The Little River news., 1922-11-29
INCONSISTENCIES ATTACK
 AND MURDER RYAN
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away IFOnl lTOuDle. 1uAS 10 the A''oI that was ever seen of Throckmorto |! alive by them. From scraps Of teStl- mony here and there it seems that the woman was also following along after her husband. Mrs. Owens and Taylor have been under cross fire for days nd nights. It seems that they have admitted that Owens killed Throck- morton, but throw no light on where the body was hid. It was not believed up to Monday that they had told all they knew. The eternal query in the minds of the citizenship of two coun- ties has for several days been-Where? It is the thing that is fraying over strained nerves-Where?
 Arrests Are Made.
 It was Friday night, or late after noon. when Sheriff Bob Pierce was notified, and after the kenie Waidrop and party had returned from the OW- ems place. He quickly with his depu ties organized a large posse of citizens and went to the scene. The large cit i2en posse was left at a mill three miles away to wait orders while smaller party with the officers went On to the Owens place, where they arrested Owens, his wife, Taylor and Lovewell. Terry was arrested on the Wilton road the same night by Sher- if Wm Wallace of Seyier county aft CT the arrests the prisoners were rush. ed to Ashdown and placed in jail. The large party at the mill then moved up to the Owens place and spent the night there to await the coming of day to begin the search for the missing Throckmorton.
 Big Search Begins.
 Jas. G. Sanderson is placed in charge of the searching party with headquart- CTS at the Owens place, where lie has remained day and night since sending out organized searchers and cooperat- ing with the sheriffs office, which with Prosecuting Attorney Geo. R. Steel. is operating at this end, the sheriff going back back and forth as the occasion demands. Saturday morning the party at the river was joined by a larger party and the real search was begun ill a systematic manner Parties with boats were dragging the river with hooks while others were beating the woods on eith- side Of the river. About mile below ! the house the coat of the missing man was found hanging on a snag in the river but on the wrong side to have i washed there by the current. Other | wise there was not a trace, Sunday . the crowds ran up into the hundreds from all towns in this c0un- ty and over the country. The woods | were filled with searcher8 from Se yier county Long lines of men abreast and about 20 feet apart combed the woods all day for miles on both sides but not trace. Beats piled the river at the same time and nothing was found. Sheriff Wallace and deputies from Sevior county have been cooper , ating in the work.
 Stills Are Found. f
 While searching the woods Of the | Sevier county side Saturday two stills were found by members of the partise Kenie WaldrOp found a thirty gallon | still across from the Owens place near what is known as the upper Miller place. At the small still seven bar rels of mash was found This still had recently been in operation and the in- dicatiOns were that it had been in ser i vice for some time. Lower down the | river Lillard Johnston found a large still Of about 60 gallons capacity near what is known as the Dolph or lower Miller place. It was in the edge of an old field and in a thiCket of briars and | weeds. r was set in a large bowl ] shaped hole ten feet deep, the edges O: which made ideal breastworks A bedroll and provisions were found | there. This still was a new one and ] not fully installed. Three barrels of mash was found at this place, showing | that it was soon to be put into opera tion. Armed men watched this still | into the night, but no one appeared. ! Both stills were dismantled and takeb into camp. The remains of an old | still was found at another place. Sev- l eral sets were found at various places ! on the Sevier county side It seemed that this was & moonshiner's paradise. l Many reports have come from this section of the bottoms during the ! past two years. Numerous hunting parties have been said to have been ordered out of these woods at the point of guns One crew of timbermen is 1 said to have been forced to leave while