The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-02
Deny Liquor Purchased
From Woman as War
rant Charges.
F-DEFENSE ALlBl
Deputy Wounded by Boy
Says He Thought Victim
Would Shoot.
By W. r. SULLIVAN
.-nitnd Pro- stam CnrresnnndenI


GENEVA, ILL.,, April q
Before a large and partisan
crowd which expressed its
sentiments with hand-clap-
ping, booing and laughter.
witnesses at the inquest into
dry raid killings of Mrs.
Lillian De King of Aurora to-
day gave conflicting versions
of the evidence behind the
warrant on which the De
King home was searched.
Eugene Boyd Fairchild, who was
employed as q prohibition investi-
gator for States Attorney George
D. Carabary's Office, admitted that
he had not bought any liquor from
Mrs. De King, but said he had sent
a friend into the house and that
the friend had come back with
pint of moonShine. He sWore out
the warrant against Mrs. De King.
II was riding around with Phillip
cTooley) johnson and he suggested
we buy drink, I stopped in front
of the filling station which stands
between the roadway and the De
King house, and 'Tooley' vent in
side. I gave him $5 to make the
buy.
Denies Buying From Woman
Pretty soon he came out and
handed me back SO, saying the pint
OF moonshine had cost MIN 81. We
drove down the road a few rods and
tasted the stuff, but l didn't like II.
The moonshine was a poor grade.
Fairchild said that the buy was
made on Saturday and that on Mon
day he went before Police MAgis-
trate John A. Weber, where the
warrant had been prepared and that
he signed it.
johnson was called next, and he
denied tha the had bought the IL
ouor from Mrs. De King.
II didn't even enter the house"
Johnson said. "I met three men
in the driveway and got the liquor
from them"
The crowd laughed when Coroner
Herman j. Vierke brought out from
Ole Nelson, one Of the dry agents
who entered the De King home.
that he had drunk wine with Joseph
De King before Deputy Sheriff Roy
Smith entered.
When Smith came in, according
to his own testimony, taken in
deposition today at a hospital In
Elgin, he Dashed De King over the
head with the stock of his shotgun
and then shot and killed Mrs. DE
King because he believed she was
going to shoot him.
Deputy in Deposition
johnson, FairchiId's conpaniors
did not remember whether he had
bought the liquor from Joseph Ds
King or from George Stafford, tbs
operator of a filling station nearby.
but was certain he had not entered
the house and had not seen Mrs. De
King.
Nelson testified that he was site
ing at the kitchen table with Deps
uties Treadway and Anderson and
Joseph De King drinking De Kings
wine when Deputy Smith came in
through 3 side door.
Nelson said he saw Smith club
De King to the floor but that he
CNelson) went out on the porch then
and did not see the shooting.
A deposition made at his bedside
by Deputy Smith in which the
deputy said that Mrs. De King had
a revolver in her hand when he
killed her, was introduced at the
inquest.
Smith also deposed that Mrs. De
King S husband, Joseph, had threat
ened to kill any one who comes
through that door" and that he
(Smith) had reason to believe that
his life was in danger. Z
Thought Life in Danger
Il thought that De King and L
we're alone in the house when I
entered, and 1 thought best to
strike him down. the deputy's depo-
sition said.
Il turned the gun around and
hit him with the stock. AS he fell
I heard a woman scream. did
not know up to that time that a
woman was in the house.
Il looked up in time TO see her
reach for one Of her husbands
guns. When 1 saw she had it in
her hand I fired, but I aimed at
her hip, not at her shoulders.
"At the same time my gun went
of 7 fell backward with a pain in
my leg. I thought the woman had
shot me, but then I saw the boy
(Cerald De King, l2-year-old son
Of the slain woman) come out from
behind his mother and say:
"1 got him, mama; I got him."
Smiths deposition was taken in
E1gin, where he is under treatment
in st. Joseph's hospital, and brought
here by Coroner Vierke.