The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1908-04-29
FINLEY NOW IN
u PERFECT HEALTH
No Intention of Returning
to Kentucky.
SUSPICIOUS Of ALL COMERS
Sits in Dining Room With
Back to Wall-EatS Only
Special Food.

Maltinsville, Ind, April PA ques-
zion generally asked here is: when
will w, S. Taylor and Charles Fin
ley return to Kentucky for trial?"
For three years after leaving Ken
lucky, Finley made his home here in
Martinsville. To all the inhabitants
he said he and Taylor would return
to Kentucky if they could be guaran-
teed fair trials. Gov. Augustus E.
Wilson has promised all the men
charged with completely in the murder
of William Goebel fair and i'm
partial trials, but thus far it does not
appear that Taylor and Finley have
made any preparations for returning
TO their native state. It may be that
they are waiting to be sent for, so it
is said here, but Immediately after
the election Gov. Wilson 1t was an
nounced that both men would return
to Kentucky on their own motion.
Finley returned here this week after
a trip through the West for the bene-
fit of his health. He gained some
twenty pounds while away in Colorado
and Arizona, and instead of being a
"dying man." as reported, he is now
full of health, vigor and strength.
He will not discuss his plans or in
tentions. Finley says himself that he
Is now in perfect health.
-The Election of Augustus E. Will
son TO the goyernorship has made no
oilhnge in Finley's rules of living,
however. Upon coming here several
years ago he took up his home at the
Mhrlinsville sanitarium. He selected
a seat in the dining room in one of
the most remote corners. From this
seat he can see every man who en-
Jeis the room and from it he has a
complete survey of every entrance and
exit. In this seat his back is close to
the wall and in all the years he has
been a fugitive he has never allowed
anyone TO pass behind him while eat
ing his meals. While on the big veran-
das of the hotel he never permits his
back to be exposed. While reading,
talking or playing cards with the
guests he always Sis with his back
10 the wall and in position where
he can command a complete view of
the surroundings.
When he returned here last Tues
day for a short stay he took his old
seat in the dining-room and no one
entered that his quick, furtive eyes
did not size up in a glance that was
sharp, piercing and inQuiring. His
friends say he continuously imagines
that he is being hunted and that Of
ficers of the law are watching his
footsteps.
During Finley's long stay here prior
TO Gov. Wilson's election he never
ate a meal that was not especially
prepareded by woman attache of the
hotel in whom Finley had and now
has the most implicit confidence. lie
was afraid of poison, his friends say,
and never a bite of food passed his
lips until he was assured that it had
Leen cooked by the woman to whom
ii is said he is deeply devoted.
By a trusted friend upon several
occasions it is claimed Finley receiv-
ed boxes of beaten biscuits from Ken
lucky relatives, but he never ate
them, as one of his friends said they
had passed through too many hands"
Prior to the Republican victory
in Kentucky Finley frequently told
friends here that he would never be
Jailed alive" by kentucky officers.
1t is nor known whether he still ad-
heres TO this purpose.
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