The Sentinel=record., 1916-12-22

"Georee Bailey
 All of the stors
 Dave Short
 son. and wit be
 next February
 exact date of his
 We named him
 the eather "The
 from his grandfa--x
 tian man, aan
 ister who bi I'd VI
 little infanN NSs had god
 training all his life, and h
 a good boy until he ran aw
 school last summer"
 Isaac Perry Davidson
 story as Dave Short" |
 esting in review When
 tured in the woods he toi
 imposition on the part
 two men with whom he VI
 ed He said that Bailey wa
 of the gang, and that Baild
 him to join them and takq
 stock. He told that wher
 up to the Robbins place to
 cattle that he supposed Bq
 sTarks were buying them,
 he was only taken along toA
 ing. He told that he was onlyN
 nocent party, thot he first | Bailey iI Hot Springs some weeT
 ago, and that he met fSparks' fir
 at Lcnsdale soon aftcI and that was hired by them to join and work about their caHk
 Young Davidson all A.ld that
 was born in Nlississip that ti
 other two men also clal ley can from Mississippi I-e W he was six months old <l ger hs
 died and that his tatber had
 him away. and that his had been
 hard lot since. The story had sod ,rossibi.tes in it and some beiey it. Many who did not believe 1t fu1l
 would have been willing in d flnal te
 to give tuis young country boy Il benefit ot the doubt
 Davidson also told of abuse fr Bailey the night O. the first chase freedom He told that Baileys ho
 was shot by the pursuing men, that Bailey had cursed him and tn
 ened to bil, him, and that Bailey ! the horse he was riding from and left him with the wounded nd \, | Of course now it Is practically tain that "Bailey's" horse was never shot, at least in that first day of chase, l but that on the contrary the youlgeE boy $ horse was wounded, and that in 1 the chase that followed the older 1 brothers rode ahead, thinking the younger brother would come along later. and was perhaps making Cess 1 ueadVay riding over tho ico and snow l that they were. {, No oae will now believe that the older brother even Knew the younger was falling back cungh to be lo5L Men of this type of bandits, Il t I bound by blcod. but only by conrad e- ! ship. do not leave each other to ths mercy oc the law Certainty less would have either of these elder bzolh CTS knowingly left young Isaac Perry ! Davidson behind had they known his horse was wounded or that he would be unable to keep as clear of the fol. owing posses as either of them
 Tine entire story of the younger p1 ridson is shattered. There is thing 1 left oi it IL was matched up in its NeG titung detail out on bed Of ice on a mountain side when he lay in the woods for perhaps twelve hpugs without food, and half frozen with cold It was gone over enough 10 be lpausable, and it was perhaps tool enough to get him past trial jury had 1t not been torn apart as it was yesterday afternoon. The Mothers Sorrow. Saddest of all in connection with the whole story will be the word that goes back to the mother Mr and Mrs. Davidson are the head of a large family. There is son at home about s years of age and an other about T years of age. There are three daughters, two of whom are grown, and another younger girl The mother heard the news that was brought to their home that the two dead bandits killed in the noun tains near Hot Surincs were her boys, 1 but she did not believe it. Perhaps her faith in unfalterins prayer had led her to know within her mothers heart that the two slain bandits were not her sons At any rate her faith was none the less than the faith of the father than q visit here would prove the story untrue.
 The naws that will go back to her. the father says. will be almost a fatal hlow It will be taken back slow. They live far out in the country, and it will not be filtered through by ac'
 cident. Perhaps the father will leave today for his home so that he him
 self might he with the companion of his life when the trial comes. Last night the father did not know what ~ CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE