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Show I flfen Who Figured in Kentucky Feud Which I " Resulted in Murder of J. B Marcum vMpi"fji vV77 vBl&K UcattyvlTle, Ky. The Jury In the Hargls-Callalian trial returned a verdict ver-dict of uuot guilty l "hort order iftcr ono of tho moat desperately , fought battles In a Kentucky court ' ' for years. Judge James Harris and Edward Callahan were charged with tho murder of J. B. Marcum. Curtis Jett, who was brought here from tho Frankfort penitentiary, testified testi-fied that bo killed Marcum. The verdict of not guilty Is the culmination of a long and bitter fight In courts In an attempt to convict James Hargls and Ed Callahan as chief consplrntors In ono of tho darkest dark-est crimes In Kentucky history. James Ii, Marcum was a mountain Hopubllcan lawyer of excellent stand Ing. Ho was engaged threo yours ago ns an attorney In tho contost against Hargls and Callahan, respectively Pemocratlc judgo and sheriff-elect, to oust them from their offices on an allegation of corrupt election. Much bitterness was aroused and frequent open ruptures occurred. Killed at Jackson. In Mny, 190.1, Marcum was shot to dentil from behind In tho Jackson ; , courthouse. Curtis Jett and Tom ,' Whlto worn convicted and sentenced to llfo Imprisonment for tho murder. It was charged that they wore tho !' tools of Callahan, Hargls and others. I Jett, after his' conviction, confessed that he shot Marcum and that his act was Inspired by Callahan and ! Hargls. On tho witness Btand, how ever, ho repudiated tho confession I nnd said ho alono was responsible. l.-i Tho acquittal followed largbly on this iL . repudiation. t A Jury of Cork county cltlzons re- 2JL turned a verdict for $8,000 damages It a year ago against Hargls on tho al- V legation that ho had caused Marcum ' f to bo killed. Tho suit was filed by S Mrs. Marcum. Hargls and Callahan y nro yot to bo tried In tho Lexington fL- court for tho killing of James Cock- J.O rcll under similar circumstances. I Ewlng a Star Witness. I B. J. Kwlng, who was standing In ,1 tho courthouse door talking with I J. D. Marcum when tho lattor was tVl murdered by Curtis Jett and "Tom" J Whlto, was tho star witness for tho M 1 commonwealth at Iho trlnf of Hargls H I and Callahan. Kwlng was a deputy -,B 1 sheriff under Callabnn nnd a closo H and trusted friend of Judgo Hnrgls. r Ho said Judgo Hargls was confidential ,i & with him and told him of many of bis troubles and ambitions. Ho said ii 4i Hargls had asked htm why he did not kill Marcum ono night when tho latter had remained at his house all night. "Next tlmo you get a chance take that fellow on a walk and return without Jlm." Kwlng said he understood under-stood Hargls to moan that ho wanted him to kill Marcum, but ho did not tako tho hint. Ho said Hargls, after tho murder of Marcum, had naked him to resign ita deputy 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 or Kwlng and was rebuked by Judgo Dorsey. Km lug said that he had Identified Jett uml admitted that ho was tho Hrst to revenl tho nuinu or tin- nsbiiBstn. Ho was also asked ir his hotel had not been burned to the ground shortly utter ho had mndo thu admissions which resulted In the arrest of Jett, and Whlto said that It had been burned and that ho had licon forced to leave Jackson Tor rear or nssaHslnatlon. Other witnesses who told or pnrts of tho plots to tnk'u tho llfo of Mar- ( cum were John T. Noble, who was a clork In tho Hargls store; Hczeklah Combs, K. I.. Noblo, N. II. Combs nnd othors. Tho widow or tho murdorod man, with tho boy whom tho rather had carried to nnd rrom his offlco with IiIb nrms around his neck to ward off tho bullets of tho assassins, who feared killing the child, was In tho courtroom. Hargls took a deep Interest In tho trial, whllo Callnhnn, as usual, was listless and gavo llttlo nttentlon to what was going on. Judgo Dorsoy made several rulings that grently ills-g appointed tho commonwealth. l Curtis Jett, tho self-conrcsaed as sassln or Marcum nnd Cockrlll, cam'o hero to testify rrom tho Frankfort penitentiary In tho chnrgo of prison guurds. Ho was brought hero to toll tho story of tho assassination or Marcum Mar-cum and of tho nlleged plots formed by Hargls and Cnlalhan to havo him murdored. |