Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-15

women customers when the shooting had
started; they had left the transaction hang
ing in mid air and had vacated the premises
through a rear door as the embattled Par
senses swarmed in through the 'front.'.
On the road outside, directly in front of the
store, were parked two cars the Parsonses'
and another, belonging to one of Mr.. Lusks
dispossessed customers. Gladys, with her
sawed-off shotgun still in hand, was crouched
behind one of these cars.
Spooks Redmond, carrying two hefty throw
ing stones, was creeping along the road, and
Carter was covering his advance with the
hog rifle.
None of the Whittlers was now in evidence,
but there were, or may have been (accounts
differ two somewhat enigmatic spectators
Spooks' younger brother Buck, sitting on a
rock a hundred yards away with a shotgun
across his knees, and a man named Walter
Richie, who will be heard of again in minute.
AS soon as Gladys became aware of Spooks'
stealthy approach, she shouted Don't come
any closer!"
Then she bolted into the store.
Redmond, possibly thinking that after ALL
he merely had to deal with a parcel of
women, did not heed her advice. He crept
up to the door of the store, showed it open
and disappeared inside.
Seconds passed Then there sounded a
loud explosion from within, followed by a brief
silence and another explosion.
Redmond toppled through the door. The
upper part of his head had been blown away
At this moment posse of Hamilton county
officers, frantcally summoned by one, of the
disappearing whittlers, came roaring down the
road in a squad car, just in time to avert
what, it is generally agreed would have been
a mass killing.
Nooky, Ellen and Gladys were Immediately
taken into custody. Walter and Ben were
rounded up few hours later and reunited
with their womenfolk in jail
When they were removed from there a
week later, Nooky-who had already told the
officers that she, not Gladys, had shot Red
mond because he had slapped her face-point-
ed proudly to some scrawled handwriting on
the ceiling of her cell.
"Nooky and Ellen Parsons in here for
shooting a dog" IL said
Wanting to hear little Nooky get the credit
for knocking off the family's rival in the
moonshine trade. folks came from miles
around to attend the trial.
But they were disappointed. The prosecu
ton produced a surprise witness in Walter
Richie, a war worker who claimed. over the
strenuous denials of the Parsonses, to have
been in the store when the shooting oc-
CURED. He said Gladys had fired the fatal
shot
However, his story convinced only nine OF
the twelve jurors. so the case was adjourned
until next February
we can't understand why a man who
claims to be\a Christian would say such n
thing" declared Nooky Indignantly.
She vehemently denied charges of the
State that she had agreed to accept the re-
sponsibility for the murder in order to clear
her sister-n-law and thereby remain in the
good graces of her husband. who Il was
charged had threatened he would not go on
living with her unless she saved Gladys from
the penitentiary.
Noolxy feels very badly over the prosecu-
tons refusal to impicate her even the tinieat
little bit.
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY z