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Worrell Gives Four MenCOUI ro36 Years In PenitentiaryPINEVILLE, Sept. 23—The combination of wine, whisky, and home brew resulted in a probable 36-year-long headache for four men in Wyoming Circuit Court.Each was on probation after having been sentenced on felonies in the June term of Wyoming court. Each ran afoul of the law after violating the terms of their probation by drinking intoxicating liquors.The longest headache—two to 20years_is being suffered by Truman Blankenship, of the Simon area, after he had been arrested as a member of the '•Goodman gang” in the spring. He had been indicted for burning a house owned by Tommy Goodman, the alleged leader of the gang, and occupied by the Blankenships- He had been sentenced to serve two to 20 years and then was released on probation He was arrested Monday after officers charged his probation violation to drinking wine. His probation was revoked and his sentence invoked,Glasco Smith, of Beckley, charged by Beckley police with$50,000 Damagedrunkenness and resisting arrest onSaturday night, heard Judge Rob- jert M. Worrell invoke his original I sentence of one to 10 years to the j state penitentiary today. He confessed during the June term of j Wyoming Circuit Court to the theft of copper wire from the Marianna | Smokeless Coal Co., and was placed on probation. Following his Saturday arrest in Beckley hist probation was revoked and his sen tence reiterated in Wyoming Court, today.Pies Carter, of the Simon area, who was identified as male attendant to Tommy Goodman at the time of his arrest with the Worn-ing County “gang/* will be joining j his patient at the penitentiary after he. too, forfeited his freedom with violating the terms of his probation. He had b^en sentenced to serve one to five years in the state penitentiary during the June term of court after he was indicted on a charge of operating a moonshine still. In court this week he admitted trading a bushel of potatoes for home brew, which he drank.EcAthedriarevoitheHa!CitVliMalavsaiestsai(da9-:thesC€fnthdlt;Bgio*laScesd.d1Suit Is SettledMULLENS, Sept. 23 — A $50,-000 la ■ suit was settled for $9,250 after being brought to trial in Wyoming County Circuit Court today.Henry Logsden, the plaintiff, wassuing Mrs. J. Edward Stewart, of Mullens, for personal damages he claimed he suffered in the collision of the Logsden and Stewart vehicles on State Route 10, near Bud, Oct. 24 of last year.Council for Logsden, a resident of the Herndon vicinity, offered medical testimony that the plaintiff’s skull and a rib were frac-of a moonHis patient, Goodman, who is a wheelchair cripple, already is at the penitentiary, where he was sentenced to serve 20 years.Bert Cline is to serve 12 months in the Wyoming County Jail after he was charged with violating his probation by drinking. He also had been arrested with the Goodman gang on charges of aiding and abetting the operation shine still.Returned to Raleigh Tuesday after being fore Judge Worrell to indicate why he had not complied with the terms of his probation. Turner W. Paris, told Judge Worrell he had been held in jail in Beckley and did not receive money from the sale of his truck. He had oeen ordered to pay $75 court, fees.a1CYcrrCounty Jail brought be-\11t
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Beckley Post Herald
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Thu, Sep 24, 1953
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