Two Boys Under Arrest

Article taken from The Lima News, August 8, 1932

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PORTSMOUTH, O., Aug. 8 - (AP) - Two youths accused of seriously stabbing a third young man after disarming Sheriff Edgar Sullivan of Lewis-co, Ky., were under arest in Greenup, Ky., today.
The Victim, John Osborn, 19, of Tygrart Creek, Ky., was taken to a Portsmouth hospital, in a critical condition with a knife wound near his heart.
The accused pair, Walter Burke, 21, and Hobart Burke, 20, were arrested two hours after the attack by Deputy Sherrif Bill Atkins of Greenup-co, aided by William Ratcliff, 38, a railroad employee.
Ratcliff suffered powder burns on his arm while wrestling a pistol from one of the youths.
Osborn was attacked at the conclusion of services yesterday at the Antioch Baptist church on Tygart creek. Sheriff Sullivan who attempted to halt the attack, said the Burkes took two pistols from him. When arrested the youths refused to say where they had left these guns. No charges were filed, pending the outcome fo Osborn's injuries.