European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Magazine the still life of big six Henderson sex Revenboer Henderson with collection of what else liquor bottles stories by Jules Loh associated in Kentucky Moonshine one name Stilt strikes Awe big six big six Henderson busted up More stills in his time than anybody in if that is not at least it is the when Moonshiner talk about big six the line Between truth and legend i dont know what the record big six Henderson thinking Back on his Days of prowling around in alien As it 1 know i raided More than stills and sent More than Moonshiner to you could figure it Ive kept a copy of my daily reports for every Day i was a Revenue that was for a 28 years until he retired a few Yean and it figures up to roughly a still every other the Saga of big six is hardly told in dry the Moon ten big six Henderson tracked Down imparted heroic dimensions to him and respected him As much Ai they feared big one woman said when he came to haul her husband off to jail for a third were proud to have folks know we know More than a few Moon shiners named their children for big six big six on it and talked to it Good Bix he said to the barrel one Why dont we just run ourselves off a Little you and what do you say to big six that big six Henderson stepping out of the at big six Henderson is still impressive to he is a great Bear of a with a thick Bush of White hair and eyes the color of wet his Mother named him William big six was the name he picked up when he was going to Taw school and throwing a baseball after the fashion of Christy big six Mathew his career As a lawyer was As rapid As his my first and Only Case was defending a Guy who broke into he was guilty As Bat i got him i decided it i had to make living that Way i might As Well be a Holdup Man and at least be honest about there is nothing complicated about big six Hender sons sense of so be became a Federal Treasury a Revenboer As they Are known in the and went about it with a single mindedness that became the stuff of big six Henderson can smell a still from 10 Miles actually about two Miles if the wind is big six Henderson big six Henderson can shoot a pistol out of your hand at a Hundred the Way that got started was by i was aiming at the mans Belt it was no that he could creep through the Woods As quiet As smoke in his Green raiding suit and could run like a Deer for usually he didst have to run after his halt he shouted at one fleeing the Man froze in his in big in out at Coe on the Tennessee whiskey the agents called at Golden Pond in West pm a boo town during children did not play cops and robbers or cowboys and you be Uncle Zeke and Ril be big six Hender an agent overheard la a he was a legend in his All and not just be cause of his uncanny skill and his he also had a reputation for fair play and decent treatment of the Moonshiner he i never regarded them As doing something just big six Henderson and i never abused the big Man thumbed through a sheaf of his faded daily looking wistfully at the killed a but never abused the stud life of if what Treyve been saying about his children annoys he certainly Doest show what Treyve been these As anyone who reads the papers is that one of the kids was too another too ones Back want just another had ugly things like and that Many of them a Little it Doest faze the big horse prances around his private paddock in head ears Muscles rippling under his Rich red he nips mischievously at his plucks his Halter off the Hook next to his stall and plays tug of trots up to be petted on his Majestic head by All who come to dont know whether All that talk about his foals gets to but it gets to Lawrence Robinson its too soon to say How Good a sire Hes going to but dont he had a stakes Winner in his first which have just begun to and a number of other Good horses i have a feeling Hes going to be just youre just Arent red Robinson rubbing the horses fore Lawrence Robinson has seen a Good Many great sires in his so his feelings do not Stem Only from affection for for the past 31 has been in charge of the stallion barn at Claibore where secretariat and two dozen others of Only somewhat less renown live the pampered lives of princes to populate the sport of Robinson has a staff of six grooms and out he takes care of secretariat he int treated any different from any other horse on the Robinson they All get the same the same the same but not the same Atten at least not from at Claibore f the handsome and haughty triple february Crown Winner is exhibit secretariats is the first stall on the nearest the big sliding Bam it is the same stall his daddy of Happy memory bold and is directly across from the stall of round who has the first stall on the in this is Akin to having the office with the even though All the stall Are the about As commodious As a modest living secretariat and round table surely deserve the after round who is won million in his racing More than any other horse of his and has among his 362 72 stakes Only 10 fewer than bold May he rest in who was the greatest of them All As for what other horse has had his picture on the covers of Newsweek and sports illustrated in the same the triple Crown of celebrity should a lady Bone wish to become secretariats she must have a dowry of just for the privilege and come up with another when the baby stands up and so in mares have been so honoured and Secre a Mere lad of has Only been in the fathering business three right Lawrence Robinson and his Crew Are ready for the next Breeding which s in i halters of the horses Robinson has tended hang As mementos around the stallion each identified by a brass giving the barn the Aura of a Hall of Fame of Fox sir Galla had the father of whirl away the father of bold ruler son of Gallant Fox Nashua princ Equelo and standing in their stalls today Riva hoist the in honest for that fast dont worry about old Robinson Hes going to do All the stars and stripes Page 13
