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Show mm, It W jH 1 1 Men Who Figured in Kentucky Feud Which I Resulted in Murder of J. B. Marcum iUcattyvllle, Ky. Ttiu Jury lu the Hnrgls-Cullahan trial returned a verdict ver-dict of nuot guilty In short order ftcr one of tho moat desperately fought battles In a Kentucky court for years. Judge James Hargls and Kdward Callahan wero charged with tho murder of J. B. Marcum. Curtis Jett, who was brought here from tho Frankfort penitentiary, tcstl-j. tcstl-j. fled that ho killed Marcum. U The verdict of not guilty Is tho culmination of a long and hitter flght In courts In an attempt to convict James Hargls and Bd Callahan as chief conspirators In one of tho darkest dark-est crimes in Kentucky history. James B. Marcum was a mountain Republican lawyer of excellent standing. stand-ing. Ho was enguged three years ago as nn attorney In tho contest against Hargls and Callahan, respectively Democratic Judge and sheriff-elect, to oust them from their olllcea on nn allegation of corrupt election. Much bitterness was aroused and frequent open ruptures occurred. Killed at Jackson. In May, 1903, Marcum wub shot to death from behind In tho Jackson courthouse. Curtis Jett nnd Tom I White) wero convicted and sentenced to llfo Imprisonment for tho murder. I It wub charged that they woro tho i tools of Callahan, Hargls and others, Jott, after his conviction, confessed ' that ho shot Marcum and that his net was Inspired by Callahan and Hargls. On the witness stand, however, how-ever, ho repudiated tho confession nn'd said ho nlono was responsible. rrr'Vfifvjuittal followed largely on this k repudiation,. M A Jury of lLirk county citizens ro- m turned n vordiyt for $8,000 damages fl u year ago against Hargls on tho nl- mm legation that ho had caused Marcum H to bo killed. Tho suit was filed by JH Mrs. Marcum. Hargls mid Callahan H uro yet to bo tried in tho Lexington H court for tho killing of James Cock- jM roll under similar circumstances. mH Ewlng a Star Witness. jHj D, J. Kwing, who was standing In mw tho courthouso door talking with J, 11. Marcum when tho latter wns murdered by Curtis Jett nnd "Tom" White, was tho star witness for tho commonwealth at tho trial of Hargls and Callahan, Kwing was a doputy nhorlff under Callahan and n closo nnd trusted friend of Judgo Hargls. Ho said Judgo Hargls was confidential with him and told him of many of tils troublos and ambitions. Ho said Crotatk (Tot Hargls had asked him why ho did not kill Marcum ono night when tho latter had remained at his houso all night. "Noxt tlmo you get n chnnco tako that follow on a walk nnd roturn without him." Kwing said ho understood under-stood Hargls to mean that he wanted him to kill Marcum, but ho did not tnko tho hint. Ho said Hargls, after tho murder of Marcum, had asked him to resign ns doputy sheriff, so that ho could sit on a Jury that might try tho men accused of his murder. Attorney Young, for tho prosecution, prosecu-tion, attempted to make light of Kwing and was rebuked by Judgo Dorsey. Kwing said that ho had Identified Jett and admitted hot ho was tho first to reveal the niimo of tho ussassln. Ho was also asked if his hotel had not been burned to the ground shortly uf tor ho hud made the admissions which resulted In the nrrcst of Jett, and White said thnt It had been burned nnd that ho had been forced to'leavo Jnckaou for fenr of assassination. Other witnesses who told of parts of tho plots to tako the llfo of Marcum Mar-cum wero John T. Noblo, who wns a clerk In the Hargls store; Hozckluh Combs, K. I. Noble, N. II. Combs, and others. The widow of tho murdered man, with tho boy whom the fnthor had carried to and from his offlco with his arms around his neck to ward off the bullets of tho assassins, who feared killing the child, wns in tho courtroom. Hnrgls took a deep Interest In tho trial, whllo Callahan, as usual, was listless nnd gavo llttlo attention to what wna going on. Judgo Dorsey made soveral rulings thnt greatly disappointed dis-appointed tho commonwealth. Curtis Jett, tho Bolf-confeBsed assassin as-sassin of Marcum nnd Cockrlll, enrao here to testify from the Frnnkfort penltcntlnry In the chnrgo of prison guards. Ho was brought hero to tell tho story of tho assassination of Marcum Mar-cum nnd of tho nlleged plots formed by Hargls and Calalhan to hnvo him murdorod. |