The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-04-22
MRS. HOLL0WELL GIVES BOND HERE.
WITNESSES BEING
EXAMINED TODAY

Robert f. Hollowell, the plaintiff,
was the first witness called in the
100000 damage suits in federal
court against 2S citizens of Caldwell
county, charged with whipping Robert
and Mary Hollowell and driving them
out of the state.
He said 1.-The first heard of the
approach of the mob was the shooting
up of the house of tenants on my
place. The mob drew nearer and
heard orders to close in around my
house. Ny wife and l were ordered
to come ont. We stayed in the house
until we heard some one say: Bring
the coal oil. When | went out saw
George Brown, John f. Hollowell and
another man on the back porch. All
three made us go out in the yard.
! Brown shook his fist In my wife's face
and told her she had been before one
grand jury. but she never would have
chance to go before another. The
association came here to win and b.
CT would win"
The witness said he recognized all
the defendants in the mob. Some were
on top of the house he said.
John f. Hollowell is his brother,
and John w. Hollowell is his cousin.
There were about so and they were
not masked. They said: I'VE did not
come here masked We want you to
recognize u.s.
1
worked against the association, but
you must join It,, We will give you
one week to do It. If you tell who is
here we shall kill you"
John Gray held pistol and Milt
and Wallace Oliver took hold of his
arms and carried him to the wood
yard he said, and made him take off
his coat. He was led Il yards further
the men kicking and cursing him and
calling him a plant bed scraper. They
voted to give him fifty"
He said Marion Brown and Malachi
Pickering whipped him and John Gray
held a pistol over him.
When he went back to the house,
he heard someone say C. d. it.
Jim, shoot her,"
After all had left, while he and his
wife and child were sitting on the
floor crying, he said: Brother John
and the divers and Jim Hyde, re-
turned and ordered him to cave the
country" He said he begged his
brother to leave them alone, and he
prfaI IN ba h. hn
story.
Brown, he said, ordered him to join
the ASSOCIATION. and the next day he
went to Joe Murphy's and signed the
association pledge.
He could not lie on his left side for
several weeks. He was not able to
work fer three months
When he returned to the house his
wife's face was bleeding and she had
a bruise. where she had been kicked
in the side. He lost crop and sold
his farm and stock at a sacrifice.
Characterization.
The cross-examination was conduct
Gu by Ward Headley, of Princeton.
Mr.. Hollowell denied having told
Arch Hollowelll, George Petty, Lee
Robertson, of Paducah, and others
that the mob was masked and he did
not recognize any of them. He said
some in the rear he did not recognize,
but he stuck to his original story that
George Brown was in charge. He
said he has been going back to Cald-
well county on business. He said he
refused TO tell the names of the mob
to the county attorney of Caldwell
county. because he feared he would he
: Killed In SO hours after he did so.
Price Hoiloweli.
| Price Hollowell, 12 years old, son
/ Iof the Plaintiffs, said he heard the