Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-05-03
RuCKER CASE
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was the same.
Capt. Mullikin testified he went
to Oscar Fuckers fathers house
and found a shot gun, the right
barrel of which had recently bee,
shot, still very moist inside, but
the left barrel didn't show it had
been shot. He said the stock
the gun had some mud clay Oh i,
the same color as The clay over
there where he had found the i'm
print of the butt OF the gun in the
clay near the shooting.
Asked if he had had any cor
versation with Fuckers mother,
he. stated she said her boy could
not have had anything to do wits
the shooting because he was sit
ting at the supper table when the
report of the shot was heard, ano
that she later said he came i.
with a gun at three o'clock and
had been out hunting and didn',
90 out of the house after that
time.
Asked if Oscar Rucker had
made any statement over at Mi.
CARROTS house as to what time
he left home, Or where he was at
the time of the shooting, he said
he was at his grand mother s-or
rather at the little store kept By
his grandmother. His father said
he came III about dark and sat
down by the safe between the
safe and the wall, and he heard
the shot, and that the boy had
just gone on out on this little
pike, just out of the yard, and fad
started walking UP the pike whes
he heard the shot fired. Aske j
if Rucker made any statement
there about when he came in he
said he changed his statement
about being out with the gun and
said he came in about 4 o'clock
and had not been out after that
said he had been out hunting.
When asked when he first mes
Rucker over at Mr.. CARROTS
what he said, Mullikin testified
Rucker said he had not been
hunting or used the gun for sew
eral days.
The witness testified that his
dogs were English blood hounds.
and on this occasion he had with
him two of the dogs, and they
were pedigreed, dogs and had
been thoroughly trained. One
was past eight years old and the
other, one three years.. He said
lie had trained. them to, trail htl-
man scents, and that they wouiA
trail the scent WhetherTany tracks
were about or not, and that one
Ct the dogs had had seven years
training in criminal work and the
other one two years. He said
that he took these dogs on this
occasion and started them on the
scent at the tracks there at the
rayine where he found some OF
the tracks and the wads of paper
from the gun, and the dogs went
off down the ravine and down to
that hollow where the willows
SroW and up around to the wire
fence and UP to that house and
then came back and went down
the pike and followed in the pike
TO where his automobile was, and
then he brought them back here
to see if. they would take a trail
in a different direction and they
brought the trail down to this
wire fence and then down to this
house where | found the Rucker
boy, and 1 asked Rucker to come
out and go with me. On reach
ing the house and when Rucker
came both of the dogs went up
to him"
When asked the habit and
training of the dogs when they
find the party whom they are
witness stated they will
always go; to the person and
make a demonstration; that is,
smell Of the feet and body:of the
onei they are trailing, whereas
they will not notice anybody else
in the crowd. that the dogs are
trained against. being vicious and
are naturally docile and mild ami
mails. Witness testified he found
the sheels in Fuckers gun corr
responded with the wads@ he had
had found, and ,was a ,No#3, and
that he examiped the shots III the
shell and they were theRsame:
The next witness, ex-Sheric P
S. TWhitlock, coFroborated the.
statements of Capt. Mullillin,