery in An
derson county. This case was
called Tuesday but upon repre-
sentations of Attorney ]. J.
Greenleaf, representing two OF
the defendants, was postponed
until Wednesday. The defend
ants are indicted for transport
ing, possessing and conspiring to
forge permits for the removal
; of liquors from the Dowling dis
tillery., Judge Greenleaf argued
long for continuance, but