The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-25
JUDGE EXPLAINS
ABOUT TROUBLES
IN GALLOWAY CO.
Complete REPUTATION of In
nuendO in Murray Ledger
Made by Wells.
More Soldiers Arrive at Muir.
ray This Morning
MAY HOLD WEST SIDE CASES

Murray, Ky, April %. Especial. >
That o. }. Jennings, editor of the
Murray Ledger, Is Sin sympathy with
the night riders and that that organ
izaton is proud of him and his paper
Is the bold declaration of County
Judge A. ]. G. Wells in lengthy
+ statement, published in circular form
and distributed among the big crowd
, in town today.
The statement was brought forth
| by editorials in the Ledger this week
in addition to an attack in a previous
Issue upon Judge Wells for bringing
! troops into the county.
Some of the most salient extrafts
from the statement of Judge Wells are
as follows:
"When You were asked by the
county judge to tell the name of the
bad man" and refused that you were
at that time under a solemn oath as
deputy sheriff to do all you could to
lapprehend all parties guilty of violat-
ing the law. Still in the face of all
this record you insist that | should
have depended on you and other night
rider sympathizers to have stopped q
thing which every copy of your paper
to one who is able to read-shows
that you are in deepest sympathy and
whose acts you are all the time ready
to condone rather than stop. Your
proposition to speak Is but another
example Of your duplicity in this mat
ter. Who hindered you from speak
ing? Why have you not been speak
ing all the time through your paper
against night riding. The files of
your paper will show that only a few
weeks back you asked the question,
"Who is a Night RIDER" and then
proceed 10 answer: "A Night Rider is
la Good Citizen"
Il would dislike to depend on a
deputy sheriff. who thought so, to
bring such midnight marauders to
justice Mr.. Jennings your course has
been such in this whole matter that
there is not single man in this coun-
ty who has been visited or whipped
or who thinks himself in danger from
night riders that would trust you to
guard his home. If the
soldiers are here you have done more
than any one man in the county to
make their presence here necessary
This is the honest earnest belief OF
the writer and nine-tenths of the good
citizens who have day after day
watched the columns of your paper
and the frequent yistations to your
Office of such men as Joe Bell and
other captains of the night rider gang.
"All this nonsense about the county
paying 40 soldiers $3.50 per day,
board 75c per day, 81 horses at $3.50
per day. officers salaries from s1.75
to 81 per day is all rot of the plainest
sort intended to inflame the public
mind for the meeting Monday and to
have its effect in clearing guilty men
who have been dragging men out of
bed at midnight and whipping them.
This Is the whole truth and no such
Nalsehcod shall be circulated without
answer. The county in all probability
'fill have to pay for the rent of the
y NO houses where the soldiers are
lartered, bedding and horse feed"
SOLDIERS AT Murray.
NCapt. Chapman, commissary officer.
the Third regiment national guards
company c, of greensboro, ar
rid here this morning from Padu-
% "A There are 90 men in the detach-
my, equipped with, blanket rolls,
Ikt jorgenson rifles and the sword
Is batet. General Williams is still
: hen There will be a big meeting in
Muty Monday and circuit court day
Tuety with those night rider cases
on docket will bring big crowds
fromRl sections 1t is believed the
eXtrahlitary strength is designed to
i, prevelany demonstration that might
~ intmNe the populace, Eight
II mounN men went across the river,
- itartintrom here at o'clock this
morninl II is probable that this is
:" the beSing of the exodus of the
nouhlatoldlers ana next week, II
8 belid the Middlesboro and
Whitesvil boys here will be trans
lforred, lting the greensboro boys
here to Ard Galloway, their firG
tour of dt
OF Sld Jury ReDor.
st The gra, jury will make its final
C. report toda aud the feature Is ex-
pected to " recommendation that
the men in\e western part OF the
county, agat whom no true bills
were found, lkcpt under bond until
the next graAury.
The abb Impeachment of pros
ecuting witnet are to be the main
reliance OF thfefense in the night