Thursday, June 12, 1924
CIRCUIT COURT
Circuit Court is still in session, and, as this paper is printed, continuing the trial of Tiny McCoy, charged with the murder of his wife, his mother-in-law, Mrs. William Totten, and his brother-in-law, Hobert Totten, near Cass on April 6, 1924. In order to get a panel, it was necessary to summon 30 additional jurors. … It is expected that the trial will not be completed before Thursday evening.
In the case of State v William Dudley, convicted of first degree murder at the April term, 1923, for the murder of Bascom McFall, whose body was found on the river bank at Cass in April 1919, the supreme court set aside the verdict and granted a new trial on the grounds that the evidence was not sufficient. There being no new evidence, the State moved that the indictment against Dudley be nolied. A similar motion was made in the case against Sam Davis, who was indicted for the same offense.
On Wednesday morning, all the jurors were discharged except those trying the case against McCoy.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING
Captain S. B. Avis, former Congressman, and R. G. Altizer, an attorney, both of Charleston, were instantly killed by lightning at Charleston Sunday at noon. They had driven to shelter in a shed on a golf course. The shed was struck by lightning and both men instantly killed. A third man, R. G. Scott, escaped without injury.
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On Sunday afternoon the heavy wind and rain storm blew down and tore up the big barn below the house on the Uriah Hevener’s place near Greenbank. The silo attached was blown down last April. This barn was an immense structure, 60×100 feet. On almost every farm, apple trees were turned out of root. Many forest trees were blown down or broken off. In certain parts of the Hill country, the report is that perhaps a fifth of the trees are down.
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The extremely heavy rain on Monday afternoon raised the smaller streams about Marlinton to flood stage in an hour or less. Cummins creek at Huntersville was higher than it had been in years. Mrs. J. O. Carey had a cow drowned in it.
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Rain fell Sunday, June 8, which according to weather wisdom, forecasts eight wet Sundays in June and July.
LOCAL MENTION
Samuel Cline and Bassett Boggs, of Brownsburg neighborhood, were arrested last Saturday on charges of moonshining and are now in jail.
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Married at the Methodist Parsonage June 10, 1924, Page Amos Shinaberry and Leona Grace Burner.
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Born to Mr. and Mrs. Bedford Shinaberry, near Poage Lane, a son.
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Born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles K. Moore, near Bethel Church, a son.
DEATH
Z. S. Smith was notified from Richmond Monday of the death of his father, Zed S. Smith, which occurred in Lee Hospital of that city on June 7, 1924. His age was 87 years. Mr. Smith as a native of Berkeley county. At the beginning of the war, he volunteered in the Confederate army, and was assigned to the staff of General J. E. B. Stuart as a courier and served throughout the war. Much of his married life was spent at the Warm Springs of Bath County…