By the Associated Press
Newport, Tenn., Jan. 5—Following the return here last night of Harry Smith, Noah Bishop, Bill McKinney and Hobart Taylor, arrested in Asheville, N.C., charged with the murder of Bascom Jones on the night of December 27, local officials said they had evidence sufficient to clear up the mystery. Hearing of the four young men has been set before a magistrate here for next Tuesday. The officials said today they had issued a subpoena for a group of local business men believed to be bootleggers who are alleged to have driven two cars from Newport to Bridgeport the night of the killing. One car contained a load of whiskey and the other bore the five young men, the officers said.
Officials here said the evidence they have gathered indicates that the five Asheville men came to Newport for liquor, obtained a large quantity and were driven to Bridgeport, where they loaded their whiskey on a Southern Railway freight train, when they started back to Asheville.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Jan. 5, 1924
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