Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1918 — KENTUCKY LAWYER WAS HERE [ARTICLE]

KENTUCKY LAWYER WAS HERE

Yesterday In Interests of Case Against Newton County Prisoner J. A. Edge, an attorney from Lexington,, Kentucky, who was on his way to Chicago on business, stopped off here yesterday at the request of some charitable people off his city to see what he could do to assist Charles Bohannan, the crippled young man who had been in jail here, as a prisoner of Newton county, on the charge off grand larceny and whose trial was set for yesterday in the Newton circuit court.

According to Mr. Edge the boy is a foundling and had grown up on the streets of Lexington; he is badly crippled, is tubercular and a cigarette fiend. He is really not a criminal at heart, but he became an associate of a woman of bad repute who came up to Newton county and went to work for James Hires of west of Fair Oaks. After a week at Hires the woman wrote Bohannan to come up and they would pluck iHires. He came up amd they stole an automobile and some money and went to South Chicago, where the auto was left and the other swag was divided up. The woman went back to Lexington tout the boy was arrested. The woman was also arrested at Lexington in connection with the thefts tout was turned lhose on a bond for a nominal sum, it is said, and her whereabouts are now unknown.