Latest / The Mountain Eagle / 6.12.25
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Now we turn to the Mountain Eagle to read news
- 0:04from Witsburg. Your reader today is build an Arsenal. We
- 0:09will be reading from the edition dated June eleventh, twenty
- 0:12twenty five, which was donated by the publishers to Radio
- 0:16Eye as a reminder. RADIOI is a reading service intended
- 0:20for people who are blind or have other disabilities that
- 0:23make it difficult to read printed material. The first story
- 0:28is some good news for those who've been missing. The
- 0:31Whitesburg swimming pool. July fourth might be associated with fireworks,
- 0:38but the Wisburg city officials hope it will be associated with.
- 0:42Speaker 2: Water this year.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Mayor Tiffany Kraft said the Witsburg Municipal swimming pool, which
- 0:48has been closed for years, may reopen in time for
- 0:52Independence Day. We already have people wanting to book for
- 0:56their parties and church events, Kraft said Tuesday. The pool
- 1:00already had a plumbing problem and had been closed when
- 1:04the flood hit in twenty twenty two and caused more damage.
- 1:08But Kraft said while officials were first told it would
- 1:11cost two million dollars to repair, it will be substantially less,
- 1:16though she couldn't say how much less. The first contractor
- 1:21to bid. Wanted to make a zero entry, meaning the
- 1:24pool would slope upward all the way to the edge,
- 1:27and put a vinyl liner in the pool rather than
- 1:30repair the concrete pool, but Kraft said that would have
- 1:34been less durable and more expensive than repairing the concrete.
- 1:38It was not nearly as bad as we had been told,
- 1:40she said. City workers are doing the repairs with help
- 1:45from contractor Herky Brooks. The plumbing is nearing completion and
- 1:50waiting for inspection. Once that's done, Kraft said, the concrete
- 1:55can be poured around the pool and the crack repaired.
- 1:59The splash pad for children will be repaired also, and
- 2:02the pool will continue to have a diving board, though
- 2:05the water slide will not be replaced. The pool will
- 2:09also have a lift chair to help those with physical
- 2:12handicaps get into the water.
- 2:14Speaker 2: The pool ranges from.
- 2:15Speaker 1: Around three feet deep at the shallow end to about
- 2:18ten feet in the diving well. The city is in
- 2:23the process of applying for a land and water conservation
- 2:26grant that will help reimburse the city for the cost
- 2:30if it is awarded.
- 2:31Speaker 2: Craft said.
- 2:35Speaker 1: The next headline is both cases involving ex Sheriff Steins
- 2:40still alive. Despite widespread rumors, there's been no evidence presented
- 2:45showing the cases are connected. A brief filed in the
- 2:50federal civil lawsuit against former Sheriff Sean Mickey Steins and
- 2:55other defendants has kept the case open for now after
- 2:59Stein's was dropped from it when he resigned from office
- 3:02following his arrest for murder in the shooting death of
- 3:06Letcher District Judge Kevin R. Mullins. Meanwhile, in the criminal case,
- 3:11Steins's defense attorneys have asked for the murder indictment against
- 3:15him to be dismissed and that he be granted a
- 3:17bond so he can get out of jail and return home.
- 3:22So far, there has been no evidence that the two
- 3:24cases are connected in any way, despite social media rumors.
- 3:30The brief to keep the civil suit alive was filed
- 3:34after the defendants in that lawsuit filed motions for summary judgment.
- 3:38The civil case was filed after Sabrina Atkins and Jennifer
- 3:42Hill claimed that Deputy Ben Fields, who was in charge
- 3:46of home incarceration for East Kentucky Correction, coerced them into
- 3:50having sex with him in the Mullins' office and in
- 3:53his police cruiser. By offering to turn off their electronic
- 3:56ankle bracelets so they would not have to pay for them.
