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II GUILTYiIAfter deliberating- lor less than one hour a Jury in court of common pleas returned a verdict of not guilty in the delinquency case in which Mrs. Velma Price, white, and Thomas Reed, colored, were the defendants. Probate Judge Graham presided at the trial.The chief prosecuting witness, James Gills, aged 20. testified that, his mother. Mrs. Price, neglected her children at* home and went to the home of Thomas Reed, a colored man, and there embraced him. The mother and the man were arrested on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of the minor children by Marshal Pangle of Roseville, as they are residents of Lrcnspot, nearby.Upon cross-examination by Attorney George, counsel for the accused couple, the youth admitted he told the officer of what he claimed he had seen because his mother threatened to send him to the boys’ industrial school at Lancaster, because she wanted him to wdrk and turn over his wages to her and help with the house chores. The defense set up the contention through the testimony of other witnesses that the son become angered at his mother for fear that he would be sent to the reformatory. The acquitted woman motherof eight children.Prosecutor Crossland, city, and A. Larues Parrett, Roseville, represented the state. The trial was attended by a large number of residents from the Roseville vicinity and owing to the erowd the hearing was transferred from the probate court room to the court of common nleas.tj•»22I
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Zanesville Times Recorder
Zanesville, Ohio, US
Sat, Aug 27, 1927
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