Jockey

Giving himself up at Louisville last week, where last May he had ridden Omaha to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Willie ("Smoky") Saunders was indicted by a grand jury for being accessory to murder. Chief witness for the

State was a Mrs. Agatha Mackison, who said that the previous Saturday night she, Saunders, an exercise boy named Schaeffer and one Evelyn Sliwinski, fun-loving, 24-year-old wife of a tailor, had made a round of roadhouses. Afterwards, according to Mrs. Mackison, Mrs. Sliwinski had been ordered out of Saunders' car, knocked down and deliberately run over twice.

"Smoky" Saunders' story was that Mrs. Sliwinski had consumed too many gin bucks, got sick, was let out of the car. After that, said the jockey, they might have run over her, but he did not know since Schaeffer was driving.

Schaeffer said that after the victim "left" the car he drove two miles up the road, returned, saw the body lying in the road, swerved, passed on.

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