- 4:01Fields pleaded guilty to rape in a related criminal case
- 4:04in Letcher County. When the two sides were unable to
- 4:09reach an agreement on settling the case, Fields and new
- 4:12Sheriff Billy Jones, who was added to the case in
- 4:16his official capacity when Stein's resigned, filed motions for summary judgment, which,
- 4:21if approved, would dismiss the case and leave Atkins and
- 4:24the estate of Hill with nothing. The new brief argues
- 4:29that while Fields's motion for summary judgment says there was
- 4:33no non consensual sex, the brief filed by the plaintiffs
- 4:38says the women were unable to consent because of the
- 4:40power dynamic in which Fields was a law enforcement officer
- 4:44supervising two prisoners. Defendant Fields violated plaintiff's right to bodily integrity,
- 4:51and summary judgment is not warranted as to plaintiff's constitutional claims.
- 4:55Speaker 2: The brief says.
- 4:58Speaker 1: The judge in U S District Court in Pipe has
- 5:00not set a date for a hearing on the motions
- 5:04in the motion in Lecher's Circuit Court to dismiss the
- 5:07murder indictment against Steins. The defense attorneys Jeremy and Carrie
- 5:11Bartley and James Cox, argue that there was another meeting
- 5:15between Special Prosecutor Jackie Steele and the grand jury before
- 5:19the murder indictment was returned, and that the meeting was
- 5:22not recorded. The law requires grand jury testimony to be recorded,
- 5:28but the prosecution has said there was no testimony at
- 5:30the first meeting, only a request for grand jury subpoenas
- 5:34for witnesses. The defense claims that grand jurors in the
- 5:38later recorded session asked about a civil case in which
- 5:41Steins was a defendant in his official capacity, but were
- 5:45redirected to deprive the Grand jury of its independent investigation.
- 5:51The grand jurors asked questions and were prevented from hearing
- 5:53complete answers, the defense motion says, going on to claim
- 5:58that had the Commonwealth presented complete and accurate testimony to
- 6:01the grand jury, the decision to charge, or at least
- 6:05the choice of appropriate charge, would likely have been different.
- 6:10The defense also claimed that known information as to allegations
- 6:14made in the civil case were withheld from.
- 6:16Speaker 2: The grand jury.
- 6:19Speaker 1: The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School defines
- 6:22an allegation as a claim of fact not yet proven
- 6:25to be true. The attorneys are asking for an evidentiary
- 6:30hearing and dismissal of the indictment. The Commonwealth has not
- 6:34yet filed a response to the motion. In the second
- 6:38motion filed in criminal court, the defense asks that Steins
- 6:43be granted a bond hearing following the psychiatric examination scheduled
- 6:47for later this month. They say Stein's is entitled to
- 6:51bond because the indictment alone contains no proof that guilt
- 6:55is evident or the presumption of guilt is great. Special
- 7:00Mecher's Circuit Judge Christopher Kloran, who presides over court in
- 7:03the eighth Circuit in Warren County, has indicated he will
- 7:07travel to Letcher County for any bond hearing held in
- 7:09the case. Steins is charged with murdering Leedcher District Judge
- 7:14Kevin R. Mullins in his chambers on September nineteenth, twenty
- 7:19twenty four. The shooting was captured on a security camera
- 7:23in Mullins's office. The next story is SNAP cuts could
- 7:30hurt grocery stores too. Critics of proposed cuts to the
- 7:36Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP are struggling to find evidence
- 7:41of how the cuts would help US taxpayers, but they
- 7:45say one thing is clear. The changes outlined in the
- 7:49One Big Beautiful Bill could leave thousands of rural Americans hungary.
