Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-08-18

vent from the Black school to
5hearer, walked down the rail
road tracks to the river, went
cross on the railroad bridge to
Ford; and then she Went to the
corn6eid near Jones house. Ask
ID why she did not go in, she Said
that Jones had told her that if she
ran away from home that she
could not come to his house.
Judge Price and in fact, every
one was amazed by the story the
girl told The Judge questioned
her at length himself. He told
her that no sane man would be-
lieve any such story, and that un-
less she wanted to go to the Re
form School herself as delin-
quent, she would have to tell the
truth. AS the girl still stuck to
to her story, Judge Price peremp-
torily directed Sheriff Whitlock
to take Jones to jail to begin
serving the sentence imposed by
the jury, and take the girl into
custody.
The girl, her parents and the
attorneys went to Judge Prices
office, where the Judge, the at
torneys and the child's parents
made every effort to induce her
to tell the truth, to save herself
from the Reform School. Judge
Price said unless she did tell ex-
actly where she, was and about
her leaving the school and not try
shield anyone, he would send her
to the Reform School until she
was was 2l years of~age. She
was told that nothing she could
say would save Jones. She ask
ed where he was and was told
that he had already gone to jail.
After the little girl had been
talked to at length by County At
torney Jackson in fatherly way,
and shown the error of what She
was doing, she broke down and
said she would tell the story Of
Just what had happened. She
said she went with Jones in his
buggy, short distance down the
road, walked across the railroad
bridge, and down the pike to be-
yond the Boonesboro ferry. She
then got into the buggy again,
and went home with Jones. Mr..
Jackson wrote down her story as
an affidavit and she swore to it
before Judge Price, after the lat
ter had asked her if it was true.
She was then allowed to go home
with her parents, while Jones re-
NAMED in jail.
County Attorney Jackson will
go before the grand jury is is said
and seek to have Jones indicted
on charge of perjury, inasmuch
as he swore repeatedly on the
witness stand Friday that he did
not take the girl in his buggy nor
have her at his home. Jones has
50 days in jail to serve on the de-
linquency charge and an appealed
sentence of 20 days, also before
him on the pistol charge, so that
be has some little time to spend
in the Madison county jail before
the question of perjury charge
is brought against him. This
would have to be done at the Oc-
tober term of the Madison circuit
court.
The affidavit that Maggie
Stone swore to before Judge
Price reads as follows:
Commonwealth of Kentucky,
County of Madison.
The afiant, Maggie Stone,
states under oath that about II
O'clock, August 4th, 1919, that
Gardner Jones QlQ come 10 the
school house, known as the Black
school house, driving a no-top
buggy, and asked the affiant to
go home with him; and that she
got in the said buggy, and rode
down the pike a short distance to
where Mr.. Young used to live,
and that this affiant went through
a field to Shearer station, and
walked down the railroad and
crossed the railroad bridge and
then went around down the pike
to Boonesboro, below the ferry,
and that the said Gardner Jones
came along and caught up with