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Pannell, Paul

Rural Carrier In Trouble
Greenville Boy Arrested by U.S. Marshal.
Accused of withholding letters and converting money to his own use entrusted to him.

Paul Pannell, of Greenville, Ky., has been held to the grand jury of the next term of the Federal court in Owensboro, on the charge of tampering with the United States mails. Pannell was a carrier on rural route No. 1, out of Greenville. There are six counts in the charge made against him.

On September 9, 1911, he is accused of taking from the mails a letter addressed to Mrs. Monroe Vincent, Route 1, Greenville, Ky.

On September 28, 1911, it is charged that he withheld from the mails a letter and post card addressed P.M. of Russellville, Ky., Logan county.

On August 30, 1911, it is alleged that he converted to his own use the sum of $8 which came into his hands from Mrs. Monroe Vincent to be used in obtaining a postal money order for Crofts and Reed company of Chicago.

On May 21, 1912, it is charged that he converted to his own use $10 which came into his hands from Mrs. N.B. Board to obtain a postoffice money order for the Pure Food company of Cincinnati.

On March 19, 1912, it is alleged that he converted to his own use $2.43, which he received from Mrs. Hattie Stovall to obtain a postoffice money order for the John M. Smith Company of Chicago.

On November 27, 1911, it is alleged that he converted to his own use $1.33 which he received from Mrs. Vannie Quisenbury to be used in purchasing a postoffice money order for Seigel, Cooper and Company of Chicago.

Pannell is a young man 19 years old, and is the son fo Tom Pannell of Greenville, a prominent business man and politician. Owing to his excellent family connections the charges against him came as a great surprise to his many friends.

Young Pannell was recently married to a popular young girl of Greenville, the daughter of the pastor of the leading church of that city.

He desired that his arrest be kept secret from his wife, and Deputy United States Marshall Nichols of Owensboro, who made the arrest, did not go with him to his home, but sent along with Pannell a mutual friend who agreed to be responsible for the delivery of the young man to the officer for examining trail at Hopkinsville. This friend staid with Pannell at the latter's home the night after his arrest, and returned him to Officer Nichols next morning. Pannell told his wife he was going to Hopkinsville on a business trip. He was taken before United States Commissioner Clarke at Hopkinsville by Officer Nichols. He waived examination and was held to the grand jury under a bond of $500.

The investigation was made by Postoffice Inspector Cueman, who swore out the warrant for Pannell's arrest. - Owensboro Inquirer.

Paradise Ferry

Paradise Ferry Stops.
Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 16 - The State Highway Department reported today that a private ferry over Green River on Ky. 176 had been abandoned. The river separates Muhlenberg and Ohio Counties. Discontinuance of the ferry, known as Paradise Ferry, leaves no means of getting across on Ky. 176.

Patsy

16-year-old goose dies. Patsy, a goose 16 years and 7 months old, died November 19 at the home of her owner, Mrs. Anderson Byers on North Fifth street, city. Patsy was hatched by a hen and was raised by the Byers family.

Payne, Lyle

Company won't rehire miner in safety case.

Central City, Ky. - The Amax Corp. has refused to rehire the chairman of a United Mine Workers safety committee who was dismissed for balking at operating a piece of equipment he claimed was unsafe.

After a four-hour hearing at the mine Friday night, the company rejected an appeal by Lyle Payne of Central City to be reinstated as an equipment operator at Ayrgem surface mine, where he has been the union's safety chairman for two years.

The hearing was conducted by the company as required by the terms of its contract with the union.

Under the contract, an arbiter - probably an attorney from the area - will hear both sides of the dispute and either uphold the dimissal or order the firm to rehire Payne.

In an industry where workers have only recently begun pressing for safer conditions, Payne had a reputation for heading an unusually active and effective safety program, a number of other area safety chairmen said.

At one point, safety committee members from 12 other mines offered to pull men from their respective mines to picket the Ayrgem mine in an attempt to force the company to rehire Payne.

Payne has declined the offer until he has exhausted his appeal rights under the union contract and in the courts.

Payne alleges he refused to operate the equipment, known as an end loader, because it had a faulty hydraulic system which made it difficult to steer.

The company, however, has denied Payne raised the safety issue when he refused to follow a supervisor's order to drive the machine.