- 7:55Cuts to snap would affect residents of every state in
- 7:57all types of communities. Tickets fear the fallout could especially
- 8:01hit rural people who are more dependent on food stamps,
- 8:05the largest anti hunger program in the nation, reports Kevin
- 8:09Hardy for The Daily Montana. The bill expands work requirements
- 8:14to include people between fifty five and sixty four years
- 8:17old and those with children aged seven or older. It
- 8:22contains stiffer rules for counties with higher unemployment numbers. Government
- 8:28penalties for not working a required number of hours are
- 8:31dramatically tougher on rural residents because more remote places have
- 8:35far fewer business and employment opportunities. Hardy ads rural hunger
- 8:41is already on the rise, and grocery stores face an
- 8:44uphill battle to keep going in the most isolated parts
- 8:47of the country. Residents in southeastern Missouri's Mississippi County, many
- 8:54of whom can scarcely afford a roof over their heads
- 8:57and food on their tables, provide an example of whose
- 9:00SNAP cuts will hurt the most. Hardy explains limited job
- 9:05opportunities leave many workers struggling to cover housing and grocery bills.
- 9:11Nearly a quarter of residents live below the poverty line,
- 9:14almost double the state and national averages. Snap cuts stand
- 9:20to do irreparable harm to rural grocery stores that already
- 9:24face razor thin profit margins. The National Grocers Association has
- 9:30opposed the potential cuts, saying SNAP provides not only critical
- 9:35food but also meaningful boosts to local employment and economies.
- 9:40Hardy reports, the organization, which represents retail and wholesale grocers,
- 9:47said cuts will particularly hurt independent and rural stores. Deep
- 9:52cuts to SNAP would have an uneven impact on rural stores,
- 9:56Hardy explains. For k VASS, the cuts would be uistrothek
- 10:00at Her Stratton Country market in southwest Nebraska. She estimates
- 10:05forty percent of sales or paid for with SNAP. She
- 10:09told Hardy, I'd probably close the doors. Hungry people have
- 10:14fewer places to go in rural America, which adds stress
- 10:18to regional food banks that have already faced an uptake
- 10:21in need because of food inflation. Hardy reports cuts to
- 10:26the snap program will drive up demand on food banks,
- 10:30especially in rural areas. Next is the caption of a
- 10:36photo beautifying the town of Blackie. The recent addition of
- 10:41two pots of bright red geraniums seen under the Welcome
- 10:45to Blackie sign add beauty to a welcome area visitors
- 10:49to Blackie when they enter the town. The next story
- 10:55is memorial to local cops firemen killed on John moves forward.
- 11:03After five years in the making, a police officer is
- 11:05finally realizing his dream of a new memorial at the
- 11:09Lecher County Courthouse. But what started off as a memorial
- 11:13for law enforcement officers who died in the line of
- 11:16duty has now expanded to include firefighters who lost their
- 11:20lives protecting others. Michael Blair, a former Whitsburg police officer
- 11:26and not County Deputy sheriff, is now a London police officer,
- 11:31but he has still been pushing to build the memorial here.
- 11:35A native of Crasus Branch, Blair has finally raised the
- 11:39money necessary and has turned the names over to the
- 11:42Rustic Rooster of Metal Fabrication Shop at Kona. We've done
- 11:48paid for it, It's just ready to be built now,
- 11:50Blair said. I'm excited to see it. Blair said he
- 11:54raised the money for the sign through donations and nothing
- 11:57came from tax money. Around thirteen hundred dollars short and
- 12:02the Lectter County Chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police
- 12:05donated that the county opened an account to hold the
- 12:09money and will use it to pay for the sign.
- 12:12Blair said any of the two thousand, six hundred five
- 12:15dollars raised that is left over will be used to
- 12:18maintain the sign. The sign was originally planned for law enforcement,
- 12:24but during the fundraising, Blair learned that the family of
- 12:27one of two firefighters from Fleming, Neon who died during
- 12:31a forest fire, thought their names would be on it.
- 12:35John Randall Adams and John Emerson Spangler, both nineteen, died
- 12:40in nineteen ninety one, three years before Blair was born.
