The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-22
ATTORNEYS EXPLAIN
WHAT THEY CAN PROVE

How the disturbance in the Black
Patch has divided families, arraying
brother against brother in deadliest
enmity, and stirring women TO overt
acts of revenge. is clearly shown
forth in the 100000 damage suits
of Robert and Mary Holowell against
their neighbors in Caldwell county,
for the alleged brutal treatment of
the plaintiffs, and driving them from
the state. The suits are on trial in
the federal court here.
While the plaintiffs assert that the
band which whipped Robert Hollo-
well and kicked and shot his wife,
Mary Hollowell the morning of May
2, 1907, was led by Roberts brother,
John E. Hollowell, and his cousin,
John w. Hollowell, and that John E.
Hollowelrs wife was present. because
they feared Mary Hollowell would
tell of their connection with the raid
on Princeton, the defendants are
equally positive that they are accused
through malice, and that Robert and
Mary Hollowell fed from the state
because she was indicted for scrap
ing John Z. Hollowell's tobacco plant
bed. They offer to establish alibis.
The plaintiffs retort that the in
dictment is part of the scheme to
keep them in exile and that 1t was
found while they were living in
Oklahoma, and they returned TO Ken
lucky and lived at Paducah for six
months afterwards. The bench war
rant was served on Mrs. HolowelI
yesterday afternoon and she fur
nished bond in the sum of $3.50.
The allegation is that after Robert
Hollowell's plant bed was scraped
about week before he was whipped
Mary Hollowell melted two negroes
to scrape John E. Hollowell's plan
bed The negroes were convicted.
The statement of the attorneys fol
the plaintiff gives hint of interest
ing details IN connection with thu
Princeton raid of December /, 1906
to be rected in, the testimony o
their witnesses.
The Princeton Masks.
! According to the statement o
John G. Miller, ST., opening the cast
for the plaintiff, the masks worn b!
the night riders who visited Prince
ton were copied from a theater masl
left at Robert Hollowell's boardini
house in Princeton and carried by hi
little boy, when they moved into thu
country near Lamasco.
In his statement Mr.. Miller salt
that the day before Thanksgiving
1906. Mrs. Lula Hollowell, the wifi
of John Z. HollowelN called at Rob
ert Hollowelrs house and asked TO
the mask to use at masquerade a
Lamasco. The night of November 81
Princeton was raided, he said, an'
then John e. Hollowell appeared a
Robert Hollowell's house and awak
ened them to beg Mrs. Hollowell no
to tell about the mask. Miller SAT-
he told her all the facts about th'
princeton raid.
Miller said she asked him banter
ingly when the next fire was goini
to be, and he mentioned the name o
a man in Princeton, who had talke'
too much before Ward Headley, on
of the attorneys in the case, AMI
John f. Hollowell She declared
they burned that mans house sh
would tell all she knew Since tina
time, the attorney said, no fires hav
occurred in Caldwell county.
Christmas week they were all a
the home Of Robert and John f. Hol
lowells mother and John e. Hoho
well made some insulting remar
about Hill'Billies and Mary IIollowe
declared she would rather be Hi
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