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+! IiJAIL ALMOST FAMILY INSTITUTIONEitfht Pairs of Brothers in Local Hostlcry, Mingoand Matherly Farley on MostSerious Chancesi+Ilu* more than NO prisoners eon lined in flu* Raleigh county jail, then are eight pairs lt;T brothers, a situ I alion which is almost without a parallel in the histor of the localprison,Charges against these brothers,range from I ie most serious, thatof murder down to violations ofthe liquor law.j Perhaps the most notorious pair is made up of Mingo and Matherlx Karley, tin* former having been re-i entlx returned after a speetaeularbreakaway which involved a deslt; cut from the third floor In a ropefashioned, so Mingo saxs. from one ' suit lt;f underwear and a blanket. Matherly is detained at the local jail I pending the result of an appeal for• new trial.• . . • • . ’In lie lt;\ erit fho a^fiil in lt;I« i m * * I he will jfo I Maundsville to hej^inlii ti*11#* si nI nee im-p * I follow in# his c*cn vie 1 i 11 1'.* • r ider. His Im'uHh , . Mil! h i no! \« • sifKwl it in! on the smitecharge, hit! is shttetl to have a hear-j invi at (he mining session of thecriminal court.In connection with MatherlvKarlev, an amusing incident was rc-jpoibd from Hie count jad recentlyin which Kmmel Jones tigured. Join s is the man who recently mad • bisescape from a tills in which he wasfheing taken to Moumisvillc along with other prisoners. Me was eon vieted for robbing a store, and received a 10-vear stretch. Hut to gelI to tlit* incident —: •Following Farley's trial and bis* *subsequent sentence to life imprison inent, he was returned to jail to a-wait transportation to Moumisvillc.)ne dav w hen s cue one called at the jail lo see him, Matherlx was cn! down to the eat bole to speakx\ ' bis acquaint m, e I millet tones,from bis place f confinement on 'In* loxxer floor, heard Karlov's ruteli poumliu ; n tli • slairxxav. loncs bad not In ai d d first band tin* iiiteumc of Kai lex s trial. !‘ Ilex, Matherlx, he called, “howumoh'd x on gid |• 1 ,I guess it's lie K.imncl. Karlexreplied,“Well, said I tin i |, “did xon gel tin- judge to knock off for tin* time j xou’ve spent’ in nil ixv,tiling trial?What’s that I o lex asked xxitli you've speltt in j.iil awaiting trial?Non ought to s ibe judge and! gel bim to tak he time oft that | xou've spent ben waiting to be I tried. Jones s.i I quite seriously.Matherlx xvas dl altentiou, andstarted around the slams to speakto l .mmel. I ‘till x\ ox around thelight sloxx i\ brokt on bim.O hell. ie dd. and went on bark to speak to the visitor xxitli I nmud Jones’ sun kcr falling oil his ears.I lie brothers were not all arrested in pairs, and il w as some time he 1foie jail oflicials realized that in* •#Ilnur custody were eight sets ofbrothers.Resides the larlexs, the brothers! include (.rant and (dlhert lilcxins,lull and .less Wax lie, (colored) l.axvrenee and (.biiinore Ward, (colored). Hill and llobart Snvder, V, w ard and (iordon Dixon, Mertie and Marvin ('lax, and I.ugene and lt;eppel Cox.1IIlt;1atitItehlt\nItlIrlt;1I
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Beckley Sunday Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Sun, Mar 17, 1929
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