- 12:45When he heard about them, he searched for others who
- 12:48had died in the line of duty and added them
- 12:50to the list as well. At that point it was
- 12:54a police memorial, only we added five more names to
- 12:58it of fireman, Blair said. He said, in order to
- 13:02be on the sign, the officer or firefighter must have
- 13:05died on duty or as a direct result of an
- 13:08injury that occurred while on duty. The only way to
- 13:11qualify is if you qualify to be on the state memorial.
- 13:16The five firefighters names on the memorial include three from
- 13:21Neon Volunteer Fire Department, one from may King Volunteer Fire Department,
- 13:26and one from Weisburg Fire Department. Of the police officers
- 13:31to be listed, nineteen were with the Electric County Sheriff's Department,
- 13:35one from Weisburg Police Department, and four constables or deputy constables.
- 13:41The oldest name on the list is Deputy Sheriff William S. Wright,
- 13:45who was shot to death on his way home on
- 13:47January thirtieth, nineteen hundred. His son, also named William, is
- 13:53the second oldest name on the list. He was part
- 13:56of a sheriff's posse and was killed on April eleven
- 14:01while attempting to arrest his father's killers. The newest name
- 14:06on the list is Wetchburg Fire Department Assistant Chief Joe Back,
- 14:10who died October thirtieth, twenty twenty three, three days after
- 14:15collapsing while on an emergency medical run in the Weichburg
- 14:19housing project. The next story is LCC girls rally but
- 14:26fall short in state tourney The Taylor County Lady Cardinals
- 14:32scored one run in the first inning and added four
- 14:35more runs in the third inning, three of them unearned,
- 14:38on their way to a five to three win over
- 14:41the Letcher County Central Lady Cougars in the KHSAA State
- 14:46Fast Pitch Tournament in Lexington on Saturday. With two outs
- 14:51in the top of the first inning, fourteenth Region champion
- 14:54Leccher Central's Kara Holcombe singled up the middle, but the
- 14:57offense was unable to do anything else against Taylor County
- 15:00pitcher Maddie Hunt. The Lady Cardinals scored the game's first
- 15:05run in the bottom of the opening frame when center
- 15:08fielder Riley Sprowls, batting leadoff, doubled to left field on
- 15:13a two to two count, advanced to third on a
- 15:15ground out, and scored on a sacrifice fly to center.
- 15:20Both teams went hitless until the bottom of the third inning.
- 15:24Taylor County shortstop Claire Melton singled on a comebacker to
- 15:29LCC pitcher Scarlett Stamper, and Riley sprows hit a single
- 15:32to left field, advancing Melton to second base. A fielding
- 15:37error in the outfield allowed Melton to score from second base.
- 15:41Notching the second of only two earned runs given up
- 15:44in the seven inning game by LCC pitcher Stamper. The
- 15:49Lady Cardinals were able to score three more unearned runs
- 15:52before the inning ended, leaving the score standing at five
- 15:56to nothing. After Electra County Central threatened to score in
- 16:01the fourth inning after getting hits from Kaylee Bentley and
- 16:04Sarah Richardson in the third inning, the Lady Cougars finally
- 16:08came through in the fifth inning when they rallied for
- 16:10three runs to cut Taylor County's advantage to five to three.
- 16:16With one out, center fielder Emma Pavlick singled and advanced
- 16:19to second, then was able to score after a bunt
- 16:22single by catcher Katie Combs, who ended up at second
- 16:26on the play. After Combs advanced to third on a
- 16:29ground out by Scarlett Stamper. She was then able to
- 16:33score when Carol Holcombe singled up the middle. Kaylee Bentley
- 16:38followed with a double to right center, scoring Wholcombe before
- 16:41the inning came to an end, with neither team able
- 16:46to get any offense going after that point. The game
- 16:49ended after LCC was unable to tie the game up
- 16:52in the seventh inning Katie Combs, Carol Holcombe, and Kaylee
- 16:57Bentley each had two hits in four play appears brances
- 17:00to lead the Lady Cougar's offense.
