Pocahontas star herald., 1926-03-11
NOTICE
To whom this may concern

are SOlnS through the country dDOuI
me and some girls.
First, l want to mention how the
| lies were started. On one Monday
evening between ~ and 1 o'clock, Mr..
Leo Rickman and myself had started
| to PocahOntas on some business and
after we had passed Brockett there
was two girls going toward town and
as gentlemen we asked them to ride,
as the car was not loaded. l did not
know the girls nor neither did Rick
man. And furthermore / want to say
that this was the first time and the
only time | saw the girls, until the
last day of last month.
So the news is out that Hickman
and | went and got the girls at night
and carried them all over the bottoms
and so l wish you would read the fol-
lowing statement: "Mr. jackson mis-
understood me. / am saying that Al
win Tyler never went over in the bot
toms with some girls, for 7 was along
all the time. Signed Leo Hickman"
When Mr.. Hickman wrote this state
ment | didn't know that they were
telling any of the false exceptions that
we drove the girls over in the bottoms.
But since then / heard they were tell
ing that we went by and got the girls
and drove them over in the bottoms
after night, and left them at a dance
And that l tried to pass myself as n
single man.
Through court one of the girls was
staying at Pocahontas. Some time dur
ing the week of court l was at town
and deupty sheriff walked up and
showed me a false or bogus warrant
for insulting" He said he thought
it would scare me and he would have
some fun.
l want the people to know that these
false rumors over the county were abb
solutely started by persons who have
since rescinded their statements Two
of them say that one of the girls told
it mt Pocahontas in the presence of
Lawrence Massey and Houston Brown.
And all that | can get Mr.. Brown to
say Is that he did not pay much at
tenti0n to the talk. l asked Mr.. Brown
If ii was not the fact that the girl was
telling about her and her sister riding
In the car with us, and said Tyler
called himself preacher" Then Mas
sey laughed and said "Yes, he is a
preacher. he turned me out of the
church the other day"
And Brown said that was about
what was said. Then he said II turn
ed to Lawrence and said the preacher
hasn't got anything on us now Law
renee" Brown said the reason that
he made these remarks was because
the day before l was at town and was
joking him and Massey about talking
to some girls and their wives at home
at work. And Brown said that was
about all Of the conversation at the |
breakfast table.
Then as they went down in town
they thought how funny 1t would be TO |
write up the warrant. And it was his
understanding that they would not say |
any more about it after they had some
fun out of me.
SO these parties started the news,
which they said that the girl told
them. | don't say that the girl told
them or she didn't but do say what
they are telling is false.
| am sorry to say it but the boys
are not telling the same story, Jackson
said In the presence of Will and Grace
Roach and my wife, that the girl said
In the presence of the boys that 1 play
ed with her garters. Then read the
statement made and signed as follows
81 never heard her say anything about
Alvin playing with her garters. Sign
ed G. L. Massey"
And Massey is telling that l never
left the girls until between ! and 2
O'Clock that night and Jackson said 1t
was between 10 and II o'clock, so they |
forgot what the girl said about it or
they forgot their agreement. can
prove by my wife that no time while |
we were at Maynard that / was ever
out after 0 o'clock without she was in
my presence.
The girls said Il was on Thursday |
night after the first Sunday in Janu- |
airy. On that Thursday night i was
by my wife's bedside. I had the doctor |
wife's sister was there and she will |
state the same.
And the boys said TINT she told them
II was Thursday night before court
set | conducted prayer services that
night at Maynard.
VIII Roach and wife, my wife and l
drove over and talked to the girls.
They told about the same story that
the UOyH tOlu tANtDt thCit hooh oi.s
thing said or done out of the way while
we was with them.
don't know why the girls told such
IA story without they had been hired.
And | don't know why anyone would
have hired them to tell such unless
they were afraid that l might do some
thing about the warrant Or someone
was afraid that l would make them
sign lie bill II they could not prove
the false that they had talked by the
girls Or some certain party who has
given me a had name ever since l have
been preaching for no other cause ex-
cept righteousness.
when the boys would tell this they
would say, "it is the truth, the preach,
er is not denying it." SO please read
the following statement, written by
the deputy signed by him and Mas.
sey: FEB 2S, 1926. To whom this
may concern: This is to certify
have known Alvin Tyler for some 'ime
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