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Subject: [KYF] NEWS : Winnes Trial Ruling , 1921, Harlan Co.

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Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Jan. 26, 1921

Witnesses Say Winnes Followed Teacher Closely
Third Day Of Trail Starts With Prosecution Witnesses Still On Stand -- Judge
Makes Ruling In Case.
   Harlan, Jan. 26 -- The little courtroom was crowded today when court
convened on the third day of the trial of Dr. H.C. Winnes on trial charged
with the murder of Miss Lura Parson, Pine Mountain school teacher.
   The evidence given by prosecuting witnesses this morning furnished
nothing sensational and was along the line of the testimony given yesterday
and last night.  It is planned to hold night sessions until the case is
given to the jury.  The defense witnesses probably will be called either
tonight or tomorrow morning. Two days' time will be required, it is thought
to examine these witnesses.

Commonwealth Won Point
   The commonwealth won a point when Circuit Judge Hall instructed the
defense to confine itself to questions concerning specific convicts in
endeavoring to draw out witnesses with regard to the liberty given convicts
at the road camp near Dillon, not far from the scene of the murder.  The
defense will endeavor to bring out the movements of eight of the negro
prisoners.
   One witness John Day, said Winnes was only about a quarter of a mile
behind Miss Parsons as he followed her over Pine Mountain to the settlement
schools, he judged, because the veterinarian passed between fifteen and
thirty minutes after the teacher had gone over the trail past Day's cabin.
   Hamp Lewis, merchant and post master at Dillon, related the conversation
between Dr. Winnes and Miss Parsons at the store; how Dr. Winnes offered his
mule to the teacher and she refused, and how, when asked if he would give
her his mule if he overtook her on the trail, the doctor replied" "Not
unless she's crippled, I'll pass her on the fly."

Mentioned Teacher Several Times
   William Browning, of Pine Mountain; Miss Kate Petit, one of the
principals at the school, and two teachers, Misses Marguerite Butler of
Cincinnati, and Nell E. Mann of Knoxville, testified at the night session of
court that when Dr. Winnes arrived at the school he several times repeated
the story of Miss Parson preceding him up the mountain.
   Attorney A.F. Byrd, assistant prosecutor, pointed to the various
locations involved in the murder mystery, at last night's session, and the
jurors and spectators craned their necks to follow, while Dr. Winnes sat
with his family watching the proceedings as calmly as any in the courthouse.

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