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1.SI00.000Damages Asked for Death ofJames B. Marcum.CONSPIRACY CHARGED IN SUIT.James and Alex Harris, Edward Callahai and Lawyer french, Defendants.Winchester, Ky., Feb. 27.—^ j James Hargis, Alex Hargis and “, Edward Callahan, of Jackson, e Breathitt county, and B. Fulton — French, of Winchester, are made r* | defendants in a civil action filedItoday by Mrs. Abrelia Marcum, of Jackson, to recover $100,000 damages for the death of James B. Marcum, murdered in the door of the Jackson courthouse May 5, 1903, and for whose murder Curtis Jett, nephew of James and Alex Hargis, and Thomas White were sentenced to life imprisonment at their second trial at Cynthiana last August. The petition states that the defendants entered into a conspiracy with Curtis Jett and Thomas White to murder James B. Marcum and that he was murdered by Jett and White in pursuance of such conspiracy. A. F. Byrd, who prosecuted Jett and White,is one of the attorneys representing Mrs. Marcum.The suit has been expected several months, as it was known that Mrs. Marcum and her friends and attorneys were busy getting up evidence which they believed would be valuable in the action, but the fact that * B. Fulton. French is made one of the defendants has created a sensation, as French, although a warm friend of the Hargis brothers, jand an attorney in the JettV White case, has never been mention with the alleged plot to as-Isassinate Marcum.ad
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Earlington Bee
Earlington, Kentucky, US
Thu, Mar 03, 1904
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