The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-08-28

WHOLESALE INDICT-
MENT OF BANKERS
INTERESTED In the Defunct
0wensboro Banks.
Judge Birkhead and Mr.. Ring0
Urged the Grand Jury to
Go After Them

matter II l can get the court and
jurors TO do it. am going to
turn the spotlight on this business
going to find where the guilt lies.
Mr.. Finn and myself" 1t was in this
manner that the Hon. Ben ID. Ringo,
commonwealth attorney for the Sixth
judicial district, addressed the members
of the grand jury at the opening Of the
August criminal term of the Daviess
circuit court Monday morning.
Mr.. Ringo's statement received care
full attention from every member OF
the panel. II had to do with the bank
cases that are expected to come up for
trial at this term of court.
Declaring that he believed the men
responsible for the failures of the two
Greensboro banks to be guilty of
crime under the laws of Kentucky,
the states representative said that it is
needless to say that these men will
not get fair and impartial trial, land
ii shall be the part of the state
to see that they will get a trial as
speedily as the law of the land will
permit"
JUDGE BIRKHEAD'S STATEMENT.
Circuit Judge Birkhead made full
statement to the jury. He said in part:
II know you will do your duty.
Shirk, never; regard friendship, never.
You are officers. You have behind
you the solemnity of an oath that
you cannot ignore. II facts warrant it
you must bring in indictments. Friend
ship or business ties must not appear
in courts of justice. You will not re-
gard them" He warned any man
who felt the burden of the heavy re-
sponsibilities too great for him, he
conscience clear. Remember your oath.
Let no guilty man escape you. but
indict no innocent man. The man who
acts in a public capacity acts in the
will of the legislature to make socie-
ty better. You would probably pre-
fer not to have this responsibility, but
some one must do this duty. You have
assumed it now and you must let your
good judgment point to the right;
then you will do your duty. Remember
that the high stand in this court as
the low; the rich just like the poor.
Apply the law to the highest, If you
feel that they are guilty. Indict every
guilty man who has deliberately viola
ted the law. Indict no innocent man.
Do your duty. "-Owensboro Messen-
ger.
Following the patriotic stand ia
ken by Judge Birkhead and Mr.. Ringo
windfall of indictments against Of
ficers connected with the two Owens
boro banks which failed few months
ago were returned this afternoon by
the grand jury of the Daviess Cir
cult Court says Wednesdays Owens
boro Inquirer:
Those indicted are james II. Par
IRISH, president; J. Otis Parrish, CASH
Ter, and l. n. Parrish, trust officer of
the defunct Owensboro Savings Bank
and Trust Company, and T. S. Ander-
son, president of the Daviess County
Bank and Trust Company.
James H. Parrish was indicted on
four charges as follows:
Embezzlement.
Subornation Of perjury.
Receiving deposits after the bank
was known by him to be insolvent,
two indictments.
J. Otis Parrish is indicted on the
charge OF perjury by falsely swearing
to the March 81, 1908. quarterly state
ment of the Owensboro Savings Bank
and Trust Company.
Isaac n. Parrish is indicted on the
charge of making a false entry in the
March 81, 1908, statement, in which
he entered an item of 100000 as due
from the Daviess County Bank and
Trust Company, when by sworn state
nicut VI AuuCi Sui, picoiucHt vi
the latter named bank did not owe the
Savings bank or another State bank |
one cent
James II. Parrish is charged with |
embezzlement by converting the funds !
of the bank to his own private uses.
The subornation of perjury charge
is on the grounds that he procured
his brother. /. n. Parrish, trust officer
of the bank, to make the 100000 false
entry in the March 81. 1908. state
ment.
T.. S. Anderson, president of the
defunct Daviess County Bank and
Trust Company is indicted three times
as follows: 4
Perjury by swearing falsely to the
quarterly statement of the bank on
March 81, 1908.
Embezzlement by converting the
funds o, the bank to his own private