Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-04-27
FRIDAY
ELDERS
ORCHESTRA
ELAINE
HAMMERSTEIN
"THE WAY of a MAID"

| Iarrodsburg, but it turned and
followed them into Lawrence
burg.
Harry D. Gaines who said he
( owned a distillery near Lawrence
burg, said that he heard there
was going to be raid and he
went out in a car to see if he
could protect his property. He
told of seeing the mysterious
touring car, taking the number
of the license, and watching its
! course, as told by Waterfll. Ev-
cry defense lawyer jumped and
objected when he started to tell
where he got his information
! about the trial and the objection
was sustained. He said he
couldn't see who was in the mys-
FERROUS car as all the curtains
| were on it.
Z. G. Floyd, prohibition agent,
told of being called by Sam Col
Inns and told to watch for a GER
tain car; how he had gone to the
county clerks office in Louisville
looked up the number and then
gone to certain garage to see if
it was there. 1t wasn't and as he
turned away, just at that moment
he noticed a car driving up with
the very number he was investi-
/ eating, 1916. He said that the
occupants Of the car saw him not
/ ing the number, and turned quick
~ and stepped on it." He hailed
4 taxi and with County PATROL
man Lou Gilbert gave chase.
Floyd told how they ran the tour
/. ing car down in an alley just as
1t was being backed into a gar
age. Two men in it gave the
names of Richard Helm Brashear
and Joe Rrashear. He said in the
car was crow, bar eight or ten
blue bandana handkerchiefs, a
couple tied with knots in the ends
a pair OF overalls, cap and boz
OF cartridges, and bucket and a
sponge. The car had recently
Eeen washed off, he said. This
was about 3 o'clock in the after
moon on March II, the day after
The distilIery robbery. Flovd
aald he looked up the license but
was not allowed to tell to what
car the license had been original
" granted. He did get out the
word Ford, before he was stop,
ped by the court. He said the
touring cars numbers were all
mutllated. County Patrolman
Louis X. Gilbert, of Jefferson,
corroborated Mr.. Floyd's story
practically in every instance. He
aid that he thought it was al
Ford taxi in which he and Floyd
gave chase to the fugitive car.
lloyd said he thought it was a
Dodge car.
Prohibition Agents Lucien Bur
| lam, J. M. Wakefield and Fred
! <innaird told Of following
ruck in an automobile to the
.ome of the grandmother OF
! John w. Boggess. Kinnaird
| ,ound two pint bottles; one had
! strip stamp on it showing it
vas the D. L. Moore brand. Boge
CESS first denied everything, the
| officers testified, but when his
| grandmother advised him to tell
he truth, he said he wanted to.
! She told him, they said, that he
lad always been a good boy and
oughn't to be made to suffer fer
or what others had got him into.
The officers said. that he then
| ook them to where the II bar
els were hidden in a barn. He
| old them, they said, that he got
| hem at the d. L. Moore distil-
| cry the night before. He told
| hem he owned the truck in part
lership with Ed Austin; they
| we're to receive 500 for their
lights work. He claimed he
iidn't know who from; that Aus
in had made the arrangements.
Hum Collins's name was men
toned for the first time by wit
less when Ralph Mills, who said
lie is a road contractor of Frank
,ort, was put on the stand. Hell
said he knows Hum Collins, and
that two of the trucks used in the
robbery belonged to him mills |
He said he had them stored onI
he Nicke1s farm out of Frank
tort. Collins had been UP to see
lin about them. He wanted t
)uy FIVE, and Mills said that he
priced them at $1,000 each.
old him l had five ready and he
'ould get them any day" They
we're heavy army trucks. Collins
ooked at them, the witness said,
md said they we're all right; they
were the kind he wanted; the