- 17:03Speaker 2: Hulcombe and Bentley each knocked in a run.
- 17:07Speaker 1: Both pitchers, Elsiecs Stamper and Taylor County's Hunt, pitched complete games,
- 17:12with each giving up eight hits. Hunt gave up three
- 17:16earned runs while Stamper gave up only two. The game
- 17:20was played Saturday morning before a crowd of one thousand,
- 17:23ninety seven at John Crop Stadium. Lecher County Central ended
- 17:28the twenty twenty five season with a one loss record
- 17:32of twenty three to fifteen, while the win over the
- 17:35Lady Cougar's improved Taylor County's record to twenty eight and seven.
- 17:39The Lady Cardinals saw their season come to an end
- 17:42on Sunday when they fell to fifteen three D champion
- 17:45Lawrence County by the score of three to two. Four
- 17:50teams are now left standing in the tournament, which continues
- 17:53this coming Friday at John Crop Stadium, with Lawrence County
- 17:57taking on Louisville Assumption and Henderson County facing Scott County.
- 18:02The winners of those two games will play for the
- 18:05title of state champion on Saturday. The next item as
- 18:12a photo Big season comes to an end. Last at
- 18:17bat for Aubrey Fields nine as a Fleming Neon Minor
- 18:22League Angel Aubrey finished the regular season with a batting
- 18:26average of eight to twenty with forty one hits, four
- 18:29home runs, and thirty three RBIs. She is a daughter
- 18:34of Matthew and Brandy Fields and a granddaughter of Alfred
- 18:37Fields and the late Linda Fields and Laura Treadway and
- 18:41Ronnie Hall, Ali McRoberts and Robert Treadway of Coburn, Virginia,
- 18:49and another photo is finishes first in competitions. Grandmaster Frank Sexton,
- 18:56owner and chief instructor of John Eng's Four Seasons Southern
- 18:59Golden Monkey Kung Fu School, competed in the Carolina Open
- 19:03Martial Arts Tournament in Columbia, South Carolina. Sexton won the
- 19:08eighteen and above black Belt Forms and Weapons and the
- 19:12thirty five and above Executive black Belt Forms and Weapon divisions.
- 19:16Sexton and members of the Kung Fu School will compete
- 19:19in eight more tournaments this year in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee,
- 19:26and Kentucky. The next story is Gabby's Fishing Fever by
- 19:32Greg Gabby Carl. Be sure you have search baits. If
- 19:39there was one tip I could give a bass angler
- 19:41who wants to get on the fish as fast as
- 19:43they can, it would be to learn how to use
- 19:46what experienced bass anglers refer to as search baits to
- 19:50find active bass. To understand and use this pattern, you
- 19:56need a general understanding of a few things, such as
- 19:59looking for fish feel activity on the surface, being able
- 20:02to see different types of cover, and knowing how bass
- 20:06relate to each form of the cover. You also need
- 20:09to be aware of water depth and at what depth
- 20:12the fish should be holding. Knowing all these things will
- 20:16give you a big advantage over most anglers on where
- 20:19to find active feeding areas of the lake where bass
- 20:22should be.
- 20:24Speaker 2: If you find an.
- 20:24Speaker 1: Area you want to fish, a great way to approach
- 20:27it is using the search baits. These include shallow running
- 20:31crank baits, buzz baits, and spinner baits. These baits accomplish
- 20:36two very important things. They cover a lot of water
- 20:39quickly and separate productive water from unproductive water, saving you
- 20:44time and putting you on active feeding areas. These baits
- 20:49also catch active feeding bass in the area. They show
- 20:52where the best areas are to fish and the activity
- 20:55level of the bass. Just knowing these things will help
- 20:59you set up a gass catching pattern and save wasted
- 21:02time fishing dead water. They will put you on bass
- 21:05quickly and help you set up a good pattern. This
- 21:09mindset will put you way above a lot of anglers
- 21:12for sure. Thanks and God bless you all. The next
- 21:19story is Strutting Time by Steve Brewer Leave the Bears
- 21:24alone for now.
