The log cabin Democrat., 1922-01-05
ALL SIX POSITIVE NO DETAIL UNTOLD THEIR STORIES FINISHED Alleged Backward Witnesses DiscIaim Evasion Before Jury-How It
 All Happened.


 giving and theft of whiskey. of intox. | icatlon of citizens who otherwise dc not become intimate with John Bar leycorn, of the giving of evidence and arraignment before justices of the peace and what is more import ant, It IS the recounting circumstan- : ces which placed six Faulkner men . in the county bastile, under instruc- tlons of Judge George w. Clark to \ remain there until their memories freshen and they are able to reveal to the grand jury complete informa- , ton as compared with what the probe body considers incomplete disclosures. , In the very beginning, these six men tell their stories with readiness , and what they say bears every evi- z dence of truth and without any indi- cation that one single detail has been withheld Individually, they claim all has been told the jury and since they can tell nothing else, it would be futile to send word to the grand jury they are ready to resume and complete their testimony. Hence the deadlock: these six men believing and declaring they have testified to the extent of their knowledge, and the court and jury believing some details-impor- tant details-have been withheld
 There is no sign this morning to either side intends to capitulate.
 But to the recounting of the cir cumstances.
 W. E. (Ei) Sans of Guy talked first. By the way, Sans has well established reputation and is account ed in his neighborhood and his friends 7 here as good citizen. The episode about which the grand jury question: , ed him occurred about four weeks 3 ago. Sans said he went out to look over some timber belonging to him. Ahead, he noticed a stranger, of whom he did not get good glimpse even, dodge coyertly and finally con ceal his fruit jar in the woods. Sans ,e took possession when he left and drank moderately of the whiskey- He did become intoxicated, more or less 9 He told all this to the jury and then 2 oct III NIit lueSllOIlS dDOul llle ONIet ? Sans saw the owner only at a dis tance and can not testify anything as
 to his appearance. He stoutly affirms '0 this. As explanatory, it should bt ,4 said that the grand jury as well as Q county and city officers are more thar ,6 anything else anxious to catch tht ,o vendors or makers of whiskey. = Holbert Presley and Roy Perkin. g of Guy reached the grand jury anC = county jail via the mouth of the same % fruit jar, but quatfed of it's content! '5 at different times. Along in April DO Presley from his stand at a spring
 near Guy saw one unknown to hin
 conceal his barleycorn and then de
 part. Perkins was near the spring
 also, as will be disclosed. Presle!
 forthwith invaded the premises, ac
 quired sole title to the fruit jar anC
 Init it up" for as much as he wanted 's Perkins watching noticed that Presley ,e left the jar on the ground, and ht
 then pulled" at it's contents, fas' l. dwindling by this time.
 10 To shorten the story both became f. intoxicated, some one filed complaint
 with Justice of the Peace C. H. Kes- singer and they were arraigned. Un-
 happily, their contact with courts die is not stop there for the incident was
 passed on to the grand jury.
 It was the first time was ever
 drunk" Presley said.
 Presley and Perkins are young mel \ and bear good regulations, it was N said. As to who owned the whiskey
 before it became theirs by right oI
 discovery, they claim all their infor SC mation has been given the grand
 jury and further Interrogation vii r not discover anything new because 50 their stock of evidence was exhaust ,,22 ed when first tapped.
 IS Mentioning discovery provides al
 appropriate manner of introducing g Christopher Columbus (Lum) Greer ,,99 of Benedict township, whose stor! 80 places him as the victim of some fel ,d lows from Oklahoma, who stopped il 94 Conway at Thornton's wagonyard an - later parked their car east of the olt
 fair grounds, where Greens train O no misfortune started.
 DO "I had gone over there to collec 70 that $2 from that negro" Greer
 readily recited, land these fellows
 who said they were from Oklahoma
 called me over to where they wer
 and asked me to have drink wtl
 them. l drunk some of their stuff an,
 believe, it knocked me-
 Asked where he was when this Ok
 lahoma fred eye" surrendered it ,s hold on him, Green said he was il % justice of the peace court, and searcl V of his clothes failed to upturn S8t 5 which he had when the powerful pc o tion was imbibed. He was fined Y MThat,s all thn truth hut tLA i1an.