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Skipped,Willard Young,the man who swore at .Nashvilleilast week that he had no money to pay his board bill while attending the^Fix trial, has left the county to avoid an arrest for perjury. After he made the affidavit be was assiguedfcquarlers at the residence of Sheriff Taggart. Everything went along smoothly for a few days, and the young man was chuckling over his sharp practice in getting a week or two board at theexpeuse of Bar-tholomew county, when it became noised around that he hud shown considerable money.One mormug he got up and left his pocket book under the pillow. It was examined and over $20 found in it. When Judge Keyes heard of the sharp practice of Young lie called him;before him and gave him a lecture that he will not forget until his pompadoured red hair turns gray. He was told to settle his bill and take the consequences of swearing to an untrutii. He paid his board bill out of a ten dollar bill and got out of the town toga vohl an arrest on an Indictment by-the grand jury as soon as possible.22He came over here with Will Farley and'pnid his hack faro out of a ten dollar bill. He then departed on a fjtrain for Louisville,, where he said he had a position in a shoe house.JJHeJleft in such haste that a pnrtion of his wardrobe remained in the caarrlage of Mr. Farley. Willard Young left under a cloud of suspicion, as well as a well defined case of perjury against him.
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Columbus Herald
Columbus, Indiana, US
Fri, Apr 23, 1886
Page 6
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