| Cassville Republican, Barry Co., MO |
| Nov. 11, 1897, Thursday |
| Sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary for Bud Greenway, who pleaded guilty of 2nd degree murder. On June 1, 1896, Mathy Hilton and Neb Wilson, son of Jones Wilson of Stone County, were at Scholton and they quarreled. On the way home Hilton met Bud Greenway, his brother-in-law and told him Wilson was in Scholton with two pistols waiting for him. Previously Greenway had charged Wilson with ruining his sister. Greenway went home, got his pistols, borrowed Hilton's mule, which he was to leave at his mother's Mrs. George Solomon to be returned to brother Jim. At Scholton he shot Wilson in the back first. A. M. Hilton tried to stop him. Testifying for the state were A. M. Hilton, Alex and Charles Wilkens, J. W. Bond, press Hilton, Ora Hodge, Jas. Williams, Tella and Len Williams, Ben Ransom, George Bowling, Melvin Hilton, Jack Hunt, Sidney Smith, Guy Storks, Lewis Scott, W. C. Crawford, John W. Donica, Willis Wiley, W. H. Burk, George J. Gwin, J. H. Bradley, B.F. Lamar, Ellis Hilton, and George E. Short. *** Died on Nov. 1st, J. P. Plancheon, father of J. P. S. Plancheon of Monett, age 69 years, 5 months, 26 days. He was a native of Piedmont, Savoy, France. He went in 1854 to Ecuador, S. A. and in 1875 he came to the US. *** Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Hutchens' boy baby, aged about one year, died Sunday night and was interred in the Cassville Cemetery, Monday after services by Rev. J. W. Ennis. |
| Resource: State Historical Society of MO Microfilm |
| Submitted by: Donna Cooper |
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