Grand Jury Adjourns
Without Indicitng Night Riders

When the grand jury adjourned on last Saturday, they were granted further time by the Court to consider the night-riding cases which had been before them for two or three days.  The entire county was in a state of expectancy, and a feeling of relief did not come until Monday afternoon when they filed into the Courtroom and announced their labors had ended.  The only indictments returned were four against Owen O'Banion for selling pooled tobacco, one against Arthur Lawson for stealing chickens, and one against E. C. Hughes for forgery.

Commonwealth's Attorney F. C. Greene at once filed a motion asking that a new grand jury be impaneled to further consider the night riding cases.  He stated that he had enough evidence to convict several men.  It seems, however, that the present jury thought otherwise, as they refused, on the evidence submitted, to bring in indictments.

We are informed that the strongest proof submitted to the grand jury was the testimony of a young man who at first stated that he thought he recognized several men in the crowd the night the raiders visited New Liberty.  He afterwards made this statement more specific, but after weighing all the testimony, the jury thought the charge too serious to return indictments upon proof that was not more positive.

From the Owenton News Herald of July 2, 1908