. A history of middle New River settlements and contiguous territory . the floor, then sprang out and started ona run to escape; Johnston, the jailor, had an old musket load-ed with powder and buck shot, which he kept in an adjoiningroom, and as soon as he could recover himself he seized themusket and ran out into the street; but by this time Lucas hadgone more than 150 yards away, when Johnston pulled downon him and wounded him in one of his legs, which brought himto the ground, and the jailor soon had him back in the dun-geon. Michael Montgole and family, in 1821, lived on the end of theLitt
. A history of middle New River settlements and contiguous territory . the floor, then sprang out and started ona run to escape; Johnston, the jailor, had an old musket load-ed with powder and buck shot, which he kept in an adjoiningroom, and as soon as he could recover himself he seized themusket and ran out into the street; but by this time Lucas hadgone more than 150 yards away, when Johnston pulled downon him and wounded him in one of his legs, which brought himto the ground, and the jailor soon had him back in the dun-geon. Michael Montgole and family, in 1821, lived on the end of theLittle Mountain, just below the mouth of Wolf Creek, in asmall hollow, a few hundred yards west of the late residenceof the late Joseph Hare, Esq. Montgole was accused of themurder of his wife, by shooting her with a rifle gun, on June16th, 1821. He claimed that the shooting was accidental, andinsisted upon his innocence. He was arrested and promptly in-dicted by the Grand Jury of Giles County. Feeling againsthim was so strong that he was enabled to procure a change of. THOMAS BERRY FARLEY RlPPLEMEAD, 1795, Died 1903, age 108 years when this photograph was taken. 1795-1836 165 venue to the Circuit Court of the County of Montgomery,wherein he was tried and convicted in May, 1822, and executed}n the 21st of June, 1822. He died protesting his innocence. Dave Lucas, another son of Randalls, was more than once inhe Virginia penitentiary for larceny and other crimes, andinally, in 1841, he murdered John Poff, of Franklin County,Virginia, and being suspected of the murder, he ran away intoBotetourt County, where he was arrested and brought back,indicted and on the 13th day of May, 1842, was tried by aju:y composed of Robert Farris, Robert Caldwell, ChristianSimmonds, Olliver C. Peters, Tobias Miller, Edward Nelson,Reuben Hughes, St. Clair French, Samuel Thompson, Josephbanning, Charles Miller, and Hiram Pauley, who found himgiilty of murder and on the 16th day of the same month he
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