Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-05-03

Oliver Van SAINT had not come tc
town that day to get him out o.
jail where he was confined, anc
that he was going out to Leonard
Sparks that night to make a rur
of moonshine. To this question
the court sustained objection
Asked if he had not been sentenc-
ed at this term of federal court to
a term in the penitentiary, he
answered, mo"
The next witness for the com
monWealth was Capt. V. @. Null
likan, of Lexington, the owner of
blood hounds, who testified that
his business was raising and de-
/ veloping blood hounds. He said
he was called to the scene of the
shooting from Lexington at night
and waited IN a store at Kingston
until daylight before taking the
dogs to the spot of the killing. He
drew a rough diagram of the
surrounding country, pixies, etc,
on the floor and demonstrated
very intelligently the different
directions of the tracks, etc. He
stated he noticed along by the
bushes some wads that had come
from the shot of a gun and that
the Wads were also scattered:
some across>the fence and in the
pike at places. He said the print
Of the butt of gun was plainly
visible in the soft mud at one spot,
being made by the rubber on the
end of the gun. Mullikin said
in one place in the pike it showed
tracks where some one had step
ped on the edge. He said the
tracks showed the print OF tacks
in a shoe and about a sixteenth
of an inch in the mud that there
were five and then a skip and
then four and that at one point
he could count the exact number
OF tracks. He said he had found
where some one had gotten over
the wire fence. the mud being
left Oh the fence.
Mullikin said he then went
down the branch to little house
and knocked on the door and a
woman came and he asked wha
lived there, and who had come
there last night and she SAID no
one. He asked her, he said, what
men folks lived there and she said
her husband and son and she said
they were not away last night |
and that he then asked her to let
him come in the house. He began
to her son and asked him
if he had a shot gun, and he said |
he did not but had a pistol. Wit |
ness then saw another young boy
in there, who gave his name as
Oscar Rucker. He said he came |
there the night before. That |
thereupon witness said he said tol
the woman: 81 thought you told
me there was nobody here bit
your husband and son, and here is
this boy" Well" she said, 81
don't consider him anybody; hcI
is just home folks" ,
Capt. Mullikin said he asked
Rucker to walk up the tracks
with him, and in going along ask
ed Rucker how long it had been
since he had been up there. Hell
said Rucker said he had not been
lip that way for two or three
weeks, and that he then told
there were sometracks
up there at the ravine and he
wanted him to go up there to see
if his shoe would fit the tracks,
NIullikin then said: When we
got there | told him to put his
foot there and he stood for a lit
tie bit and looked at this track
and he made dash with his foot
and started to put it down, and l
grabbed him, but he caught the
heel down and tried to twist it
down in the place. | grabbed
him and perked him back"
Mullikin said he had Rucker sit
down and take his shoe off and
that when he put it down in the
print it was exactly the same and
there was space around the toe
that was five tacks and then a
skip of about the distance of
where one of those tacks would
have been broken out, and then
four more and after measurement
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