The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-07-14
FATHER and 5
SONS IN PRISON
Moonshine and Tennessee
Mountain Life Blamed
for Downfall.

Cincinnati. Ohio. Five of his
sons I'm feIon's cells. the eldest con
demned to living death--life sn-'
tence, without hope of pardon. for
the coId-biooded murder of Il yoang
woman-the sixth, barely fit; IN,
snatched from him u; Uie INV in
the hope that change If environ
ment may eradicate the crinliral
tendencies that apparently are N
herent, Frank Anglican, tifty-thrce.
liquor-soaked product OF rhe Ten
nessee hills. is In the county j;tii
meditating on an ill-spent life.
Like q tale from the Ara!lan
Nights reads the story of the sous,
whose criminal Vaccinations have
run the gamut from common lar
ceny to automobile theft, burglary,
arson, assault, highway robbery
and, finally, murder. 1t was the
brutal Staying of Shirley CLARION,
referred to as the ''flaxen-halred
flapper," young and estranged
wife, whose life was snuffed OUT
by bullet from behind as she In
dulged In a petting party with Pc
ter Brown on lonely road, whicn
barred the details of many roadside
robberies and other crimes in which
three Anglican brothers confessed
participation. as well as the check
cred page of a lifetime of more or
less serious crimes In which the
male members OF the family rev.
eled.
ili-Fitted to Face World.
Psychologists will contend, and
not without substantial basis, that
the hemmed-in life in the mountain
valleys thatspreciude schooling and
healthy environment sounds the
keynote. Certain it is the Anglican
family emerged from their cabin in
the hills Inflated to face the pit
falls of the outer world and were
easy prey to the glib-tongued Grim
inals infesting the city.
1t was easy for Bill Anglican, un-
sophisticated mountain lad of sew
enteen, when the family migrated
to Cincinnati IL years ago, to have
his head turned by the easy man
ner In which, under the tutelage of
the criminals with whom he had
cast his lot, he stripped" an auto
mobile his first job. The acces-
series and tires did not bring much
return financially, but to the mind
Of the mountain youth, to whom a
dollar was almost a fortune, it was
big money. And getting It was so
easy.
Again and again the gang es-
sayed similar Jobs successfully, I'M
til the small return began to pail on
Anglican. Big, raw-boned noun
taineer. with muscles hardened by
hardship, he yisioned real money
in bigger field, leaving the auto
jobs to the pikers.
1t was easy to induce his broth
er John, two years his Junior, to
join him In leadership of what be-
came known to the underworld as
the Anglican gang. the. existence of
which. strange to say, was I'M
known to the authorities until q
keen-eyed patrolman, following q
slender clew, brought about the ar
rest of one Of the gang, which
proved the opening wedge in tear
ing apart the well-constructed all
bis and revealed the gruesome tale
Of theft. assault and murder.
Brothers Make Confessions.
With the elder Anglican, now
twenty-nine, q confessed murderer
awaiting only jury to decide
whether death or life without hope
of pardon should be the penalty ex-
acted his brothers John and
George, the latter only sixteen
years old. confessed participants
with Bill, and Cecil Bennett and
Gordon Lawrence, other members
Of the gang In jail pending trial,
the wheels of Justice began to
move swiftly
One by one the remaining An
CLANS were disposed of, Franklin,
twenty, going to Atlanta for auto
mobile stealing; Ted, seventeen, to
Mansfield reformatory for a SIM
liar crime, the father In jail for
drunkenness and neglect charge,
and Ernest, the baby and the lone
mdle AuSidu us yet apparently uH-
stained by crime, ordered TO- the
children's home by the court in the
hope of saving him. Followed the
quick conviction Of Bill with a life
sentence with pardon barred; life
for John Anglican and Bennett, and
the ref0rmatory and later the peni-
Tertiary for George Anglican and
Lawrence, minors.
Through the maze Of crime and
intrigue surrounding the Angilans
there stalks the vision of two sis
tiers; who la reality are the chief
sufferers as the result of paternal
neglect and iiIiteracy of the noun
tains that sent their brothers into
the world potential criminals. The
Anglican sisters took the road d.
rectly opposite to that selected by
their brothers and today are mar
ried happily;
r1..s L. Naa.