Phoebe Judge

A.C.

Wade said that he felt terrible and cooperated with police from the start.

He told papers, I gave it lots of consideration.

I never activated it until after hours.

There was no way an innocent person could get hurt.

He had to be breaking in.

I figured it would knock them down on the pavement.

He said, you just never think of everything.

and that some people had been sympathetic to his position.

But he said, in lots of people's minds, I'm a villain.

The county sheriff said he wasn't planning to file charges because he said he, quote,

The sheriff said the death was accidental.

He said the dynamite itself wasn't powerful enough to kill someone, and that Robert Joel McKenzie had died because a piece of the machine had come off and cut his leg, and he bled to death.

David Rainwater represented Robert Joel McKenzie's mother.

A.C.

Wade estimated there had been, quote, four or five dollars in the machine.

David Rainwater thought Robert Joel McKenzie's mother had a good case.

E.C.

Wade was found liable.

The judge wrote,