The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-12-17

get the satisfaction at the Gore
Court that he desired, and go he
came to Logan and swore out a
warrant for Rev. Boyd, charging
him with rape with consent. In
the meantime, Mr.. Boyd had taken
three children and gone to Buch-
tel to visit his brother. The fol-
lowing week he returned and was
advised to leave the country; that
Melvin Summers was after HIN.
The preacher left Immediately and
walked to Haydenville and there
took the train and went to Can
ada and thence to Mexico, and
was gone for ynore than two
months, then returned and
submitted to arrest and gave bond,
and now the trial is on, and as we
go to press, the jury has returned
from viewing the premises, the ar
gument of Judge Wright for the
state has been heard, and the de-
fense Is now presenting their ar.
gument.
As has been stated there have
been about 100 witnesses testified
in the case, most of whom were
character witnesses. The prose-
cutting witness, Miss Pearl Sum-
mers, went upon the stand and
swore of the times and places of
the illicit relations she had with
the preacher, and stuck pretty
we'll to her story. She told of how
he had met her on the day in
question, when her father, on his
way to work, had met the preach
or. That they went to the woods
together and he wrapped her up
in the rain coat that he carried,
and she told some unprintable
things that he said to her.
Throughout the girls story she
was unshaken practically, and
told the horrible tale with child
ish simplicity, not shielding her
self in one instance. She told the
old, old story, that she had sub.
mitted to his will because she
had loved hlm too much, and that
she loves him yet with an nnyield.
ing affection, and that she would
not have testified against him had
she not been forced to do SO. Her
testimony was indeed sensational,
and were it true, which RENAME
for the jury to say, the Rev. Fran
els Boyd is fiend incarnate and
should 60 through life despised
by all humanity and should be in
carcerated, like an animal, away
from human eyes and human
thoughts.
The Rev. Francis Boyd went
upon the stand and untlinchingly
and straight-forwardly told the
story of his life and denied that
lie had ever mistreated the girl in
his life, that he never had any H.
licit relations with her, and that
he had always treated the girl as
a daughter, as she was the COM
panion of his eldest daughter and
q frequent visitor at his home and
q member of his congregation.
He told that on the day he had
met Mr.. Summers, and was said
by the girl to have gone to the
woods with her, that the story
was absolutely false. He admit
ted that he had seen the girl that
morning standing in the road be.
tween the cemetery and the woods
spoken of, but that he merely
spoke pleasantly to her and passed
along on his way. He said that
he had fled because he was afraid
of Melvin Summers, who, he had
been informed, had threatened his
life, and that his itinerancy was
not due to having any fear of the
law. He said that as soon a. he
was assured protection, he volun-
tarily returned and gave himself
up.
To break down the girls testi-
mony, many witnesses were intro
duced that swore they would not
believe the Summers girl under
oath, that her general reputation
for truthfulness was not good. and
on the side of the defense many
witnesses were heard that testified
to the good character of the de-
fendant.
| There was brought Into the
case some postal cards that the
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