The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1920-11-04

ncgros at the camp 10 take trail
which meets the trail Miss Parsons
took about half way between the
railroad and the pike road on the
mountaiuside They placed the time
q, about ~ 10
Doctor Meet. Negro
The doctor told the jury that he
got bach to the trail and when he
reached the pike. which t. about a
quarter of a mile above the convict
camp. he took the pike to the right
instead ~ following the trail. being
uncertain which 60 take Hc said he
looked Tor Miss Parsons tracks. but
could not see any Around the bend
n the pike. he testified he came across
a Negro asleep at the air compressor.
lie aroused the negro and asked
him about the road. The convict told
him he could not make the trip on
the pike and took him back down the
road and showed him another path
which led back into the trail to the
school. several hundred yards beyond
the point wher. Miss Parsons Was
slain. which he took Tie had no
further trouble IN getting 20 the
school. he said
Mis- Parsons. evidence shows. after
crossing IN. mountain pike. went on
up the trail for short distance. 81.
most within calling distance ~ the
pike. and sat down on a rock at the
side Of the trail to eat some candy.
She was attacked there. struck sever.
al blows on the arm with fence
rail and after desperate struggle
was dragged behind the rock The
blows IN her head, which caused her
death, we're delivered while she lay
on the ground, the theory Is. a. there
was no blood ON her clothing
Negro Fisss Time.
Jerry Recdy the negro at the com
pressor. insists that a was after the
train had returned that winnes APP
peared The train goes back past the
convict camp about :25 o'clock.
J II Caldwell. steam shovel guard.
testified that he went up the trail
about | o'clock and that he. did not
see anything % DR.. winnes The
negro. Reedy. maintains winncs APP.
peared long after Caldwell went past
on has way up the road to the steam
shovel Any attempt 20 connect Dr.
Winnes with the crime was predicatcd
on the assumption that he went up
20 trail behind Miss Parsons after
crossl"g the pike and that after the
crime Vas committed. returned to the
pike and then over 10 the compressor.
Several persons az the settlement
school testified that DR. Winnes act
ed like a man who was either crazy
or rugged" and that he remained
a long time in his room after HE ar
rival
Dr Winrn. told a young man who
helped him test the cattle that a
teacher had started over the trail
ahead q him. The next day he told
several 81 the women at the school
and learned that she had not appear
ed WINES left that afternoon Tor
Frankfort. The next night the body
was found by searching party
Discovery % the track Of broken
shoe eight feet 10 the side Of the
trail where the crime was committed
figured the evidence. This shoe. wit,
nesesses testified. Tailed with that on
the mule Of WINES rode. The brok-
en- shoe Was taken off the mule and
fitted into the track This evidence
Was no value. Harlan officials said,
however, owning TO the fact that the
same mule had been over the trail
previously during the week.
The owner Of the mule swore that
he went over the trail with the mule
September 4. that he returned Sep
tember and went back again Sep
TENDER . and that the animal did not