The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-16
KENTUCKIANS ARE ON
THE ANXIOUS
SEAT
Two Prosecutions Going on at
jackson simultaneously, One
for Murder and the Other for
Arson Trouble VIII Follow
Either Conviction or Aequit-
tai.

JACKSON KY, June 15.-The sec
ond week of court in Breathitt county
opened with a reign of terror. One
term of court was overlapping another.
While the petit jury continued to hear
testimony in the murder case of Cur
tbs Jett and Thomas White, the grand
jury was hearing evidence in the
cases of Joseph Crawford and Ed
ward Tharp, teamsters for the Hargis
brothers, who are held without bond
on the charge of arson, for burning the
Even hotel. The arson cases, as. well
as the murder cases, are the latest in
a long series of similar crimes in
connection with the feud that has been
raging here for almost three years.
In these conflicts one faction has
been almost exterminated by assassi
nation and by flight, and the present
prosecution is against representatives
Of the dominant faction, which includes
local officers. 1t was due to this con-
dition that the state troops were need
ed for the purpose of serving sum-
monses on witnesses, making arrests
and protecting life and property. The
small force of troops was overwOrked
again today in serving 7summonses on
witnesses for the grand jury, as well
as on witnesses for the trial. They
worked yesterday as fremen and are
engaged night and day for police duty.
Judge Redwine today divided his
time between the murder and the arson
cases. Before court convened he
heard the habeas corpus cases of
Crawford and Tharp. and afterward,
at different times. excused the trial
jury while he gave instructions to the
grand jury.
Jett and White as Witnesses.
The defense opened with a state
fhot If would on al nd
introduced both Curtis Jett and Thorn
as White on the witness stand in their
own behalf to testify that they did not
enter the court house until after J. B.
Marcum, attorney for the contestants
for county offices, had been shot down.
Jet was especially cool and confident.
The mothers of both defendants heard
their testimony, and Miss Sarah Har-
gis, daughter of the county judge and
the leader of the dominant faction. was
as usual an interested listener.
Although the people of Jackson are
anxious in the arson cases, the leaders
of the dominant feud faction are not
SO much interested in the grand jury
as in the trial of Jet and White The
penalty in Kentucky for arson is from
one to twenty years Imprisonment,
and in case of conviction the general
belief is that the sentence would come
nearer the minimum than the maxi
mum. But in the murder cases there
is no compromise in the sentence if the
verdict Of guilty should be rendered.
In the doubtflA event of conviction,
there is general belief that confess
sions might precede execution, and
there is no limit to the comment as
to who would be involved if either of
the defendants should tell an he
knows. While one class is apprehen-
sive Of the results of conviction, others
are apprehensfve of what would follow
acQuittal, so that there is none in
Breathitt county without anxiety. A
verdict may come tomorrow or the
next day. s'-- : [--'