A CANADIAN DRAMA

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10307, 17 January 1927, Page 3

A CANADIAN DRAMA

TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION. - INNOCENT MEN HELD' FOR MURDER. The London (Ontario) correspondent of the Vancouver Province si pplies a remarkable story, once again illustrating that “truth is stranger than fiction. ” , It is reported that James Edds, aged 23, thought to have been murdered in Bell Country Ivy., scleral months ago, is alive and well at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edds, in Chatham. Live men are now field in Pinesville, Ky. gaol, awaiting trial for the death of Edds.

According to the story trld by the young man, there was some Double at a party in Brown’s Creek, and he warned his associates to slop drinking. One of them hit him t n the head with the butt of a revolver and another poked a revolver against his ribs. Trouble was brewing over a girl. Edds left the community, went to Mobile, Ala., joined the crew of a Norwegian freighter, and sailed fur Spain. WITH FOREIGN LEGION. In Spain he enlisted in the Spanish Foreign Legion, and spent mx months in Morocco, shipped with a crew and landed in France, vnere he spent some time in Paris and Havre and then sailed for New York, where he landed in September. In the meantime it had teen reported that he was killed, and his body burned. A girl reported seeing a body in a Kentucky scamp, but it was gone when the police made a search. Parents of the young man, alarmed at not hearing front him, started a search, and the father spent some weeks iu Kentucky working with the police. ASSOCIATES ARRESTED. While he was there, five associates of the missing man were arrested and charged with Ins death. ’Jiiey were to have been tried on November 8, but the trial was ewargen, and tney are reported as still ;n gaol. Edds knew notlnng i i live supposed killing, he says, and is much surprised to hear tne story.