The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-23
HOLLOWELL CASE
CONTINUED from page one.)
Yesterday Afternoon.

Yesterday Afternoon.
In the dreary round of testimony
to show where the defendants were
and Mary Hollowell the morning of
May 2, 1907, and the testimony of
number of neighbors, who said they
would not believe the plaintiffs under
oath, which took up the greater part
of yesterday afternoon. some flashes
of interest were aroused, especially
when County Attorney Baker of
Caldwell county, testified that Rob-
ert Hollowell told him he did not
recognize a single member of the
band of night riders. because they
were all heavily masked This was
brought out in the questioning of
counsel for the plaintiff to ascertain
what steps the Caldwell county au-
thorities had taken to apprehend the
|assailants.
Baker said he is a member of the
Dark Tobacco Growers Protective
association, although he does not
raise any tobacco, and he admitted
hat he might have said to John G.
Miller, Sr., of Paducah, In the Hem
,etta hotel at Princeton, that II was
not tobacco trouble which caused the
attack on the Hollowells, but the bad
character of Mrs. Hollowell, which
Induced neighbors to drive the family
away.
Magistrate Cantrell, of that dis
trict. was another witness to the bad
/ character of the plaintiffs. He said
Robert Hollowell told him the night
'iders were completely disguised with
masks. To these statements Robert
Hollowell made explanations that he
said to them he could not tell who
lis assailants were; because he feared
hey would XII him.
: Squire Cantrell was also an abb
witness for his brother-in-law, Marion
Brown, one Of the men accused of
whipping Hollowell. He said he was
aroused by the shots, but aside from
| earning from Hollowell that the
| men were masked he made no fur
her official investigation.
Local interest attached to the
testimony of Albert Alfred Mitchell,
| cousin of Robert and John E. Hollo-
we'll. Mr.. Mitchell declared that
Robert Hollowell told him in Lee
Robertson's saloon in Paducah that
| he men were masked and he (Hollo-
well) did not recognize any of them.
Then the jury was sent from the
room and Judge Evans read aloud a
letter, which Mitchell admitted hav-
ing written to Robertson, in which
Mitchell told Robertson to get Rob.
ert Hollowell to go before "the
Judge" and swear he did not recog-
nize any of the night riders. He
said no man could use the farm as
long as Robert Hollowell made
threats and if he did not make oath
not even the fences would be left.
He said he was trying to lease the
farm after Hollowell had left. In
the letter he said he desired the farm
for John"
Lee Robertson testified that he
Overheard Hollowell inform Charlie
Graham, of Paducah. that he did not
recognize any of the night riders.
Graham was not introduced, although
he was in the room.
Among the character witnesses in
troduced by the defense to discredit
Mrs. Hollowell was the Rev. John
Cunningham, Baptist minister, for
lmerly of Lamasco.
The Alibis.
In establishing their alibis James
Hyde had DR.. Settler at his house
between midnight and o'clock at
tending a case of Group: John Tur-
ner had acute indigestion and DR..
Morril was with him between mid
night and 3 O'Clock, and the doctor
awoke John Gray when he heard the
| shots fired.
William Tandy's folks heard him
go to bed shortly after the clock
struck ~.
Sid Smiths wife and children and
two colored boys saw him in the
house that night.
Milton Oliver got up after mid
night and chased stallion out of his
mule pen. Robert and Oscar Gray,
farm hands, remembered the occur
lrence.
Clifton Larkin was awakened by