- 21:27Speaker 2: Here. It is the middle of June and.
- 21:29Speaker 1: I am already getting requests from dear friends in Letcher
- 21:32County to please come home during black bear season and
- 21:36rid my place of black bear. One of my friends
- 21:40in the Jenkins area said they saw just one.
- 21:42Speaker 2: A few weeks ago. Then today it was three.
- 21:46Speaker 1: As I grinned and thought to myself, it was her
- 21:49babies with her this time. A glance at his trail
- 21:52cam picture confirmed my opinion. I would love to come
- 21:56take some black bears off your hands. After all, I
- 22:00have taken a total of eleven black bear hunting Maine,
- 22:03North Carolina, and Virginia, but taking one in the Commonwealth
- 22:07is a bear of a different color. In Maine, most
- 22:11of the black bear that I've taken has been in
- 22:13baited areas and a couple with the use of hounds.
- 22:17But in Kentucky, the use of bait to attract black
- 22:20bears is illegal, and the most common form of bait
- 22:24is your backyard garbage. You see, our people unknowingly are
- 22:28violating the law when they don't use bearproof garbage cans.
- 22:32And that is fine with me if they don't, because
- 22:34it gives the bears something to eat. But let's just say,
- 22:38for the sake of this strutting time column, that I
- 22:41do come and sit on your porch and it is
- 22:43visited by a black bear. Remember, they must be checked
- 22:47in like deer or turkey, So I take it and
- 22:50check it in. That's when the fun part starts. Mister Brewer,
- 22:55where did you get this black bear? The game warden
- 22:58will ask. Answer, mister game warden, I killed it off
- 23:02my neighbor's porch while having a cup of coffee with them.
- 23:05Speaker 2: Mister Brewer, in your opinion.
- 23:07Speaker 1: Did that black bear come to a garbage can? The
- 23:09warden will ask. I will answer, in my opinion, yes
- 23:12it did. The truth will answer or tell a lie
- 23:16and say, oh no, it was just passing through. Mister Brewer,
- 23:21Lets you and me go to the house where you
- 23:23killed it. I want to check the gut pile. The
- 23:25warden will say, I just should have told the truth
- 23:30to begin with. The result is I get arrested and
- 23:33my bear ends up at some Kentucky department cook off.
- 23:37So as much as I would love to come home
- 23:39and sit with you and remove a black bear from
- 23:42your property, I think I will just decline your offer.
- 23:46I know you understand, and remember I love all of you.
- 23:50Kentucky's black bear season opens on December thirteenth and closes
- 23:54on December fourteenth. My free advice to you if you
- 23:59are going to black bear hunt in Kentucky traveled to
- 24:02the deepest parts of the Jefferson or Daniel Boone National Forest.
- 24:09The next article is Kidnapping at Fort Boonsborough by Jaden Gibson.
- 24:16Pioneering settlers of Kentucky in the seventeen seventies contented with
- 24:20the British and French, as well as the Indians and
- 24:23the hostile environment. It seemed impossible to defend the settlements
- 24:27against the threat of Indians and to keep the settlements
- 24:30fortified with munitions and other needs. Some of the settlers
- 24:34returned eastward to civilization. Colonel William Russell advocated abandoning the settlements.
- 24:42By July fourth, seventeen seventy six, when the Declaration of
- 24:45Independence was signed, the area around Boonsborough seemed more secure.
- 24:51Some lived with their families outside the fortification. Daniel Boone
- 24:56lived in a cabin on the river's edge, while some
- 24:59built their homes on them the opposite bank and beyond.
