Isaac
Yelton
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 7 October 1869, page 7
NEWPORT
ADJOURNED-The Circuit Court at Alexandria adjourned yesterday
morning. But one case was tried during the term, that of a person charged with
misdemeanor. The case of Charles Davis charged with stealing from Albert S
Berry, was continued until the next term. The Grand Jury reported indictments
against the following persons;
Isaac L Yelton and John B Gosney, trespass; Richard Tucker, barn-burning.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 2 December 1869, page 7
SWAPPING A HORSE FOR A WIFE-On Tuesday last, as singular transaction was disclosed by the evidence, which created not a little surprise and merriment in the Court room. The defendants called a witness by the name of Isaac Yelton for the purpose of impeaching the testimony of a witness named William Orcutt, who had testified on behalf of the plaintiffs.
After the direct examination of Yelton was concluded, he ws turned over to Mr. Carlisle one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, for cross examination, when the following evidence was elicited:
Attorney-Are you and Orcutt on good terms with
each other?
Witness-Yes sir.
Attorney-Did you never have any quarrel or difficulty?
Witness-No sir, we never did.
Attorney-Did you not take Orcutt's wife away from him and run away with her; and
did you not have a difficulty with im about that?
Witness-I never took his wife away from him.
Attorney-Did not you and a man named Gosney take his wife away from him.
Witness-His wife went away with me and Gosney but we did not take her away form
Orcutt. there was not difficulty at all about it; it was all satisfactory. I
traded him a horse for his wife but I found that I had been imposed on and I
returned her to him and it was all right. There was no quarrel or difficulty
about it.
Attorney-How were you imposed upon?
Witness-I traded the horse for his wife, but he put on me beside two children
and a dog; so I returned her to him. I did not mean that he cheated me in the
trade, for the transaction was all fair; but he imposed on me, he got the best
of the bargain. I had no use for the two children and the dog.
This testimony was given with the utmost coolness and in a manner which indicated that the witness regarded the transaction as entirely legitimate and proper. He is a man of ordinary intelligence and has been for a long time a constable in the upper end of Campbell County.
Having rescinded the contract with Orcutt, we presume that he is now prepared to consider any new proposition that may be submitted to him. Gentlemen who would rather winter a horse than a wife might find it to their advantage to give him a call, but they must bear in mind that he declines to deal in children and dogs.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 26 October 1870, page 7
NEWPORT
Isaac Yelton, a citizen of Campbell County, who is at present in
attendance upon the Criminal Court here, undertook to swallow a piece of beef
weighing about a quarter of a pound, at the Star Hotel, on Monday evening, and
was very badly choked.
He was thought at one time to be a goner, but by hanging him up by the heels and beating him heavily on the back the beef was finally got out.