RELEASED

"Manny" Long Charged vith Killing His Father

VINDICATED IN A PRELIMINARY HEARING BEFORE SQUIRE PRINTIS

The Mother Testifes That the Death of Her Husband Was Due to Accident.

Thursday morning of last week the preliminary hearing of Emanuel Long, the 14-year old son of Miller Long, who was charged with deliberately stabbing his father, was held in the court room before 'Squire Printis, who discharged the prisoner according to his understanding and judgment of evidence adduced.

Prosecutor Ragan acted in his capacity, while W. W. Campbell defended the lad.

Resume of the Evidence.

The first witness called was Dr. Burson, of Grellton, who attended the injured man up to Satarday afternoon. He found Mr. Miller on the floor breathing with difficulty, and upon examination found a wound in the left side about the width and depth of a common barlow knife blade. He probed and found the incision to extend downward and backward. His treatment was to apply anticeptic lotions and give stimulants, chiefly whisky. On beind shown an iron handled jackknife, be identified it as the one shown bim on the day of the alleged tragedy. His treatment up to Saturday did not vary materially, when, the patient growing steadily worse, he summoned Dr. Harrison for consultation. Together they operated and extracted fully two quarts of foul smelling puss; etc. He claimed the patient got some better after the operation. Mr. Campbell examined Dr. Curson for neariy an hour, among other important facts eliciting that he was a graduate of the Eclectic Medical college of Cincinnati and had only practiced a year. He thought that the knife was held by the boy in the grasp generally used while whittling.

Dr. Harrison was the second witness. His examination was lengthy and involved many medical terms. The substance and most important, however, was that he should have extracted the puss on the second day, that blood poisoning had caused the man's death, and that said disease dated its inception from the time the knife entered the body, inasmach as the blade had germs of disease, He also was of the opinion that the knife was clasped in the position of whittling.

Lydia Long, wife of the dead man and mother of the accused boy, testified next, and told her story in brief as follows:

The boy and two little sisters after dinner had quarreled, the girls having teased "Manny" while he was making a cross-gun. Shortly afterward she heard the boy crying, stepping to the door saw her husband whipping him with a stick. She produced the "stick," which was an ash club two feet long and three-quarters of an inch square. She called to the father to stop, but, he did not seem to hear her and continued belaboring the boy, who wore nothing but a thin shirt and pants. While she was still calling, "Manny'' grabbed his father, who is six fect tall, around the waist with hands and almost instautly the whipping ceased. The father dropped the stick and calling, said: "Come here, Lydia, and see what "Manny' has done." Going into the yard, her husband pointed to his left side, where a think stream of blood could be distinguished coming from his side. "Why, Manny, what have you done!" was the mother's ejaculation. The boy began to cry and said: 'Mother, I did not know I did it," and going up to his father lovingly embraced him and led him into the house.

While on the way to the house the wounded man said he did not feel the cut until he noticed the blood, or words to that effect. He immediately went to bed, while "Manny" hastened for the McClure doctor, who was not at home, and upon returning with such intelligence, Dr. Burson was sent for. All through his sickness Mr. Long said nothing regarding the affair, being in a comatose state most of the time.

On examination she said that relations between father and son were lovable and all that they should be; and that they seldom had any difference.

Such was the mother's testimony in brief, and on which, no doubt, the boy was released. In the afternoon Mabel, one of the little sisters, 11 years old, was called, but owing to having been afflicted with dropsy on the brain she was not in conditton to tell much of the said affair.

'Squire Weaks and W. E. Good, two neighbors, were also examined, but their testimony was of little value.

Prosecutor Ragan led off with the argument. While in the middle of his speech the mother became hysterical to such an extent that she had to be removed.

W. W. Campbell followed, and laid the case before the court in a clear and argumentative manner that carried conviction with every sentence. Mr. Ragan closed and 'Squire Printis, in a brief review of the evidence, discharged the prisoner.

Whether or not the prosecntor will bring the case before the next grand jury is not known.