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Roy BELCHER, about thirty years old, charged with the murder of Leonard
MCGLOTHLIN at Cedar Bluff on November 5, 1921, was arrested in Danville, Ky., the first of this week by Sheriff W. Logan
WOOD, of Boyle County, in which Danville is located, and was brought here to jail Tuesday night,
BELCHER was arrested about three o'clock in the morning, and when taken in charge by the officers denied that his name was
BELCHER, but claimed that it was Wilson. He was said to have been enroute to his father's home in Danville when surprised by the officers. Sheriff
WOOD stated that it had been known for sometime that BELCHER was in the Kentucky city, the Sheriff having been on the look out for him for several weeks. He communicated with the Tazewell authorities and was informed that a reward of $250 had been offered for his arrest and delivery to the Sheriff of Tazewell. Sheriff
WOOD redoubled his efforts and with the aid of deputies succeeding in arresting
BELCHER. Little is known here of the murder for which BELCHER will have to answer to a Tazewell jury. It is said that
MCGLOTHLIN, who married BELCHER'S sister, had on several occasions ordered
BELCHER from his house at Cedar Bluff, and that on the day of the murder BELCHER went to the
MCGLOTHLIN home and was ordered from the house again, whereupon he drew his gun and shot
MCGLOTHLIN dead, and then escaped, spending the intervening time, it is said, in Texas and other western states. The $250 reward was deposited in a bank here by Mrs. Martha WRAY, a sister of the dead man, and was paid to Sheriff
WOOD Wednesday morning.
Mr. Andrew D. WITTEN, Martinsville, in a private letter states that his wife had a fall on Christmas Eve, which resulted in a broken hip. He says: Dear Mr.
LESLIE - I have a great many relatives in Tazewell County and the adjacent towns, and I am sure that a great many of them will be interested in knowing that Mrs.
WITTEN and I spent the Christmas holidays with her son and his family in Cincinnati, Ohio. On
Christmas Eve we had decorated a Christmas tree and Mrs. WITTEN went in the back part of the house for something, slipped and fell and broke her hip. On
Christmas day we put her in the hospital where she has been since, and will doubtless be there three or four weeks longer. She is in a plastered cast, but is getting along splendidly. She is at Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, and will be very much pleased to hear from anyone who desires to write to her. Yours very truly, A.D.
WITTEN.
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