The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-23
M00NSH|MER TELLS
OF SHOOTING PR0H|
John H. Brite of Palisade Gives Up
After Long Crilling By Reno
Officers; Tells in Detail of
the Raid ON the Still

"If it wasn't for my wife and five
kiddies, | wouldn't have squealed.
I'd go to jail and do it with a smile
before I'd squeal on a friend-but,
God, I've got to think of the
family"
This was the statement of John
II. Brite. so, coming out of the
sheriff's office early this morning
after he had stood an hour and a
half's grilling by Sheriff j. D.
Hillhouse, Prohibition Director J.
P. Donnelly and United States
Marshal ]. H. Fulmer in connection
with the shooting of Officer Atha
cNick") Carter at Palisade. in a
midnight gun battle with moon
sinners Tuesday.
Robert F. Raine, As, believed by
the authorities to be the man who
fired the shot that struck Carter,
had, up until o'clock this morn
ing, refused to admit any knowl-
edge of the affair. Up until this
hour, he remained defiant and de-
clared he had no connection with
the nights events. He said. dur
ing two hour grilling, that he did
not know of the shooting on his
property until he was informed by
his brother, who lives near him. If
there was a still on his ranch, he
was ignorant of it, he declared.
Shortly after o'clock. after
Brite had made his alleged confess
sion, Raine was again taken in
hand by the officers for another
quizzing.
In reply to questions regarding
the dead horse found near his
house Wednesday morning, Raine
when first questioned, said that the
animal, thought shot by the officers,
had been sick for several days and
he had been compelled to shoot it.
He admitted that he had received
a telephone call at his ranch house
late Tuesday night and a strange
voice told him to dump the stuff u
He didn't know what "stuff, !"
though. he said. He hung up the
receiver and went back to bed.
The light seen in his cabin by off
GERS, he said, was evidently that
in the room of Mrs. Brite, whose
hah hu oh l. 4
he was absolutely innocent of any
crime, and attributed the affair in
which he is held as the principal,
to "frame-up" on the part of
Henry Webb, rural mail carrier
trapper and rancher, who is said to
have furnished the prohibition Off
GERS with the information concern
ing the still on the Raine ranch
and who drove them from Palisade
in his automobile.
While Raine was being examined d
a second time by the federal officers
and the sheriff, Brite talked freely
of his activities at Palisade.
81 made good whiskey," he con-
fded to the group in the sheriff s
office. 81 learned how to do it in
Kentucky. 1t was good stuff, we
got SIS a gallon for it."
He smiled as he said this and
then his face clouded. "I've got
to think of the wife and kiddies
They won't sleep tonight"
A later report says:
With complete alleged confessions
of Robert F. ("Bob"O Raine, Eu-
reka county cattle rancher, and
John Brite, accused with him in
firing on prohibition officers anc
wounding Atha ("Nick'o Carter
Tuesday night near Palisade, ir
hand, officers of the law feel the
preparation of evidence in the case
is now complete.
Raine was in a state of complete
breakdown yesterday following
statement of his companion ths
previous evening in which, accord
ing to Sheriff ]. d. Hillhouse, Brite
admitted completely in the shooting
md whiskey making on the ranch
2aine's condition yesterday was in