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VOLUME 40, NO. 10FARLEYA STRUGGLEARREST OF BOTH MEN -AND GIRL MADE SATURDAY NEARWINDING GULF.IICAPTIVE”Left Home With Maitland Earley Because Parents Mistreated Her, She Says—Desertion from Army Are the Only Direct Charges Against Either of Farleys.Surprised in the woods on the head of Winding Gulf creek by Deputies John Kaylor, E. P. Lilly, and J. R. Gautier, members of a sheriff’sposse searching for them, Maitland and Mandeville Farley, who had been worrying the officers of three counties for many weeks, surrendered early Saturday morning without a struggle. Lillian Abshire, the girl alleged to have been abductedby Maitland Farlev some weeks* *ago, but who confesses that she was with him of her own free will, was taken with the two men. Mandeville Farley’s wife was also in the party, but was not placed under arrest.The scene of their capture, if it may he so called, for the men, though armed with shot guns, made no resistence whatever, was a well-nigh inaccessible forest glen on a hill about four miles from the town of Winding Gulf.The trio of captives was brought to Becklev, arriving here SaturdaytgF- W » Fnoon in custody of the sheriff’s party, and placed in jail. On Sunday Deputy Sheriff Hall and Probation Officer Malcoin, of Mercer county, came oyer and conveyed Maitland Farley and the girl to Princeton where they were locked in the Mercer county jail.The Abshire girl was 10 years old in May. * Her admission that shewas with Farley of her own free »vid, relieves him of anv charge of abduction. Both of the Farley brothers have been accused ofmoonhsining, but there is no evidence to support the charge. Therefore the only charges that can be lodged against the men are one oT desertion from the army by Maitland Farley, and failure to report for military service by Mandeville Farlev.
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Raleigh Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Thu, Aug 14, 1919
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