- 25:03On Sunday, July seventh, seventeen seventy six, many of the
- 25:07country's founding fathers attended churches in the capital city of Philadelphia,
- 25:11resolute in their decision to charter America on a course
- 25:15of independence. Meanwhile, on the western border of the wilderness
- 25:20along the Kentucky River in what would later become Kentucky,
- 25:24the Indian threat had seemed to abate somewhat. The inhabitants
- 25:28had a false sense of security as the Indians were
- 25:31methodically spying on Boonsboro and planning their actions. Betsy and
- 25:37Fannie Calloway and other smaller children joined Jemima Boone at
- 25:42the edge of the river as she soaked her sore
- 25:45foot in the water. Jemima jabbed her foot on the
- 25:48sharp end of a piece of cane stalk. A couple
- 25:50days earlier, cain grew throughout the area. In fact, the
- 25:54abundance of cain resulted in the word becoming the first
- 25:57syllable in naming Kentucky. Let's ride in the canoe, sixteen
- 26:02year old Betsy said, we'll paddle Jemima. You can dip
- 26:06your foot in the water, just don't let the fish
- 26:08get your toes. While Daniel Boone was taking an afternoon nap,
- 26:13the three girls giggled and got into the lone serviceable
- 26:16canoe and shoved off, telling the other youngsters that they
- 26:19must wait so as not to overcrowd the boat. After
- 26:23a while, the boat drifted into stronger current, and Jemima's
- 26:27dangling feet acted as a rudder to steer the craft.
- 26:29Speaker 2: Even further along.
- 26:32Speaker 1: Unknown to them, a band of five Indians peered out
- 26:35from the cane on.
- 26:35Speaker 2: The opposite shore. Nathan Nathan.
- 26:39Speaker 1: Betsy yelled toward Nathan Reid on the bank, tell Daniel,
- 26:42the canoe is getting away with us.
- 26:44Speaker 2: Hurry.
- 26:45Speaker 1: Nathan didn't hear her. In fact, the only ones who
- 26:48did hear her were the Indians who stealth through the
- 26:51bushes along the bank, keeping pace with the canoe. After
- 26:56floating a little more than a quarter mile downstream, the
- 26:59boat neared the opposite bank, where the current was slower.
- 27:02One of the girls noticed an abundance of colorful wildflowers
- 27:05nearby and wanted to climb onto the bank to pick them.
- 27:10Holy Moses, not me, Jamiah retorted, there might be engines
- 27:13in the bushes. The back of the canoe turned toward
- 27:17the shore. Immediately, the Indians knew it was their opportunity,
- 27:22and they charged into the shallow water and grabbed the
- 27:25three struggling girls, Betsy and Fanny Kalloway, took swings at
- 27:29them with their paddles as they yelled for help. Soon,
- 27:33the Indians forced the girls to cease their cries for
- 27:36help by holding them tightly by the hair and threatening
- 27:39them with knives and tomahawks as Chief Hanging maw admonished
- 27:43them to be quiet. After a short distance, Jemima Boone's
- 27:47injured foot became so sore that she couldn't walk. When
- 27:52one of the Indians gave her moccasins to wear, Jemima
- 27:55recognized him as a Cherokee. Chief Hanging Maw, who had
- 27:59visited her father at their cabin in Tennessee. You're a
- 28:03friend of my papa, she said to him. Daniel Boone
- 28:06is our pa. He's your friend. These are my sisters.
- 28:10Let us go back home so I finally have a
- 28:14good dealing with Boone hanging. Ma laughed, you will come
- 28:17with us. The group divided into smaller groups after Mau
- 28:22instructed each of the girls to follow along behind a
- 28:25different brave. They proceeded to move through the hills and valleys.
- 28:29This was a method the Indians used to confuse anyone
- 28:32attempting to follow them. Ma knew that Boone and the
- 28:36others would certainly search for the girls. And this concludes
- 28:41the reading of the Mountain Eagle. Your reader has been
- 28:44built and arsenal. Now please stay tuned for continued programming
- 28:49on behalf of everyone here at Radio I thank you
- 28:52for listening, and have a good day.