| Transcribed by Norma Knotts Shaffer from microfilm
of the Calhoun Chronicle dated 4/25/1911.
The Chronicle believes that in justice to the boys whose names appear
this week in the list of indictments, Harley and Herbert Ferrell and Golden
Stalnaker, that an explanation should be made, so that the public may not
get an unfortunate opinion of the boys. The fact is that the complaining
witness, John Fink, is a half-witted ignoramus whose highest ambition has
been to indict someone, that he might appear as a witness and draw his
pay as such, and there has never been a grand jury since he came to the
county but what he was before it attempting to indict someone, but this
is the first time that any jury has paid attention to his tales.
And he has on several occasions attempted to have boys arrested before
justices, and on at least one occasion had a young man arrested, but at
the trial his evidence was so different from the complaint that the case
was promptly dismissed at Fink's cost. In this indictment the charge
was throwing stones at the house in which Fink lived and although we do
not know these employees well enough to justify us in the assertion that
not one of them would do anything to harm a hair of this poor imbecile's
head, and we believe that the tale he told the grand jury is greatly at
variance with facts in the case. |
