| Show ASSASSIN GIVEN LIFE i I Justice After Many Delays 1 iI I i Overtakes the Murderer of Louis Loins May K Ky March tarch After lS r fighting fighting fight fight- In ing for COl months to escape being ent sent to the penitentiary nU lr to begin the sentence o of life Imprisonment whIch was walS Imposed on all him for the murder of r Louis Loul lays lays laS hurry I has hns Just been taken to Lo the Frankfort penitentiary from trout the BeaU Lee county Jail whore where he had been confined since last spring William an un uncle of lien Berry Is s already y yIn I in the penitentiary serving a 0 sentence o of two years ears for or tit lift same III murder U Id I'd l' l I John and John Swanson Swansea who bo sere aJ also o charged with complicity Jn In tho the mur roun- rounder murder der del were acquitted at theIr Inns Tits Thi Incarceration of or the two iwo S In time Iho closes one of or the most noted murder cr eases cases ever 11 tried In the Kentucky mountains and wl which Ich contains probably snore more unusual f features than all any similar crime ever el committed Louis louls Mays Ius lived hued n n the Lee Ice county couty mountain mountains near lIla the home of or the thc Flinch Flinch- ems with hs his widowed mother Th The were wen considered tl wealthy for that section of or the mountains mountain and anu Mays looked u a up to lo thorn them to lo such an extent thai that they were able to Jea lend lead him into doing man many things which he would woul not have done otherwise e e ui h c Crime Berry h. h tad had married Mary Mays Louis Louis' sister r. and Mays flays had become become be be- come ome engaged to lo m J Amy the alter sister sister sis sis- ter of oC Merry Br At t this Juncture one of or orthe the periodical feud reut troubles s broke out In ht Inthe Inthe the Lee Iee coun county t hills and the Flinchem and caul Louis Mays 5 ought fought hl on the same side Mays 1115 saw hl his law in press pres the trl trigger r of oC the gun sent a fl bullet through h one of oC the ih-e th opposing side wh who was Killed Louis Mavs was the thc oi onh v man who saw sate the killing and was th the only witness against Berry For rol months the J kept ept on the lh good side Hide of young youn Mays Ua 8 to l' l ltd keep p him from Crom testifying against Berr Berry but hut out one day a l quarrel rose hose arose and Mays fas declared his intention of of oC the time murder A tiny day or 01 two later he lie disappeared and anil several eral months later his dead body was found b by dc Josic Townsend as she passed through h the mountain fastnesses CS looking hooking for Cor a 0 sheep which had strayed from Crom h hi h. r I fathers father's flock Sh She rave cave the alarm and certain words dropped by the s were remembered d d and anu all nil the family tor to to together gether wi with John Swan Swanson on were wrested arrested charged cd with lIh the tho murder Life Term feral Out Kerry Berry J confessed Implicating IIII all the others and stated staled that John Swanson had done Lone the actual killing At Atthe Atthe Atthe the trials however ft rt was shown that thai 1 Swan Swanson on and antI John w were w rc re nol not guilty 0 and JIll they were acquitted while William W 63 years ears old was sentenced sen- sen o to the penitentiary for two years yearn and anti nen Berry a aged 3 3 30 was l to bv lie the tho actual murderer ere I nn and sent to lo the for ninety nine years cars JJ lie lied had since Ince his cis trial last lily July IIII been trying to get a reversal sal of or the case In the Court I of or ilp appeal The rime ca case e has attracted attention all nil over 1 the country on account of or th the lie unusual phases of the matter mailer Berry was shown hown to have cut the throat of or his law brother Louts Louis Mays Ia and ami thrown Ills body over O a precipice because Mays would not perjure himself and save him hini Berry from rom belli being tried for 01 murder murLer |
