The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-09-06
ALLEGED 'NHITECAP PPERS HELD DFORGRAND Jury
WESLEY SUTTON GIVEN
preliminary HEARING

HUSBAND, ELIZA ADAMS AND AR.
LIE STEVENS HEEDjNSTHE SUM
OF FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO
AWAIT EAcTIoNi OF SIXTEEN
MEN WHO .WlLL9INoulRE INTO
THE, CASE.
= The preliminary hearing In, the case
OF the State VS.. Wesley sdton, Eliza
Adams ana srile Stevens was held
today before Justice Z. s. Amos In
the county court room. The room
was filled with auditors eager to hear
the story that the prosecuting wltness
had to tell. "a
The hearing was to have started n,
nine o'clock but In tlie absence OF Ar.
lie Stevens. 1t was delayed for quite
u while who was out hunting a wit.
Eess. When Stevens!returned he was
arrested. His name was inserted In
the warrant in lien Of John Doe. He
was willing to hav, his hearing with
Sutton and Adams.
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The witnesses forithe State were
sworn and defense separated.
Mrs. Chattie Sutton was the first
witness called by the State. She is
'thirty-one years old and the wife OF
one of the defendnrts, Wesley s. Suit.
ton. They were married at Oakland
fourteen years ago. ITO them have
been born three children aged thir-
teen, ten and eight years. Z 9;
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tho oyon,s that occurrea In ber home
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nor
sho s,,d that sbo and her daughters
had boan nj tho homo or Levi Jenkins
IN TIM, Inighi and re,urned IN their
homo about Ton o.c,ock After hcr =.
turn sho nrt hor veost IN rise and re.
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