The following article was published in the September 3, 1931, issue of The Mountain Eagle (page 1):
Henry Craft Killed By George McCall
Up on Pine Mountain above the head of Pine Creek, four or five miles above the city, Sunday evening, Henry Craft, about forty-five, and George McCall, about forty, apparently had some kind of disagreement, it is said in a dispute over the scripture, and the latter cut Craft so severely in the throat that he bled to death in a few minutes. A small knife, it is said, was used by McCall, which cut the jugular vein. McCall was brought to jail here and was indicted by the grand jury now in session.
At this time the cause of the difficulty seems to be shrouded in mystery. The two men were neighbors and so far as known the best of friends. However, it is talked that the men had been drinking. Craft leaves a widow and a large family of children. He was a son of the late Ned Craft.
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The following was published in the September 3, 1931, issue of The Mountain Eagle (page 3):
How foolish and how sad that men will so far forget themselves as a number of men did on last Sunday and bring about an incident as sad as the death of Henry Craft. They tell us that the lives of two good women are drecked and at least fourteen chlidren are thrown out into the world with little or few opportunities to exist. It seems that a great proportion of the human family will never stop to take the second thought which is always the best, and would always save much trouble and distress among people. If people would just think!
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The following article was published in the September 10, 1931, issue of The Mountain Eagle (page 1):
McCALL GETS SEVEN YEARS
Following his indictment on the charge of cutting and killing Henry Craft on Pine Mountain last Sunday evening a week ago, George McCall, 40, was tried in Circuit Court here this week and given seven years in the State Reformatory, The whole trouble grew out of the drinking of about a half gallon of moonshine, bought an hour or so before on top of Pine Mountain. It developed in the trial that all five or six men in the crowd except the man who was killed had imbibed freely of the whiskey. Craft had only took a few drams. In the drunken stupor it appeared that the men present when the cutting took place hardly realized what had happened until it was all over.
It was said that some of the jury at first favored a very much heavier term in the penitentiary but finally agreed on seven years.
Henry Craft Killed By George McCall
Up on Pine Mountain above the head of Pine Creek, four or five miles above the city, Sunday evening, Henry Craft, about forty-five, and George McCall, about forty, apparently had some kind of disagreement, it is said in a dispute over the scripture, and the latter cut Craft so severely in the throat that he bled to death in a few minutes. A small knife, it is said, was used by McCall, which cut the jugular vein. McCall was brought to jail here and was indicted by the grand jury now in session.
At this time the cause of the difficulty seems to be shrouded in mystery. The two men were neighbors and so far as known the best of friends. However, it is talked that the men had been drinking. Craft leaves a widow and a large family of children. He was a son of the late Ned Craft.
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The following was published in the September 3, 1931, issue of The Mountain Eagle (page 3):
How foolish and how sad that men will so far forget themselves as a number of men did on last Sunday and bring about an incident as sad as the death of Henry Craft. They tell us that the lives of two good women are drecked and at least fourteen chlidren are thrown out into the world with little or few opportunities to exist. It seems that a great proportion of the human family will never stop to take the second thought which is always the best, and would always save much trouble and distress among people. If people would just think!
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The following article was published in the September 10, 1931, issue of The Mountain Eagle (page 1):
McCALL GETS SEVEN YEARS
Following his indictment on the charge of cutting and killing Henry Craft on Pine Mountain last Sunday evening a week ago, George McCall, 40, was tried in Circuit Court here this week and given seven years in the State Reformatory, The whole trouble grew out of the drinking of about a half gallon of moonshine, bought an hour or so before on top of Pine Mountain. It developed in the trial that all five or six men in the crowd except the man who was killed had imbibed freely of the whiskey. Craft had only took a few drams. In the drunken stupor it appeared that the men present when the cutting took place hardly realized what had happened until it was all over.
It was said that some of the jury at first favored a very much heavier term in the penitentiary but finally agreed on seven years.
