Barbour County index., 1910-02-09
BOUND OVER FOR TRIAL
r. E. Kathren and Geo. Horton
Held to Answer Charge of Bur.
glarizing Gem Drug Store

nLO ShoL ecu Win having Oul loL
lied and robbed the Gem drug
store of $3.50 worth of jewelry
the night of January 29th, was
held before Justice Collins on Mon
day and both defendants were held
for trial in district court which con-
venes next week, on bond of ST.
900 each. Mr.. Kathren furnished
bail but Mf. Horton did not and
was remanded to Jail.
County Attorney Field, Samuel
Griffin and J. N. Tincher prosecut-
ed and G. M. Martin represented
Mr.. Kathren. Mr.. Horton was not
represented.
No testimony was offered by the
defendants and all the states evil
dence was purely circumstantial.
In the case of Horton IT was
stronger than in that of Kathren.
In the latter's case the circum-
stances were very remote. 1t is
the theory of the prosecution that
Horton stole the jewelry and that
Kathren assisted in dispoSing of it.
The greater weight of the evil
dence produced at the preliminary
hearing was a repetition of the
trail followed by the blood hound
brought here from Harper by w.
+. Burt. MIR. Burt testified to the
breeding of the dog and its relia-
bility, as we'll as to go over in de-
tail the trail followed the day fol-
lowing the burglary, from the rear
OF the drug store to Mr.. Kathren's
house. This part of his testimony
was corroborated by G. ]. and Otto
Southworth, who own the store,
Samuel Griffin, attorney, who was
acting as county attorney in the
absence of County Attorney Field,
Sheriff Mathews and a few others.
The defense, of course, claims that
the dogs trailing means nothing,
that it was really driven or guided
and that it had no trail at all.
Another circumstance relied
upon by the prosecution was the
fact that the shoes worn by Geo
Horton, one of the defendants, fit
some shoe tracks found behind
the store the morning after the
burglary.
VIM. Golden testified that he was
with the defendants in Mr.. Kath.
ren's barber shop the night of the
robbery and that all of them were
intoxicated. His testimony, if
true, would show that the defend
ants could not have committed the
crime. AS side issue, Golden
testified that he bought Jamaica
ginger from Mr.. Southworth and
the party got drunk on it: MIR.
Southworth, however, denied SELL
ing Jamaica ginger or any other
liquor to Golden.
Several days were spent by Sher.
at Mathews and his deputies last
week IN making thorough search
OF the premises of Mr.. Kathren and
Mrs. Robinson, the latter being the
mother of George Horton upon
whom the greater suspicion rested.
AT the direction of the ATTORNEYS
prosecuting the case, two carpenters
were employed to make openings
IN the floors of the houses so that
the officers could search under the
houses. AT Mrs. Robinson's house a
weatherboard was also removed,
where a small opening was
visible, and every place was close
ly scrutinized that had even a re.
mote appearance of any possibility
that it might have been used as a
place of hiding. On one of the
days when a search was being
made, Mrs. Kathren was baking
bread, and at the suggestion of one
OF the officers and on the approval
of both Mr.. and Mrs. Kathren, the
loaves of bread were taken out of
the oven and opened but no trace
of any hidden treasures was re-
vealed.
ANOTHER ROBBERY UNEARTHED
On Thursday there was another
unexpected development. Mrs. Rob
inson, mother of George Horton,
one of the defendants, notified the
sheriff that she had found a small
package of rings and other little
pieces of jewelry at the corner of
her house Wednesday evening and
she turned the package over to the
sheriff. When this jewelry was
shown to Mr.. .Southworth he did not
claim any of it. The jewelry was
then shown to G. A. Hibbard, man
ager of the ]. R. Young drug store,
and he claimed it. He said his
store had been broken into about
three weeks ago but he had not
missed anything until he was