NEWS: Youths Fined for Firing Pistols, 1920, Bell Co. ----------------------------- Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson Date: 22 Oct 2003 ----------------------------- ************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************** 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.