The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-06-21
JAMES yINSON
Makes Further Statement as 10
the Parole Matter.

! hear that NJ NJ Redwine and his
henchmen are trying TO exonerate him
from blame in the parole of the mur-
derer OF my father and from the
charge ] have made of trying to de-
eeive US about it.
lhey are showing a letter THAI
was procured from Eli Brown by his
good friend Redwine to make il ap,-
pear that his letters did not amount
to much.
he following letter was written
to the Prison Board in 1906. after
Ell Brown became a member of that
/ body:
y prosecuted Charlie Martin there
I is considerable doubt as to the guilt
OF Martin and Justice. Martha Gouse
the star witness swore she knew no.
thing of the case, Yours,
NJ NJ Redwine.'' =
I Any reasonable pc. son can see
tie effect Of this kind of a state
ment, coming from the official who
prosecuted the case. He argued to
the jury that there was not even
a REASONABLE DOUBT of the
guilt OF the men The jury believeG
from the evidence that there was not
/ a reasonable doubt and gave the
men life sentences. "COnslde anle
doubt means more than reason
able doubt. No honest. uprlgnL
Prosecuting Attorney will do all in
his power to send men to the GAL
lows or TO the penitentiary when
there is considerable doubt about
their guilt He certainly knew n
fte time of their trial just as well
or better than he knows now whether
the evidence Indicated that these
men were probably innocent. / did
. frut want to send innocent men to
death or to prison. If Redwine had
told me at any time that there was
, considerable doubt as to their
guilt would have dropped the
? prosecution. Why did Mr.. Redwine
|, wait nine years before his conscience
4 - moved him to write the Prison
| Boayd. 1t was not his conscience
/ that prompted him to write these Pe-
: ters; IL was the request Of relatives
: of the men, some OF whom are in
: fluential in politics, that made him
! take action and conclude that there
! was considerable doubt about their
2 guilt. Such just and upright man
4 as Mr.. Redwine pretends to be would
. not be able to sleep over sending in
nocent men to prison and keeping
"a them there nine years when his re-
{ quest would have turned them out
= All the sleep he is losing about II
I is whether his action is going to
. hurt him in this campaign.
= Redwine says in this 1906 letter
that Martha Cause, the star witness,
n swore she knew nothing about the
y case" | will make oath that Martha
y Cause was on the witness stand more
\ than a day in the trial OF Martin and
IN Justice and that she swore 20 all
\ the details Of the murder /. The jury
and every member of the Court. as
well as every spectator, will bear me
Gut in this statement Even Red
wine himself will not dare TO deny IL
When he wuOte that letter De did
4 not expect it TO be made public and
v did not think he would get eaGgbL
Another fact that | did not expos
in my first article is that Mr.. Red
wine wrote to the Prison Board il
= January 1907, asking them to return
to him all the letters he had writteE
~ in these cases. This was after hf
= had learned how the relatives o.
Lace Vinson felt about his action
- He also requested a letter from Mr.
Brown exonerating him from respon
sibility in the parole. Having beer
: voted for in the last Legislature By
DIR Redwine. Mr.. Brown no doubt did
the best he could for him. / wai
x told at Frankfort by Clerk of the
prison Board that the Board nevel
! wrote or asked Redwine to make )
: statement In these cases
:. Mr.. Redwine can not deny that ht
. :, attempted TO cover UP his work anc
= The affidavit that / referred TO IN
= my other article is so worded that il
is calculated TO deceive. Such efforts
at deception are too low for a Cir-
: cult Judge TO stoop to- Why did he
: not come out IKE true man and ae-
: knowledge what he had done without
waiting TO have the truth brought
= out in other WAYS.
= want 70 say positively that this
: thing did not start in this campaign
= II started when Charlie Martin va.
!, paroled. Mr. Redwine convinced rs
y that he had nothing 10 do, with d
and We laid the blame on Gov. Beck
j, ham, Later through our relatives
! at Catlettsburg and Ashland We
learned that we had been deceived
!, and | went TO Frankfort 10 find
: ont OF mysef.i hen took the
! matter into the campaign lecause I
believe every honest voter in TINS
district should have n chance tn kuovv
what kind OF man is asking foE
votes for the high office OF Circuit
Juoge. Then II they vote wrong they
do 50 with their eyes open.
James Vinson.