Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-06-07
COURT HELPS IN
ROAD BUILDING
Many Sinners Face the Bar
of Justice and Will Work
For State For a Season.


been accomplished, and the work OF
building roads throughout the State
will be given an impetus by the ad.
dition of several men to the road
forces.
Joe Keen, fined $25 last December.
by Magistrate at Richlands, for
misappropriating hog, had his day
In Court the first of the week, having
appealed from the Judgment of the
Magistrate. The charge of larceny
was modified to unlawful trespass and
Keen confessed, the fine and costs.
not including his lawyers fee.
amounting to $71.
Gregory Saccoia, an Italian, con
fessed to shooting another Italian.
Tony Loretto, at Cedar Bluff. and
was given one year in the peniten-
tiary.
Jasper Richards, colored, was con-
victed of breaking in another negro's
shanty in Pocahontas and was given
five years i'll the penitentiary.
Jim Taylor, colored, was convicted
of assauting another negro in Poca.
hontas with billiard cue, and fined
by Police Justice Owens, $50. He
appealed to the Circuit Court, and
Justice Owen S judgment was upheld,
the fine and costs amounting to $40.
Zimmerman Wade, colored, fined in
Pocahontas by Magistrate Landon.
$3.50, appealed to the Circuit Court.
Charges $19.25.
Robert Steele, indicted for stealing
a horse the last day of the Fair,
whose case has been continued each
term of court since, on account o:
lack of evidence. was compromised
by verdict of unlawful trespass. the
fine and costs amounting to $75.
Ernest Howard a light-fngered
colored brother of Pocahontas, was
convicted of lifting the kale from
another negro's clothes, and given
two years in the penitentiary.
Indictment against Martin Grey for
larceny, dismissed on account of the
failure of the prosecuting witness
memory.
George E. Watlingon, brought to
Jail here several weeks ago, charged
with the murder of William Beavers
on Dry Fork, was not inuicted by the
grand jury and was released. He
indicated before leaving Tazewell
that he was not going back to the
scene of the, murder, but would prob
ably locate in Kentucky.
Sergeant Thompson returned from
Richmond Tuesday morning, where he
had been to take James Atkins to the
reform school. Atkins is from Pound
ing Mill, and was charged with var
ious offenses. The Sergeant had
most strenuous trip. To begin with,
after reaching Richmond Atk ins gave
him the slip, and it took the entire
police force of the Capitol city to
catch him. He was finally landed in
the reformatory at Laurel, where the
kinks will be taken out of him.
Mrs. Nathy Reed, the white woman
recently sent here from Raven, charg-
ed with bigamy. was released last
Friday afternoon, and told to 90 her
way and sin no more. Mrs. Reed was
the victim of brute of a husband.
whom she is said to have married
when she was twelve years old. She
was of the impression that she had
been divorced from him, and when
hubby No. 2 came along she immed-
lately acquiesced, and was married to
him also. The first husband heard of
the marriage in some way and came
to Raven and had her arrested.
Will Bolding, of Raven, who was
released by the Circuit Court here
last Friday by habeas corpus proceed
ings, was rearrested at Raven the
same day and brought back here to
jail, by Constable LID. Boyd. Bold
ing was tried and sentenced to six
months in the county jail week or
more ago for disturbing public wor-
ship at Raven, and appealed his case
to the Circuit Court. A flaw was
found in the commitment papers by
Bolding's attorney, and the proceed
ings were instituted which released
him. However, the chances are good
now that he will be here when the
robins wend their way southwark
again
The offense with which he was
charged and sentenced to Jail was {
most fragrant violation of law. 1t is
said that he attended a revival meet
ing, recently held at Raven, ant
started fight in the meeting which