The trial of Carl Lippard, son of Bud Lippard, and Baxter Britton, who were arrested in Charlotte on a charge of receiving and keeping liquor, has been set for Wednesday, August 23, before Recorder Jones in Charlotte. Baxter Britton’s bond was reduced to $1,000 but Lippard’s remains at $2,000.
Carl Lippard and Baxter Britton, young men of Catawba County, were captured by local detectives Thursday afternoon about 12:30 o’clock, following an exciting chase through Seversville, in which the rear of the pursued car was riddled with bullets. The pair was locked up on a charge of transporting liquor, bond fixed at $2,000 each.
Five gallons of whiskey was taken from the bushes in the creek bottom beyond the Seaboard tracks. Britton leading the officers to the spot after Lippard had let him and the liquor out of the car and sped away with the officers in pursuit. Officers say Britton claimed that the whiskey belonged to Lippard but the new Essex touring car was his own.
Detectives Alex West, L.E Moser and J.T. Maines got a tip that a liquor car was approaching town and started out on Trade street to apprehend the outfit. When near the creek they saw a car and two men come down the road and draw up before the West End garage. The pair evidently saw the approaching officers, the auto was quickly backed and started over Johnston street that runs beside the garage.
The officers gave chase in their Ford pumping lead into the fleeing car as they went. Six shots were found to have punctured the rear of the Essex after it was taken between the pump station and the abattoir. The bullets perforated the rear seat while three were fund to have reached the back of the front seat. The lower wind shield was shattered with two bullets in the right hand side. The spare tire on the rear showed a clean cut from a bullet and another ripped the top as if a sharp blade had been drawn over it for several inches.
When the pursued car reached Eleventh street on Johnston, Britton was let out of the car with the whiskey can. Lippard again began his flight over the rough road, which ended in his capture about a mile further on. While two of the officers brought Lippard and the automobile back to town, the third went back and took Britton, who was trying to crawl away through the bushes. However he readily showed the officer where he had put the can and told him it belonged to Lippard, the detective said.
The case will probably be heard in recorder’s court this morning
The Lippards, Carl and “Bud,” his father, are notorious in Mecklenburg and nearby counties for the whiskey scrapes that they have gotten into. At the last term of superior court, about three weeks ago, they were arraigned on a charge of transporting and having liquor for sale.
Evidence was presented in an attempt to show that the pair were directing two men to whiskey hidden beside the road in Camp Greene several months ago when officers accosted them and took as prisoners J.A. Queen and A.K. Harwell, the two men on the ground in front of the automobile in which the Lippards were accused of riding. The men in the car sped away when they saw the officers, Deputy Sheriff Vic Fesperman and Detective L.E. Moser who presented the most damaging evidence, saying on the stand that he was positive the men in the auto were the Lippards and that he turned a flashlight full into their faces. With five lawyers appearing for the defendants, witnesses went upon the stand and swore that the defendants were attending a birthday part of “Bud” Lippard’s mother in Catawba county when the liquor transportation was alleged to have occurred.
Carl Lippard now has a trial pending on a charge of stealing an automobile. When the case reached the supreme court, that body ordered a new trial, which will be held soon.
The shooting of the young man in the back about three months ago on the Beatty’s Ford Road created considerable excitement around here for several weeks. “Bud” Lippard made the statement that he could tell who the men were who did the shooting, but it is not know if he appeared before the grand jury and divulged the information as he said he would do.
Carl Lippard spent several weeks in a hospital here with a 45-caliber pistol ball wound in his shoulder, believed to have been inflicted by parties interested in the enforcement of the prohibition laws. Lippard and another young man passed a car stopped in the road early one morning and a fusillade of shots after they had passed resulted in the wound being inflicted upon the former.
The reputation of Baxter Britton is not known in police circles here. It was rumored Thursday after the capture that he is a so of a deputy sheriff in Catawba county, but this could not be verified.
--Charlotte Observer
From the Charlotte Observer, as reprinted on the front page of The Hickory Daily Record, Saturday evening, Aug. 12, 1922
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