Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1906-07-05
FORMER FUEDIST SAYS
n JUDGE PLANNED PLOT
TO Assassinate Men in Breathitt
Fued Troubles.
sAV HARols PLANNED KILLING

VoUUcosloN OF wen IN pTedVlW NouH'
v Jail Are Said to corroborate
The Statement Of curtiss Jett Made
Several Days Ago.
Lexington, Ny. July John Smith
and joan AOner, confined IN Breatait,|
couny jail al Jackson charged win
.assds siLAtins DR., b, u. Cox IL April!
aSO2, James COckrili ~ july, lsv-,
and James b. Marcum, IN May, 1870,
during the BreAthitt troubles, have
made complete confessions dc.ail!ns
their completely IN tac assassination u
The three men. The news was O,uugN
here lp captain G.. W Hear, de.
tectivc, from Dallas. who has been a..
sEA2cd To work VI fueI cases.
Sam Fields, of Hamilton, OHIO, for
mer fcudist, VINO was charged VITA MI.
: ing a man named Spicer. during fu,
troubles. told Henry of the cout",.
ion. stating tha' he had seen smith
anu Ahu, H. the JACKSON jail ami
thai they Dld told him that they had
contcssc,. aut that pruiIug develop
u'u'~ hat Woui cone up The con.
fos..ou We,.u not Ne made public IT.
flu Tor .wp .g tarcs weeks
Fr.h, stated that the cuId,,s.u
.corrUoorar,I tur'l,s Jett aud A-bury
spic.r 49, tLcit confessions IT 40.
wee asO .a...as Ca, Bg,d'ai.i
as-l, ,iuJ',oas and Their, We're most
sensational developments Ia the La
confession t"at neither Jet Spiccr or
MOsr Feliner. who made The hle'|
statement regarding Brcatlitt assaSsi
nation plots IN February, 1905, all no.
mention and that many new people
never before mentioned would be
ss,Might in Fields says that Smith
and Abncr ho'h appeared relieved
since cunfessinR
Fields sail 'ha' he was The first
man tha' Judge lanes Hargis had
ever employed 20 assassinate James
Cockril Fields said that he was
Standing IN the street IN Jackson oneI
day some time before Cockrill was
Killed when Judge Hargis approached
him aud tpl him that he would pay
him $1,000 II he would Kill Jim Cock
nil
fields says that ne was afraid 20 re-.
fuse the otrr and when he accepted.
IiarEis detailed the plot u him. Fields
was o. pag.sc toCkrill In card game
take uffrnse al some trivial thing and
then Kill Cockrill before the latter
had chance to shoot back. but toI
walt until he had drawn a pistol. ~ II
would CIV" Fields some semblance ~
selfdefense
Fields saif that he iid no, carry Qua
HarEis' orders aud that the plot was
afterward, detailed - Curtis Jet
John Smith and John Nbncr. hut VA.
never carried Dut l~'lis said fNa'
after he had failed 10 carry out H,r
gis' directions In killing Cpckrill bel
Vas always afraid while be VA IN
Jackson Whenever he vent 20 he
sour, house or whenever a croNf con
Erega'ed he Sss hrlys N the ua'oh
against assassinaNon. knowing 10
would be Killed II opportunity offered
Ne sali that before COckull vas
KILLED and areT he bad been onefes
$4,000. ~ Judge HarGis ~ murder
Cockril. he wrote letters 90 GosernSf
Beckham. detailing plots AEslns' Cock
nils life. bn, that ReckhAm IA no
reply When HArxis. Callahan Aad
eShsrs vsrs isdiefsd IN Tays'tr or
eul, hev~ for murder ~ cockrin vho
died In . ai.piisi here Fisld. sea 81
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