Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-11-17
HOST OF PRISONERS
ARE SENTENCED
Jail damned With Violators cf
Liquor Laws-Judge Passes
Out Penalties.

which was set for hearing aeX
tuesday, Judge a. NJ. J. Cochran
concluded the criminal docket 0
!. S. Court here Friday morning
and adjourned court over to Mon
day. The trial set for Tuesday i:
that Of Jailer VIM. Reynolds O
Lctcher county. He is accused il
a tour-count indictment brouht il
by the grand jury at this term O
court of permitting prisoners tc
escape and run at large. Tho
four prisoners named are Crit c
Morgan, James Clair, Keenon AJ-
ANS and !. b. Christy. District
Attorney Sawyer A. Smith told
the court that his information wa,
thar the offense was. so flagrant
that he wanted a trial immediate
ly if possible.
With but one exception, every
Criminal trial at the present term
OF federal court here has been for
violating of the national prohibi-
ten law. It used to be in the old
days that the docket of federal
court here was negligible as far
IS the criminal branch was con
cerned, but the local Jail now viii
hardly hold the vast number Of
prisoners who are often confined
awaiting trial or sentence. The
Cnc exception so far was the
tr,al OF a negro boy named White,
fpr opening a letter belonging to
another.
Just prior to adjournment q
court at noon Judge Cochran
passed sentence on the large num-
Der who had not had their punish
ment fixed during the term. Ii
required several deputy marshals
r1.der Marshal Roy Williams and
Deputy Jailer George Rogers t.
escort the long line from the jail
20 the court room. \ total OF $
were sentenced Friday morning
the heaviest penalty being award
Ell to c. B. Garriott, Of Trimbl'
county who was convicted Of
shooting Prohibition Agent Sol
nor Israel, when officers sought
to apprehend him some month
ago. Garriott was sentenced to
Serve five wears in the federal
pcnitentiary at Atlanta. The list
OF fines and imprisonments a.
f:Xed by the Judges were as fol-
lows:
For manufacturing or possess
irg apparatus to manufacture al
coholic drinks-six months in iail
each for June Powell, Green Po:
el; of Jackson county; Bob Ar
Vine, OF Estill; Charley Collin,
worth, Stanley Richardson ar.
RUford Richardson, of Jackson
county; Ellis Yocum, of Line
county; Elijah Stewart, OF Jack
SOP county; Fred Goetz. Of Lin
ccln county; Fleming Kirby, OF
Jackson; Ed Heron, of Paris.
Ede Powell, John Powell and
Will Turner. Sixty days. each
for Bant Collins, Wilson Settle OF
Madison county; Anton Noes. OF
L;rcoln county; Burton Rogers.
OF Madison county; August Bren-
der. of Lincoln; J. ]. Falconber-
ry Of Lincoln and w. II. Harrison
0; Jackson county.
Rollie Settle, of Madison, wa,
s:fen five days because OF his
youth.
On conviction Of possessing
property with which to make
liquor and upon their declaration
that they had made none Arthur
Webb and Ed Lakes. of Madi-
son, were let off with S50 fines.
Also Abner was given 90 days on
the mconshiiling charge as was
Harvey Landy, Willie Reece and
Ed Brandenburg, while Willie
Wingatc, Of Boyle county, was
let off with 80 days in view OF
the long time lie has spent i'll
county jail Judge Cochran said
the penalties many of the pris-
oners have served in the state
courts influenced him in mitigat-
ing the sentences of some of
the convicted men.
On conviction or confession of
possessing property with which
to make liquor, r. L. Thacker,
a. H. Feldman and Joe Kelly
were given fines of $50 each. On.
possession of liquor charges
fines OF $50 each were imposed
on Geo. Roach, G.. Peyton, D.
Hisle and Homer Wallace. The
last named said he had three
ears yet 10 serve III county jail
on conviction in the state courts.
In this connection Judge Coch-
ran pointed out that the state
prohibition law is much more
effective than the national law.
lie said that with the two work