The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-07-15
MARKSDERRy HAS
NOTHING TO SAY AT
THE PEN|TENTIARY
Famous Prisoner Has Nothing to Say
When Delivered to the State Penl.
tiary- Last Week.

The Augusta Chronicle, edited by
Deputy Sheriff Thompson, of Bracken
county, says:
Thomas Marksberry was taken from
the Covington Jail last Thursday to the
Frankfort penitentiary to commence
serving his term of life Imprisonment. :
Marksberry had not learned that his
attorney had asked that his stay Of
execution be dismissed and he be
transferred to prison, although the
prisoner expressed no surprise when
informed that he was to be taken to
Frankfort.
Marksberry had told number of
people that his health was bad In the
Covington Jail, but one would never
Judge this to be fact by looking at
him--he looks the picture Of health
and weighs from Is to rs pounds more
than when placed Under arrest. When
taken to Frankfort, Marksberry wore
white linen suit, soft shirt, string
tie, black English walking shoes, nice
ly polished, and new straw hat-and
looked as though he was going on a
vacation trip instead of sentenced to
spend the remainder of his life In
prison. He talked but very little on
the way, and then only. when address
ed and this had ben his attitude while
in Jail since his trial. Not once did he
express regret as to going to the pen,
neither did he express i'll will toward
anyone.
When questioned Marksberry stated
that the verdict of the jury was
great surprise to him, as he fully ex-
pected acquittal.
When questioned as to his chances
for new trial by the court Of ap-
peals Marksberry stated that Attor-
ney Mclaughlin had ben paid $500
for defending him and that he wanted
$500 more to take the case to higher
court, and that 1t was impossible for
him to raise this amount, although he
believed he could raise $780,
Wednesday night, after being noti-
fed that he was to be taken to Frank
fort the next morning, Marksberry
claims that he got in touch with At
torney John O'Neill, Of Covington, over
the phone, and that 1t was likely that
he would be associated with Attor-
ney Mclaughlin in asking for new
trial, but this looked to the writer as
though he were grabbing at straws-
if impossible to pay one attorney, the
same would apply to two.
When Marksberry left the Covington
jail his right hand was badly swollen,
from small cut between two of his
fingers, and he feared blood poisoning.
When the prisoner arrived at the
gate of the prison, he was compelled
to give up everything he had, included
in which was 20 cents-all he had In
the world. After being searched, the
gate was opened and Marksberry
marched in as unconcerned as If en-
tering his home, with not a backward
glance or a word of farewell to the
men who had conducted hi mthere.
In the opinion of the writer, the
public knows as much about the actual
killing of Jesse Glenn as will ever be
known, and II the missing parts Of the
body are ever found, 1t will be by ac-
cident, as MarRsberry will never con-
fess. The writer told the prisoner on
the way to the penitentiary that 1t was
not the actual murder Of Jesse Glenn
that caused the people of Bracken
county to show such feeling In the
case, but rather the brutal manner in
which the body had ben dismembered
and concealed, and that as long as the
missing parts are not found, this Ill
feeling would remain and the perpe-
traitor Of the crime would have hard
shedding If he ever expected pardon or
parole. Marksberry made no comment
on the above whatever.