Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-04-24
LIQUOR CASES ABOUT
ALL ON DOCKET
For April Term of Federal Court
Opened Monday-Moore Dis
tillery Case Up

With a docket which is COM
posed almost entirely of viola
tions of the prohibition laws
Fedora Judge A. M. J. Cochran
confined his charge to the grand
jury when he opened the April
term of u. S. court here Monday
afternoon, to ilnpressing upon the
members their duty in enforcing
the Volstead law. He admitted
some people do not like the law,
but as for himself, personally he
believed it is a splendid law and
will accomplish great good for
the country, he said.
The grand jury is composed Of
Brock Campbell, of Etsill; M. F.
Arbuckle, of Madison; Luther
Brumheld, of Jessamine; Jack
Wagers, of Madison; w. R. Dill
lion, of Lincoln; T. T. Flynn, of
Estill ; Forrest Stapp, of Garrard !;
Tom Jackson and M. T. Minor,
OF Boyle; a. R. Carter, of Gar
rard; Jesse Townsend, of Powell; !;
James Reynolds, of Lincoln !;
Charles Hatton, OF Powell; S. ?.
Bergman, of Jessamine and Vim.
Stephens, of Powell.
The petit juries are composed
of; George Upton, of Powell :
Coleman Cox, of Estill; D. c. Big
gerstaff, of Madison; Johnnie
Woodard, of Powell B. F. Broat
dus, of Garrard; L. c. Bryant, OF
Jessamine; Millard Ham, of Gar
rard; D. B. Biackford. of Jessa-
mine; John Land, of Garrard:
Sam B. Cecil. of Boyle. G.. c. Cox
of Madison; d. NJ. Anderson. OF
Lincoln; J. r. Dunbar, of Madi-
son; John Scott, Of Powell; Nick
Arthur, of Powell; Buford VIII
son. of Estill Ben Calico, of Gar
rard; George Marsee, of Garrard
Lonna Padgett, of Lincoln; Vim
Lair, of Lincoln; s. S. Baker, OF
Jessamine; Roy Bishop, of Jessa
mine; Dave Cobb, of Madison: 7
d. Pope, OF Lincoln; Shelf Nc
Kinney, of Estill; Luther Burrus
of Madison; Earl Baker. of Lin
coin; w. n Fades. of Richmond
u. S. Marshal Roy Williams,
twin brother of Reed Williams,
is here handling his first court
IN Richmond. He is said to be
the youngest Z. S. Marshal i'll
the country. He has his own
crew Of deputies, including w. NJ
Burgess, of this city. Owen
Douglas, of Madison county, was
appointed doorkeeper. Clerk 7.
". Menzies and his efficient
force of deputies were on hand
early.
The civil docket was disposed
of within a few minutes, practi-
cally all cases being continued.
Efforts were made to try two or
three of the criminal cases, but
witnesses failed to answer in
several and all went over to
Tuesday morning.
Attorney Bensinger, of Louis
vile, sought to have the seizure
and search warrant issued
against the d. L. Moore Distil-
lery set aside. He argued there
was no provision under the pro-
hibition law or in the revenue
law to seize whisky in distil-
lery which is already under con-
troll of the government. District
Attorney Sawyer Smith said that
he believed the government did
have this right when it could be
shown that part of this whisky
had been removed for illegal
disposition" and when the gov
ernment had proof that efforts
were being made to remove the
remainder. This is the distillery
from which the whisky was re-
moved that was captured, taken
to Taylorsville and then stolen
from the courthouse there and
for which county officials of
Spencer county are under indict-
ment. The distllery is said to