Clark County WA Archives News.....Silence Is Not Golden July 4, 1908
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LaCamas Post July 4, 1908
Young Man's Silence Nearly Lands Him In Prison
Eugene Rhodes,the young man arrested Friday of last week was arraigned 
Saturday on a charge of carrying concealed weapons.He pleaded guilty and was 
fined $20 and given a jail sentence of thirty days.The jail sentence was 
imposed that authorities might have time to investigate his actions.For two 
months he had been seen by people living just east of the city limits,and had 
been observed going to and from the woods at about the same time every day.The 
authorities had been notified a number of times and in view of recent crimes 
here Rhodes was taken into custody.He refused to talk and this led to further 
the suspicion that all was not right.
Sunday morning,however,two of Rhode's sisters came from Portland,and explained 
to the Judge what the prisoner had refused to do,that he came here to take 
care of his mother,who has been sick,and that his trips to the woods were 
merely for recreation,he being very eccentric,and preferring his own 
company.The Judge was satisfied with the explanation and the sentence was 
suspended and the fine remitted.

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