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BRACKEN FARMER AND FOUR SONS ARE CHAR6ED WITH ARSONFrits Meyers and IiJn Four Sons Arrested In Connection With Burn-' Jng of Cooper Burn—Blood-Hounds Used.Augusta, Ky.f Jan. 12. — Fritz Meyers, 65 years old, farmer, lower end of Bracken county, and his four sons, Andy, 28, Omar, 21, Corliss, 20, and Hay, 18, were arrested Monday night on a joint charge of arson and assaultIr4 %and battery.On Christmas night a stock and feed barn belonging to Wilford E. Cooper was destroyed by fire, together with three cows, two horses, twenty-five tons of hay and farming implements.Captain Mullikin, Lexington, with bis bloodhounds, picked up a trail, the dogs going directly to the home of Fritz Meyers, and then to the home of his married son, Andy.The Meyers deny having anything to do with the burning of the barn but admit that they had a personal encounter with A1 Traylor, a relative of Cooper. The Meyers and Cooper families are neighbors and bad feeling was caused when Andy and Omar Meyers each brought suit agafnst John Taylor, a close relative of Mr. Cooper, for $10,000 alleging that Taylor slan-dered^them when he accused them of stealing a hoe.Mi*. Meyers and his four sons were placed in the county jail in default of $5,000 each, and will be given an examining trial Thursday. There is much feeling in the lover end of the county against the accused men, although there is no danger of mob violence now.
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Maysville Public Ledger
Maysville, Kentucky, US
Wed, Jan 12, 1921
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