Show KICKED BOY TO DEATH THREATS OF LYNCHING I I- I INEZ IEZ EZ K Ky Nov XO 3 Pleasant SpreadIng Spreading Spreading Spread Spread- ing held for the killing f C f his four four- our our- year old son and his old tUten dau daughter ht r Is threatened with lynching Spreading Spreading's family consisted of oC a wife wICe three dau daughters and a u son With Ith his hit daughters daughter and bo boy the t father ther was waK herding sheep last Frida Friday The bo boy oy was unable to keep up with the others Th The Tho father ather placed him on a stone b beside a n spring telling him to walt wait until his return The rho bo boy becoming tired d of oC sitting still I till be begun un to p peel 1 the loose bark of oC a tree that overhung the spring Presently Pres Pres- enly the father returned and land noticing th the the bark bark on oil the ground asked the boy who had done It The Th boy replied d that ho he hadI had hac I I would rather have ha you ou dead than raise you ou to destroy everything on the th farm Is II the father lather Is eald said to have huv made anti and then It Is charged h ha I pi picked dud up upa upu 11 stone ton and struck the boy on th the heat head knocking him hint down Then I la is is alleged he hc kicked the tue pro prostrate trat bo boy In the head lend until he had Killed him und turning to his hiM daugh- daugh t tHI rn threatened them with a like fate If It th they y ever er told what had occurred Art Afterward rw Ull h he went home a and nd said the thellY toy Voy while chasing had run against a n. tree and killed himself Becoming alarmed he took his eldest est daughter and went to tn the mountains Ills His wife hired neighbors to bury the body hody of the child and und then went to the home homo of oC Judge E. E lIen Hensley le She told him of oC the death of oC her son lion and said she ehe suspected her hH husband hUBband who told her he was going coln Into the mountain woods to hunt squirrels and added that at al different times he had threat threatened ned to kill the whole family The Judge took her with her two younger daughters to his home and presented the cape case to th the grand jur Jury One of oC the little girls told the jur Jury that her father fathel had kicked the bo boy to death Shortly afterward a n. Sheriffs Sheriff's posse captured Spreading In the mountains but his eldest daughter was not with him Spreading Spreading's missing daughter turned up UI barefooted and ragged ed after acter her escape from her father In the mountains She was Immediately taken I before the grand Jury JUI and anti testified to how her father killed the tho bo boy I threatened her life liCe and that of or her I mother She testified that UI he would ha have brained them h heretofore but for fop forthe the Int Interference of oC neighbors Judge i has hag the Jail so strongly guarded that th thre re Is no longer any danger of or lynching Spreading will be given givena a speed speedy trial |