The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-27
.HARGIS JURY
 IS DISMISSED Could Not Reach a Yer
 dict. NO FREEDOM FOR YOUNG MAN Slayer of His Father Goes Back to
 Iaa. Jurors stood Nine for Acqulssal and l
NO FREEDOM FOR YOUNG MAN
Jurors stood Nine for Aeaul.tal and Three for oos.ieeen--Mu.t Face Charge bs Murder
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irvine. kyp Dec. 26.--The jury iu the case of Beach Hargis. charged with the murder of his father, Judge James Hargts, this afternoon reported their inability 10 agree and were dis- charged
 The Jury stood nine for acqnittaI and three for conviction
 Beach Hargis had been on . debauch few days before the time of the murder of Judge fIargis and he had hnally been brought back to Jackson For some days the nelghbors declared that Judge Iiargis had been dragging the boy through the streets of the wild little mountain town.
 / As told In the trial. Beach entered his fathers store. and after a few words with tho Judge. aged In a grapple with him. They feil to the floor. Beach qn top aud with the Judges own pistol the boy fred ssv- erai shots Into the body of Ire pros- trate man.
 The State. represented by Common weaith's Attorneys Keely Rash and A. Floyd Byrd. contented itseIf with the facts of the case. ending it's testi- mony at the point when a witness tes- tified that Beach during the course of the day of the murder said
 I'm getting wild and I'll do soma- thing desperate by night "
 The defense. ono of the lawyers for whom was United States senator-eiert William c. Bradley former Governor of Kentucky, based its strength upon the testimony of the boy and that of lIs mother. the widow of Judge Eiar- gis. Mrs. fIarais testified that the Judge had early taught the boy bad habits and when Beach was child he'd given him whislgey and buekled q gun upon hls hip.
 Beach or Beauehamp. as iE his right ful name is 23 years old and has ai- ways been what in the Kentucky noun talns is Iermed "feverlsh.s He had given his parents much trouble
 The only other IEhrgis child is Mrs. Evelyn Hogs of Jackson. who married one of tho Interest of Judge Hargis political and famlly enemies
 Judge James Hargis was adnlitted- ly baron in Breathitt County. iR the Tenth Consfeasional District, as was ever any inediaeyaI lord. Ills minis ters occupied ali the county offices. he was himself Democratic state Commit teeman ana was the chairman of all the district conventions.
 Men rose up to question bis rule and to mako personal attacks upon him, and these men strangely and suddenly were done away with. The Marcums the head of which family walked the streets Of Jackson Tor months with a baby in his arms to avert his final assassination; the .Cockrells and otherR disputed the scep- Ire of the feudal klns and raid the penaIty with their lives,
 This summary and violent rule bred inc school of murderers and bad men who gave to their county the world known title of bloody Breathift one Of them. Curt Jett, called by his picturesdueiy speaking neighborss the 'swiId dog of Breathitt," Is serving . life sentence in the State penitentiary: some are deaa and others have He'd the state or are living quietly since the death of their chfeftain
 4arsis had vast mineral interests in the section in which he lived. though the ostensibie producer of his wealth was-a dry goods and general store at Jackson. in which tl1e killing occurred.
 one of the stranRest things about the death of the~ feud leader was his purchase of casket in Lo1hvii1e a week before his death. He saw sil- yer handled coffin valued at sl,l0a which took his eye and ordered H. sSysss to be sentaaon Mrs. bargis re- auest When Judge Iiargis met his death eight days. later Mrs: Hargis wired for tt. s