Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-08-17

Winchester, KY, Aug II =
Reese Fox, arrested yesterday OF
charge of comp picity in ths
murder of Leon Renaker, today
depeatedly stated he knew moth
ing Of the murder. He is conf
ned in a luxurious cell on the
third floor of the jail.
/ Winchester, KY, Aug. II :
of Scobee Hardman,
charged with the murder CT Leon
Renaker, to the September grand
jury without bail, and the arrest
Of Rcece Fox, Hardman's COM
panion on the night Of the murder
were the outstanding develop
ments OF IIardman's examining
trial here Wednesday, Fox was
arrested "Wednesday afternoon on
warrant charging completely IN
the murder. sworn out by Walter
Renaker. brother of the Slam man
after Hardin Smith, a ferryman,
having crossed the river at
Boonesboro road, had identified
Hardman as one of the two men
who had crossed on the ferry the
night of the murder.
The defense offered no testi-
lnony at the hearing. After the
prosecution had closed the case
for the commonwealth, Judge J.
Smith Hays, attorney for the de-
Tense, spoke briefly, that most OF
the testimony offered was merely
"goss p" and no evidence produc-
ed that would incriminate the de-
fendant. Maury Kemper, OF Lex
ington, who is assisting County
Attorney II. H. Moore in the
prosecution declared that the evi-
dence was sufficient TO warrant
holding Hardlnan and urged that
no bond be allowed.
Fox is "a years old and is a sor
Of Mrs. Richard Oliver He lives
with his grandfather, John Reese,
on a farm three miles from here.
Fox was in the court room this
morning. He was found on the
street when the warrant was is
sued and was Immediately placed
in jail.
Fox owns a Dodge roadster in
which the two men are accused Of
having crossed the r.ver at
Boonesboro at 2 o'clock the morn
ing Renaker was killed.
Smith, the ferryman, said the
pair occupied a Dodge roadster
with half curtains. He testified
that they did not return the way
they came but that it would have
'been possible for them to have
made the return by way of Claws
Ferry bridge, II miles from
Boonesboro.
TIL testimony, the prosecution
asserted, is in line with that of
Mrs. II. X. Prather, who pre-
viously had said that she was
awakened on the night of the
Renaker murder by rays from the
headlight OF an automobile shin-I
ing through the window of her
home on a street paraheling thai
on which Renaker lived. She
test fed that the machine was a
roadster with half curtains. She
also previously had said that she
heard one of the occupants of the
car say, Il have finished him" or
it" she was uncertain which.
Examination of Mrs. Renaker,
put on the stand as a prosecution
witness, brought out these facts:
That on one occasion while in
Lexington with Hardman and
Mrs. Douglas they were seen by
Nathan Levi, Renaker's partner
in the commission business, and
she told Levi not to SAY any
thing about it"
Mrs. Renaker, Hardman and
Mrs. Douglas were together in,
Cincinnati at one time.
A number of times Hardman
was seen in Mrs. Renaker's ma
chine on the streets of Winches-
ter because she, as a matter of
courtesy" offered him a ride
downtown after visiting the Doug
las home.
During the hour Mrs. Renaker
was on the witness stand the
prosecution centered its energies
cil an effort to show that Hard
man sought to be in Mrs. Rena-
ker's company as much as possi-
bic, and to prove it was his de-
sire to have Renaker out of the
way.