The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-29
JOKER SENTENCED
TOFNE-YEAR TERM
Agcd Farmer, Lately Charged
With Unmcntionablc Crime
in Floyd, Convicted.
AT FIRST HE DENIED GUILT
Insisted That Act Was Done in
lun-Lieht Sentence Due to
Uniulfllcd Purpose.

Roanoke. Va. November Outstanding bc.
lore crowd that packed tho i!,tle Court
room ., Ficyd Cour,house to The doors and
which stood silent aud undcmons,ra,iye in
con;empl4t!en OF the CRAFTY OF tn. occasion.
ycars az age. This afternoon entered plea
., s9ity - an Indictment charging him
IN effect with hAVins entered the home Of
lifelong neignbor at III hour OF rnidnish,
with heinous intent.
Wiihiu ninety minutes after court con-
vcned at o'clock. TORY had been sentenced
- nv" years Imprisonment Ia the state
Pcnitentiary and ordered removed forthwith
10 the Roanoke County Jail a, salem and
ae!d there until taken IN charge ~ state
:. month AFRO Terry Was esteemed In Floyd
* an upright ana weii-to-do citizen lie
bad be.r Mayor ot The town ana had been
noinc he entered. many years. Within a
night Ms status had changed 20 such an
cNtcnt that on October 81 he was hurried out
"i his home viliag" In charge %: two deputies
hud brought 20 the Roanoke County Jail.
trial on "Wednesday. There WAS demonstrate
non "gains' Terry during his stay In Floyd
fenced. \ Jew hours after lie was arrested the
feeling. Will" not rah!d. was sufficiently
jcrney - order his removal from III. county
Jail At Floyd 10 more secure prison. since
sven the Az. F RGSi c,l sto da as TO BEEN zen
Iard II as a forcgone conclusion THAI Terry
leave the matter in the hands Of THE courts
Motives misunderstood.
terfy expressed himself a short time after
lie came to Roanoke. a. being In the position
OF - man InisunG-rs TODD as to motives lie
said thci: that tho charge against him grew
out ot huge mistake. and that all would
ever, he grew noticeahly less sanguine. and
II Is understood that days before his removal
to Floyd FOR trial I've was resigned to n n-ni-
tertiary Term and arranged his business
mat the evidence. which has been rchearsed
in the public prints from time to time. MAS
TOO strong TO h" overcome. and decided TO
throw himself on the mercy OF the court
Kersey OF Pulaski. who married Terry's onlv
c"uShteT. was III" on!y near relative in the
room The daughter. WHO had visited her
father In tho Roanoke Jail, did not 20 10
her old home. where ne was to he arralgned
as felon.
The crime for which Terry was convicted
daughters of ons OF the most prominent
citizens of Floyd, near neighbors or Terry
we're awakened after midnight 10 find man
III their room under suspicious circun-
teen years old. ran screaming TO the room
~ her father. ana the intruder made his
escape a no had entered over IL porch
ROOF. down a ladder. out through the yard
tally disrobed. rerry'a shoes and other In
eliminating evidence were found at the
foot OF tho ladder when 1t hurried investiga-
ton was made. Within an hour q warrant
had been sworn out and before O'Clock
in tho morning Terry was I'm tail charged
WITH being the intruder. fIc never denied
there for the purpose OF perpetratns Il Joke
Terry was held i'll jail at Floyd until about
noon the day following tho crime. when lie
was brought to Roanoke. He cGnsultod coun-
reached Roanoke. Two of the best known
attorneys 1T the Floyd lar. V. NJ Sowtler
and - 9; coward were called into tho case.