Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-09-16
SENSATIONAL SUITS
AGAINST TWO WOMEN
Mrs. Finney Charges Daughter
in-Law and Her Sister Obtain.
ed Money FraudulentIy

On an affidavit filed and signed by
Mrs. Sarah Finney, her daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Lizzie Finney, asd Miss
Florence Tu1pin, the latter's sister,
were placed under arrest Wednesday
afternoon on charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses. Mrs.
Lizzie Finney is also charged in an
other count with having subsequent
to the first alleged fraudulent action.
returned and through similar state-
ments, caused her mother-in-law to
give her another large sum of mo-
ney
The first transaction, according to
the affidavit fled in court here, caused
Mrs. Sarah Finney to give her daugh-
ter-in-law and Miss Turpin $15,-
316.70, she says. The second, as
stated in the affidavit against Mrs.
Lizzie Finney, the plaintiff alleges
she was induced to give over the sum
of $4,000. Mrs. Sarah Finey alleges
that she was made to believe, through
the representations of her daughter
in-law and Miss Turpia that she (Mrs.
Finney) and her daughter-in-law
were being secretly sued, and the
character of the charges were such as
to ruin their regulations and perhaps
cause them to be sent to the penn
tentiary. The payment of the first
sum, it is alleged by the plaintiff, was
made upon her being Informed that it
would require this amount to settle
it. Both women are named in this
affidavit,
Mrs. Sarah Finney further states
in the second affidavit against her
daughter-in-law, in which Miss TuI-
pin is not named, that she was told
by them that one-half of her proper
ty would have to be sacrificed in or
der to settle the matter, that those
at the back of the charges refused to
settle otherwise. This, Che plaintiff
alleges, caused her to dispose of q
piece of her property for $4,000. She
claims to have given her daughterin-
law $4,000 of this amount Later, she
alleges, she was convinced that the
entire proceeding was fraudulent, and
these brought these proceedings.
1t was while Mrs. Sarah Finney
was in Richmond preparing to file the
charge that she is said to have been
that the two defendants
were in the city, and she decided then
and there to have the afidavits fled
The two women were taken into GUS
tody by an officer and County Judge |
w. K. Price was summoned, in order
that this preliminary action would
allow the defendants to be admitted
to bail After some time they COM !
municated with Mrs. Lizzie Finney's i
father, J. H. Turpin, of Estill county, |
who came to Richmond, and the two
were released on bond of $2,500 each,
they not having an examining trial,
not being ready. The trial will be
held Saturday morning, it IS under
stood. The women had little to say
the action and we're ap-
not worried over the pro
ceedings 1t is understood that Mrs.
Lizzie Finney says that her mother
in-law gave her the money in order
that she might save it for her two
children; that it was free-will gift
and with no strings attached to it
and she claims, it is said,
that she will be able to prove this.
Mrs. Lizzie Finney and her sister
were in lawyers office giving depo.
sitions in a suit for divorce which the
former has brought against her hus-
band, Will Finney, at the time the
papers in the above matters were
served on them. Mrs. Finney and her
sister and her young son are said to
be living now in Akron, Ohio. They T
had all made their home here for sew
eral years up until several months
ago.