Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1916-01-27

In Bad AnSe Havey the combination
Of interests recognized its really most
formidable foe. In the mountain
phrase, he must be 'man-powered out
en- Their wsv." And there were still
men in the hills who, if other means
failed, would sell the service of their
-'ri1e-guns'' for money.
With such as these it became the
care of certain supernumeraries to es-
tablish an understanding. In the last
election a thing had happened which
had not for many years before hap
pened in kentucky-a change of par
ties had swept from power in Frank
fort the administration which owed
loyalty to Havey influences.
Bad Anse Havey was indicted as an
accessory to the murder of young Cal
vim and he would be tried, not in Peril,
but in the Blue Grass. The prosecu-
ton would be able to show that he
had warned the surveyors of his own
place and had picketed his fence line
with rifemen. They would be able to
show that he was the forefront of the
fight against innovation and that
lesser mountain men followed his
counsel blindly and regarded his word
as law. But, more than that, the jurors
who passed on his question of life
and death would be drawn from a com.
munity which knew him only by his
newspaper-made reputation.
So it was not long before Anse
Havey lay in cell in the Winchester
Jail. He had been denied bond and
fronted dreary prospect.
When the trial of Anse Havey be-
gan there was one spirit in the land.
Here was an exponent of the unjusti-
fable system of murder from ambush.
In the cemetery at Lexington, where
sleep the founders of the western en-
pire, lay boy whose life had just be-
gun in all the blossom and sunshine
Of promise-and who had done no
wrong
The special term of the court had
brought to Winchester a throng of
farmer folk and onlookers. Their
horses stood hitched at the racks
about the square when the sheriff led
Anse Havey from the jail to the old
building where he was to face his &C
cusers and the judges who sat on the
bench and in the jury box.
He took his seat with his counsel at
his elbow and listened to the pre-
liminary formalities of impaneling a
jury. His face told nothing, but as
man after man was excused because
he had formed an opinion, he read lit
tie that was hopeful in the outlook
He calmly heard perjured witnesses
from his own country testify that he
had approached them, offering brides
for the killing Of young Calvin which
they had righteously refused He knew
that these men had been bought by
Jim Fletcher and that they swore for
the hire OF syndicate money, but he
only waited patiently for the defense
20 open. He saw the scowl on the
faces in the jury box deepen into con-
v1ction as witness after witness took
the stand against him, and he saw the
faces in the body Of the room mirror
that scowl
Then the prosecution rested, and as
a few Of it's perjuries were punctured,
the faces in the box lightened their
scowl little-but very little. The tide
had set against him, and he knew it.
Unless one of those strangely psyche
logical things should occur which
sweep juries suddenly from their
moorings of fixed opinion, he must be
the sacrifice to Blue Grass wrath, and
on the list Of witnesses under the
hand of his attorney there were only
few names left-pitifully few.
Then Anse Havey saw his chief
counsel set his jaw, as he had trick
of setting it when he faced a forlorn
hope, and throw the list of names
aside as something worthless. AS the
lawyer spoke Anse Havey's face for
the first time lost it's immobility and
showed amazement He bent forward,
wondering if his ears had not tricked
him. His attorneys had not consult
ed him as to this step.
"Mr. Sheriff." commanded the law
yer for the defense, call Miss Juanita
Holland to the stand"