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MOONSHINERS THREE PROHIBITIONAGENTS IN BATTLELOUISVILLE. Kfn Aug. 10—With all linei of communication Into the Cockriir* Fork section* of Lost CreekIn Bretthit county, reported moon-I saidr to havehad not been in communication with Agent Stewart since Thursday morn-ins.shiners' rendezvous andbeen the scene of a. fight in which three prohibition agents were killed and one wounded in a clash with illicit distillers, destroyed, effort* to clear up the details of the affair moved slowly tonight.Deputy Sheriff James Deaton of Perry county is cuoted as having said In a long distance conversation from Hazard, that he had returned to that place with seven prisoners, alleged moonshiners, after having led a posse to the section where the battle was reported to have been staged. He said he found no trace of H. L. Stewart, J. D. Carpenter and C. D, Morrison, companions of Prohibition Agent Alex Grayheart, whom the latter was reported to have said apparently had been killed, when he ar-; rived in Lennut severely wourtded early today.Moonshiners it* the reyion near Cockrill’e Fork are well organized and have oestroyed all telephone lines, so that communcation la possible only by courier and operating in an Isolated and practically Inaccessible region, are able by means of a corps of lookouts to learn quickly of the presence of raiding parties Deputy Deaton was quoted as having said.Reports from Lexington were that Sheriff J. L. Caudill of Breatthit county was reached by long distance telephone and said Agent Stewart had been leading a raiding party InBreatthiL county during the 'last week, having destroyed approximately 15 stills. He discredited reports o£ a fight at CockrilJ's Fork, but said heLENNUT. Ky„ Ang. 10.—Wounded in the shoulder And .left leg and crawling, and stumbling- along, AJlex Gayheart of Perry county, a prohibition * enforcement officer in 11. L. Stewart’s force, made his way into the railroad station' at Lennut at break of day this morning reporting he was the only man left of a party of four prohibition men beaded by Stewart who entered the mountains late Thuisday afternoon to'capture a band of moonshiners sakl to be near Cockeriirs fork on Lost creek.The other three men in the prohibition party were R. L. Stewart, J* A. Carpenter of Jackson, and Cl D-Morrison,Gayheart says the men were trapped in a small valley by the moonshiners and surrounded in this, the most remote and inaccessible section of the mountains of Breathitt county, and widely known as a haven of moonshiners and fugitives, .The prohibition band was practically at the mercy of the moonshiners, Gayheart said, who were in the rearatid on all sides of the mountains and tvho kept up a constant fire until early this morning.During the battle in which Gayheart lost track of the remaining: force with him and at which time,tbe moonshiners were attacked from the' rear by.a sheriff's posse, the wounded man took advantage of the opportunity to escape. He expressed little doubt that any of the prohibition officers were alive. Gayheart was taken to a hospital in Hazard*
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Phoenix Arizona Republican
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Sat, Aug 11, 1923
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