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BILL FLETCHER
Official ’Locker-Upper* Steel doom clanked! shut behind prominent county official* end several innocent bystanders Monday moraine as seif-deputised Bill Fletcher showed theifl the error of their ways. -U1 | James K. Settle, Clerk of Court, James W. Fletcher, Commissioner of Accounts .(and prominent attorney), C. J. Miller, j Cashier of Rappahannock Natl ojip a 1 Bank, Guy Burks, Deputy Sheriff, Mrs. Charlotte Trout* and 'Mrs. Jean Althur, secretaries, anjd two outof-town ers, pleaded id rain for young Bill to hear their case.
Friends of .the j tiled were prompt in their attempts to free them. Mirs. C. T. Brock, of the Rappahannock National Bank, was immediately on the scene, bat to no avail. The Jailer stohd in front of the big vault in the Clerk’s
Office, and insisted—j’Dont let
’em out — keep the pascals in
there.** S' j j
Luckily W. F. Moffett, attorney, happened by and as Clerk Settle called out instructional Attorney (Moffett dialed the combination and relcasad the inmawa. Young Bill, who ha* always believed Crime Doesn't Pay, bit Justice Triumphs, disillusioned, left quickly
by the front door. I I
Charges — of peeving one Bill Fletcher, age six—have been filed; against tha officials. Attorney, James W. Fletcher will; handle— or has handled — his wjn’s 'case. May we suggest lienency for the
truants in view of theiij sentence
already having been sejnred, and I say that perhaps young! j Bill will settle for a pony all faif own, or a year’s subscription ti; an ice cream store. I
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