The Dolores star., 1917-02-23

yofo f1o0 concentration suits with In
di6efeat success. and then reached
out their hands for . new weapon.
Back In the old days, when Ken
tucky was mot Q state but . county.
land patents had been granted BY
Virginia to men who had never
claimed their property. For two hum
dred years other men who settled ~
pioneers had held undisturbed posses
sion. they and their children's chill
drsn- Now into the courts piled multi
tudinous suits OF eviction I'm the names
Of plaintiffs whose eyes had never
seen the broken skyline Of ths Cum-
berlauds. Their purpose was deceit,
since Il sought TO drag through long
and costly litigation pauper landhold-
err and to impose such CALLING bur.
den upon their property a. should
drive them to terms Of surrender.
Mem and women who owned, Or
thought they owned. Q log shack and .
fitting cornneld found themselves fac
ing Q new and bswildering crisis.
Their untaught minds brooded and
they TALKED violently Of holding BY
title of rifle what heir fathers had
wrested from nature. what they had
tended with sweat and endless toll.
But Anse Havey and Milt McBriar
knew that the day was at hand when
the rifle would no longer serve. They
employed lawyers lifted to meet those
other lawyers and give them battle In
the courts. and these lawyers were
paid by Anse Havey and Milt Nc
Briar.
The two stood stanchly together %
. buffer between their almost help
less people and the encroaching ten
tacles Of the new octopus, while Juan
ita, looking ON at the forming Of the
battlelines, was torn with anxiety.
In Bad Anse Havey the combination
Of interests recognised its really most
formidable foe. In the mountain
phrase. he must be 'man-powered out
en- ther way" And there were still
men in the hills who. II other means
failed. would sell the service Of their
"rine-guns" for money.
With such ~ these It became the
care OF certain supernumeraries to e.
tablish an understanding. In the last
election thing had happened which
had mot for many year.! 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 % an
accessory to the murder Of young Cal
win and he wouldHbe tried, not In Peril,
but In the Blue Grass. The prosecu-
tion would be able to show that he
had warned the surveyors on his own
place and had picketed his fence line
with rinemen. They would be able to
show that he was the forefront Of the
hght against innovation and that
lesser mountain men followed HE
counsel blindly and regarded his word
a. law. But, more than that, the Jurors
who passed ON his question OF life
and death would be drawn from Q COM
munity which knew him only by his
newspaper-made reputation.
30 It wac not long before Anse
Havsy 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 q 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 40.
cusers and the judges who sat on the
bench and ip the Jury box.
He took his seat with his counsel NJ
his elbow and listened to the pre-
liminary .formalities of impanelinE a
jury. His face told nothing, but an
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 bribes
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
to Open He saw the scowl nm the
faces in the Jury box deepen into con-
viction 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 its perjuries were punctured.
the faces in the boz lightened their
scowl q little but very little. The tide
had set against him. and he knew It.
Unless one Of those strangely psycho-
logical things should occur which
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