From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 6:55 PM
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Subject: [KYF] NEWS: Youths Fined for Firing Pistols, 1920, Bell Co.

Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson
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Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY - Dec. 17, 1920
Youths Fined $50 For Firing Pistols In Binghamtown
   William Parton, Jr. and William Nicholson, two youths, were arrested this
morning and each fined $50 and cost in Magistrate Kearn's court.
   The young men celebrated last night in Binghamtown by firing their
pistols along the government road between here and Excelsior.
   This morning Officers Ball, Yeary and DeBask, caring not a rap for
disturbing the sleepy, awoke the boys early and carried them before Squire
Kearns, who soon told the prisoners the amount of their fines, $50 each "and
the trimmings."
   The fine assessed on the Parton boy was paid.  But the Nicholson boy did
not have the money to fare himself so well, and he had to go to jail.

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