The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1909-04-07
MOST. SCATH|NG
ARRANGEMENT.
OF Parrish by States At
torney Ringo.
ALLEGED DEFAULTING BANKER
Held Up to the Gaze and
ScOrn of an Outraged
Community.

of the Commonwealth in the case Of
James H. Parrish, charged with re-
ceiving deposits in defunct bank,
which has been on trial at Hawesville
the past week, Commonwealth's At
torney Ben d. Ringo made the most
scathing denunciation of the Defend
ant and his methods ever heard In
that court house.
He said in part: I'VE will show
you that all the strolling vagabond
had to do was to come to Greensboro
and propose to start any kind Of an
enterprise and make Jim Parrish its
president or treasurer. Then. having
satisfied their gluttonous and bloody
greed for gold, they silently folded
their tents and stole away.
II can account for crimes of pas
sion. = can see how a man will,
while in hot blood, even kill his fell
bowman, but we have here one who
l think is worse than the murderer,
because more deliberate. We will
show you in him as cold-blooded and
deliberate a criminal as ever faced
jury in this or in any other State,
He is a man who has prostituted the
most sacred things. He is notorious
for stealing the livery of heaven to
serve the devil in and most faith
full has been his service. He was
high in his church and he has acted
insincerely so long that he is as
blind as a bat to every moral Ques-
ton that discriminates between mine
and thine. He has been the steam
and the drivewheel as we'll as the
president of this bank, and controlled
all its affairs completely and yet he
claims he did not know. He lived in
an atmosphere of fraud like one who
nostrils become dead to smell. Jim
Parrish has so long breathed false
hood and fraud that ne never got a
breath of Gods pure air.
mo man but a lunatic could have
presided over his bank for so many
years and not know the condition of
the bank. This is his only defense,
L don't know
HE and his family had easy con-
troll of this million-dollar bank and
he used them to get the money from
the bank. He was the most notorious
financial-well, no, ! shall not say
pirate. don't want to reflect on Capt.
Kidd, for he was a known pirate and
did not pretend to be a good church
man. They not only took out the
stock but took cool half million of
other peoples money and appropriat-
ed it to their own use and hundreds
went out on the merest pretext.
"The evil eye of linn Parrish has
corrupted his own relatives and all
whom he got under his influence. He
has withered the moral fiber of every
man On whom his glance has fallen.
But he says he did not know. This
is his only defense.
And yet they will ask you to turn
him loose. God pity us If you do. If
he can make you believe that he did
not know, the angels would snap their
fingers at this court and denounce it
as a bowling farce. He did know. He
could not but know, and we will show
you that he did know.
Jim Parrish is no fool and you
have to convict him either of being
the greatest fool on earth or one of
the greatest criminals.
"He says Providence is taking care
of him. l wonder who is taking care
of the widows and orphans who could
on the first day of last April have
heard a counterfeit nickel rattle in
that bank like bean in a wash tub,
but who could get no further salts
faction for their hard-oarned but lost
money"