From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 6:04 PM
To: KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: [KYF] NEWS: Wiley Smith Murder, 1921, Bell & Whitley Co.

Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson
  <http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00005.html#0001143>

Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Feb. 14, 1921
Lockhart Given Life For Murder of Smith
   George Lockhart, who jointly with Richard Morgan was indicted in the
Whitley Circuit Court for the murder of Wiley Smith, a Middlesboro young
man, but who resided at Corbin at the time he was murdered was given a life
term in the penitentiary Saturday morning at Williamsburg, where the court
is in session.  Morgan will be tried at the next session of the court, which
will be held at Williamsburg.
   Throughout the deliberations, it was learned today, ten of the jury held
out for the death penalty, because they were convinced that the motive for
the murder was robbery.
   The murdered man was the son of Noah Smith of Elya, and a cousin of
Harry, Eugene and William Smith of Middlesboro.

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