The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-04-16
DR.. WINES freed
OF MURDER CHARGE;
KILLS INDICTMENT
Prosecuting Attorney Moves to Dis.
miss Case Against Veterinarian
Charged With Miss Par.
sons Murder.

NH"tBCu WIN Ehisb iai-
sons Murder.
The indictment against DR.. II. c.
WINES, the veterinarian, charged
with the murder Of Miss Lura Parsons,
the school teacher at Pine Mountain
Settlement school, was dismissed Fri
day on motion Of the Commonwealth
Attorney, says dispatch from Har-
Ian.
DR.. WINES first trial started Feb
ruary 22 last and the jury, which
stood eleven to one for acquittal was
dismissed on February 4. Since that
time he has been free on $4,000 bond
furnished by his attorneys and
friends in Harlan.
The fight to convict DR.. WINES, has
been led by Mrs. Ethel Zande, one Of
the executive heads of the Pine Noun
tain School Through women's clubs
and a few newspapers funds were
raised to pay detectives and to hire A.
Floyd Byrd, of Lexington, as special
prosecutor. DR.. WINES friends in
Jenkins, KY; Cincinnati and through
out the state have been active in his
behalf raising funds to pay for attor-
neys and to defend him.
DR.. WINES became involved in the
case through peculiar string Of cir
cumstances. The entire evidence at
the previous hearing was circumstan-
tial He had been sent 10 the school
from the Office of the state veterinar-
ian in Frankfort to make tuberculosis
tests on the cattle at the institution
He arrived at Dillon, KY, on the same
train that Miss Parsons took from her
home at Berea, KY, where she had
been to visit her father Walter Par
sons.
When DR.. WINES arrived at Dillon.
1t was testified at the first trial, the
man who was to have met him and
escorted him across the mountain, was
unable to go because of illness in his
| family. Evidence was introduced to
show that the school officials had writ
ten the state veterinarian that man
would meet the veterinarian sent and
escort him across the mountain.
The accused man went into Hamp
Lewis store at Dillon and then to the
house of the merchant to get a drink
of water. It was testified that while
in the store he asked how many cat
tele were at the school and Miss Par
sons, who was present, answered,
Learning that she was teacher at the
school and that she did not have
mule-the usual mode of transporta-
ton in the mountains--Dr. WINES Of
fered to hire one for her. She declin-
ed, saying that "others have walked
across and can too"
Miss Parsons left Dillon in advance
of DR.. WINES She walked up the rail
road track to the Pine Mountain trail.
turned into it and last was seen alive
as she passed state convict camp
where negroes working on the Pine
Mountain road were housed. Her body
was found two days later several hun
bred yards above the convict camp.
The question of the difference in
time between the departure of Miss
Parsons and DR.. WINES from Dillon
figured extensively in the case. 1t was
claimed by the state that DR.. WINES
left only few minutes behind the
woman. The defense claimed that the
difference was at least three quarters
of an hour and probably longer. Tes-
timony of a number. of witnesses was
given to show this difference claimed
by the defense, while others testified
for the state that they saw both Miss
Parsons and DR.. WINES within a
short time going along the railroad
track.
The defense endeavored to show
that convicts at the camp had chance
to commit the crime. The state COM
batted this theory from every angle
and introduced evidence intended tt
account for the whereabouts Of the
negroes during the period around
noon of the day of the crime, when II
is supposed to have been committed
Inmates of the camp and guards tes-
titled to seeing Miss Parson pass. This
was the last time she was seen alive
except by the slayer.
Sometime later DR.. WINES passed
the camp and finally wound up at the
air compressor, where Jerry Reed, a
convict. and tender of the compressor.
told him he was off the trail and pur
him on the right one