The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-09-21
NOSE PELYNBR HAS
MADE NEW CHARGES
Claims Judge b. II. French liirdc
Men 10 Assassinate Him.
He Was to he Enticed Into Gard
Game and kiIIed--Iatcst SEN
sation In Hargis Affairs.
GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION

Winchester, Ky. Sept. 21.-Mose
Feltner, the nemesis of the Hargises
in the Breathitt county assassination
cases, went before the grand jury
and. corroborated by other witness
es, made the startling statement that
Judge b. f. French had hired men
to assassinate him Monday night.
Ruck Cottongane testified before the
grand jury that French had hired
him and Charles Daniels, of this city,
to engage Feltner in a game of cards
and assassinate him. Cottongane was
TO shoot him and Daniels was to
swear that the shooting was done in
ssalf-defense.
Feitner made another sensational
charge against French, in which he
said that he and Sheriff McChord led
the famous Perry county feudist into
trap, and that on September 4
French offered him $4,000 to leave
the state and never return. paying
him 5000 In money to prove his good
faith.
Sheriff McChord went before the
grand jury and corroborated Feltner
TO the extent of saying that Fetner
had told him of French's overtures
and upon his advice had accepted the
$500 and had turned ii over TO him.
Sheriff McChord laid the money be-
fore the grand jury as evidence.
French was tried on the charge OF
contempt of court in the Clark cir
cult court only recently. and was
finsd $4,000 for enticing witnesses
away from the $50, 900 damage suit
brought by Mrs. j. B. Marcum against
i the two Hargises, French and Sher-
! if Ed Callahan, of Breathitt county,
for the assassination of her husband
two years ago in the Jackson court
house.
4 Judgment for damages was re-
4 turned against Callahan and Judge
James Hargis, but not against French
nor Alex Hargis. Both sides appeal
ed the case. and the appeal is now
before the court of appeals.
Immediately after the trial the
! four defendants in the case were
charged with contempt of court by
inducing Feftner. Cottongane and
Sam Fields to leave the Jurisdiction
of the court by the payment of sewer
al hundred dollars and to stay in
Cincinnati until after the suit was
decided. They did go 10 Ohio. but
all of them returned and testified
that they had been bribed to leave
the court. the bribery being paid
through Fslix Feltner, who was also
punished for his part in the proceed
ings.
French has already been convicted
OF the contempt charge and fined IS. :
900. The other three defendants
are yet to be tried on the contempt
charge. and the prosecution is con-
fident that similar punishment will
be dealt out to the Hargises and Cal
/ lahan.
NOSE Feltner has been a conspicu-
Gus figure in the famous Breathitt
county assassination cases. He was
indicted in Breathitt county for muir
der and sentenced to the penitentiary
j. b. Marcum. without financial rec
ompense. felt sorry for him. and
stepped in in his behalf, took an ap-
psal and had the verdict OF guilty
reversed. Meanwhile the series OF
assassinations which have been laid
at the Hargises' door began to de.
velop.
Feltner has furnished damaging
evidense against the Hargis factions
in all the court proceedings and Is
considered the most dangerous man
the Hargises have to deal with
Neither by intimidation nor bribery
have they been able to swerve him
from the oath he took over Marcum's
grave, that "As long as live | will