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Sheriff Resigned and Was ArrestedBy His Deputy.Hazard, Ky., Feb. 16. — Monday morning Sheriff E. H. Cornett handed his resignation to County Judge Ev-ersole, and it is alleged fled to escape arrest by bondsmen for the embezzle* ment of $3,500.Deputy Sheriff Combs is now on hi3 way back to Hazard with Cornett in his custody.Cornett’s alleged shortage followed the failure to obtain his quietus from the state auditor in December. His bondsmen, however, immediately came to Cornett’s rescue and put up the $2,700 necessary to get his quietus, which he secured just in the nick of time to execute his bond, as the law prescribes that sheriff must have obtained his quietus and produced it in open court on the first Monday in January* The bondsmen say they will prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law.
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Owingsville Outlook
Owingsville, Kentucky, US
Thu, Feb 23, 1905
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