Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-12-15

! alley or went to the Kentucky
river that night. He said he was
! not on the Kentucky river that
= night or the next morning. He
| said he worked at the store I'M
! til 8 or 9 O'Clock, when he went
! tc North Middletown with Jas
Roberts. He said he hauled
lambs two days. He returned tc
| Winchester Thursday after that
! Monday he said, with load of
hay. Thursday, he said, he came
! to Winchester and first talked
to the police Thursday or Fri
day. He was first told that
/ Rcnaker was killed Thursday
when hauling lambs at Ahster-
! litz he said. He said F. w. Da-
! Wis told him he was likely to be
! called down to the police station.
He said he went to the police
station voluntarily. He said Null
! Inns stood up and said to him ::
"You are the only man in town
who knows who killed Leon
Renaker and you are going to
tell before YOU leave here" SEQ
lee said he told the chief he
didn't know anything about it.
, He said that then the men asked
him questions as fast as they
could about everything. He said
he made no objections to ans,
: wering any questions.
He said MIR. Slater had been
talking about finger prints and
he asked him then if he wantcG
bis finger prints. He said re
told the detective his h"ge-
prints were in Washington.
On August 10 he was arrest,
ed. lie said he never attempt
ed to get out of jail and had
never made a key for any other
person to use to get out Of Jai.
He admitted that young Davis
brought him files to be used il
making keys. He said Ja:ler Az,
bill gave him a file to lie used
in making peach seed baske,
while he was in the hospital. He
said he asked Oliver Davis to get
the files. He said he did not want
the keys any more than any of
the other fellows" He said Ben
Martin got an impression of the
keys to the girls ward. He said
Martin got the key from Jim
Skinner and drew the outline
tracing OF the key. He said he
helped file the key to open the
door from the girls room.
a string dropped through the
ventilator carried notes from the
women to the men prisoners, he
said. This was used to send UP
the key to the girls, he said.
Girls from the third floor came
down several nights after the
jailer went to bed, Hardman
said.
Schumacher, he said, told him
he would like to escape if he
didn't get u new trial, but didn't
know how we would get very far
without any money. He said he
never agreed to go with Schu-
maker and never planned an cs-
cape with Schumacher.
He denied telling Schumacher
he knew what Leon Renaker
was killed with and said he did.
not tell Schumacher that Reese
Fox didn't know as much about
it as he did, because ''hc waitedI
en- the outside"
He denied he ever cursed his
sister i'll Jail.
On cross examination Hard
man made dcnials of much of
the evidence that had been in
troduced by the commonwealth.
He said Saturday night was
the last time prior to the death
of Leon Renaker that he saw
Mr.. Renaker.. He denied that
he was at the overhead bridge
with Mrs. Renaker the Saturday
night before the murder. HcI
said he didn't know where lie
was that Saturday night.
He said he was not told that
Mr.. and Mrs. Renaker were 90
ing to Cincinnati OH the Sunday
before the murder. He went to
Austerlitz on the 1870 o'clock ,
train Sunday morning, he said.
and didnGt know whether the +,
train he was on went to Cincin- !
natl. Hardman said he brought !
Clyde Douglas to Winchester OH
Monday. Later he said he came
back to Winchester on the train.
to be here for the Davis birth
day party Monday night. Mon
day, Hardman said, he and two!
other boys went to the home oil
Mr.. and Mrs. Cook to get al