Meanwhile, Payne, 47, and the father of six children, has accused the area UMW leadership of holding back full support for him because he has been active in the Miners for Democracy movement, which is seeking to oust UMW president Tony Boyle.

Most of the leaders of the union's Distict 23, headquartered at Madisonville, are solidly in the Boyle camp.

A spokesman for the District 23 leadership said yesterday that Payne has been given the union's “best possible support for his case.”

Perry, Tom

Ohio man found unconscious in local I.C. yards. Shoes, sox and $34.00 taken from man on freight between Louisville and city

Tom Perry, 21 years old, was found unconscious in an empty box car in the Illinois Central railroad years about 3:20 o'clock last Sunday morning. The box car was brought to Central City on train No. 171. His head was bruised, he having been knocked in the head.

After Perry had received first aid at the Switchmans' Room, he was removed to the Greenville hospital, where he regained consciousness shortly before noon Sunday.

John Berry, local yardmaster, said that Perry was on his way from Nelsonville, Ohio, to Milburn, Ky. Perry told Mr. Berry that he got into the box car at Louisville, which was the last thing he remembered. A new pair of shoes, Perry said, together with his sox, were taken from his feet. Perry told Mr. Berry that he had $34.00 at the time he boarded the freight, which was also missing.

Petrified Stump

Petrified stump is found in city. Have you been out to see the large petrified stump between Park Street and the South Carrollton highway. Crews of men recently working opening up a new street at this location found the stump. It is a perfect stump found beneath eight or ten feet of soil and rock. Where did the stump come from? Perhaps it has been there for hundreds of years, but how could it be so deep beneath the rock. The stump is what is left of a large tree. The tree was not sawed down, but cut with some kind of a blunt instrument. This is a very unusual curiosity and is worth seeing. It is hoped that the stump will be handled with care and should be placed where all can see it.

Peveler, Harry

Harry Peveler at Owensboro. Central City trainer accepts job of teaching Owensboro boys ring tactics

Harry Peveler, Central City, was added Monday to the staff of instructors by the Owensboro Recreation Corporation.

Each day the number of Owensboro boys reporting for work-outs and training has increased. This has necessitated more instruction work and it was decided to supplement the coaching and teaching of Jimmy Davis with that of Peveler, who is the manager and trainer of Clarence Batsel, Central City fighter. Peveler has also developed Kenneth Embry, Fid Snead and Leroy Mathis, all of whom have excellent showings in the Owensboro ring.

Pevler, George

Shooting in Muhlenberg. Central City, Ky., Feb. 16 - George Pevler, a single man, was shot and fatally wounded by George Spradley, a married man with wife and six children. Spradley, who lives at Gishton, seven miles west of Central City, was building a line fence and Pevler told him he was trespassing on his land. To this Spradley objected. The next day Spradley continued the erection of the fence, when Pevler came from his house, 200 yards distant. As he approached the line fence Spradley raised his gun and fired 53 shots into the breast of Pevler. Pevler fell without speaking and was carried to the home of his mother, where he resided. Spradley will be arrested and perhaps taken to jail in another county, as feeling runs high against him.

Pierce

Captain Pierce of Drakesboro has just returned from Chicago, where he has been in the interest of the Black Diamond Coal Co. He contracted for additional electrical mining machinery for their plant.

Pittman Bros., 1910

Pittman Bros. new meat shop, near the Baptist church, is ready for business. Give them your orders.

Pyle, Harry

Browder Man told to Leave Kentucky for Selling Whiskey

Greenville, Ky. - Harry “Buddy” Pyle, 37, Browder, was fined $20 Monday in Muhlenberg Quarterly Court and ordered to leave the state by Feb. 16 after pleading guilty to a charge of possessing whiskey for sale in dry territory. He was also given a 30-day jail sentence, suspended.

Pyle was arrested Saturday night by Sheriff Phillip Stone and Deputy Sheriff Arthur Tooley. Tooley said Pyle kept a quantity of half pints in a house trailer near his filling station at Browder, offering to sell the liquor to his gasoline customers.

Tooley said a small quantity of liquor was found in the trailer when the arrest was made. He said a man reported having purchased 11 half pints at the service station before sales ceased.

Updated April 6, 2024.

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