The following article was published in the September 3, 1931, issue of The Mountain Eagle (page 1):
Henry Craft Killed By George McCall
Up on Pine Mountain above the head of Pine Creek, four or five miles above the city, Sunday evening, Henry Craft, about forty-five, and George McCall, about forty, apparently had some kind of disagreement, it is said in a dispute over the scripture, and the latter cut Craft so severely in the throat that he bled to death in a few minutes. A small knife, it is said, was used by McCall, which cut the jugular vein. McCall was brought to jail here and was indicted by the grand jury now in session.
At this time the cause of the difficulty seems to be shrouded in mystery. The two men were neighbors and so far as known the best of friends. However, it is talked that the men had been drinking. Craft leaves a widow and a large family of children. He was a son of the late Ned Craft.
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The following was published in the September 3, 1931, issue of The Mountain Eagle (page 3):
How foolish and how sad that men will so far forget themselves as a number of men did on last Sunday and bring about an incident as sad as the death of Henry Craft. They tell us that the lives of two good women are drecked and at least fourteen chlidren are thrown out into the world with little or few opportunities to exist. It seems that a great proportion of the human family will never stop to take the second thought which is always the best, and would always save much trouble and distress among people. If people would just think!
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The following article was published in the September 10, 1931, issue of The Mountain Eagle (page 1):
McCALL GETS SEVEN YEARS
Following his indictment on the charge of cutting and killing Henry Craft on Pine Mountain last Sunday evening a week ago, George McCall, 40, was tried in Circuit Court here this week and given seven years in the State Reformatory, The whole trouble grew out of the drinking of about a half gallon of moonshine, bought an hour or so before on top of Pine Mountain. It developed in the trial that all five or six men in the crowd except the man who was killed had imbibed freely of the whiskey. Craft had only took a few drams. In the drunken stupor it appeared that the men present when the cutting took place hardly realized what had happened until it was all over.
It was said that some of the jury at first favored a very much heavier term in the penitentiary but finally agreed on seven years.
Henry Craft Killed By George McCall
Up on Pine Mountain above the head of Pine Creek, four or five miles above the city, Sunday evening, Henry Craft, about forty-five, and George McCall, about forty, apparently had some kind of disagreement, it is said in a dispute over the scripture, and the latter cut Craft so severely in the throat that he bled to death in a few minutes. A small knife, it is said, was used by McCall, which cut the jugular vein. McCall was brought to jail here and was indicted by the grand jury now in session.
At this time the cause of the difficulty seems to be shrouded in mystery. The two men were neighbors and so far as known the best of friends. However, it is talked that the men had been drinking. Craft leaves a widow and a large family of children. He was a son of the late Ned Craft.
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The following was published in the September 3, 1931, issue of The Mountain Eagle (page 3):
How foolish and how sad that men will so far forget themselves as a number of men did on last Sunday and bring about an incident as sad as the death of Henry Craft. They tell us that the lives of two good women are drecked and at least fourteen chlidren are thrown out into the world with little or few opportunities to exist. It seems that a great proportion of the human family will never stop to take the second thought which is always the best, and would always save much trouble and distress among people. If people would just think!
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The following article was published in the September 10, 1931, issue of The Mountain Eagle (page 1):
McCALL GETS SEVEN YEARS
Following his indictment on the charge of cutting and killing Henry Craft on Pine Mountain last Sunday evening a week ago, George McCall, 40, was tried in Circuit Court here this week and given seven years in the State Reformatory, The whole trouble grew out of the drinking of about a half gallon of moonshine, bought an hour or so before on top of Pine Mountain. It developed in the trial that all five or six men in the crowd except the man who was killed had imbibed freely of the whiskey. Craft had only took a few drams. In the drunken stupor it appeared that the men present when the cutting took place hardly realized what had happened until it was all over.
It was said that some of the jury at first favored a very much heavier term in the penitentiary but finally agreed on seven years.
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