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Pulaski. 1890. not on timeline
[] "Settling Old Scores." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. August 6, 1890. Page 5. Newspapers.com.
[August 6, 1890] -
Somerset, Ky., Aug. 5. -- (Special.)--A very serious riot occurred at Burnside late last evening between the Police Judge and Town Marshal on one side and Ben Chestnut and his two sons, John and Hiram, on the other, which resulted in the fatal wounding of two of the participants, and the serious and probably fatal wounding of the other three. An old feud has existed between P. F. Smith and Ben Chestnut for some time. Smith was recently elected Police Judge of Burnside, and Chestnut declared to some friends that he would never permit any one to arrest him under a warrant issued by Smith. Chestnut, who lives on the north side of Cumberland river and votes at the Somerset precinct, attended the election here yesterday, but went home late in the evening and went over to see the progress of the election at the Burnside voting place. His son John, who accompanied him, became boisterous and was arrested by John Coomer, the Town Marshal, and gave bond. Ben Chestnut hearing of this caused the bondsmen to surrender John to the officers, who proceeded to take him to the lock-up. Ben Chestnut and Hiram attacked the officers and demanded John's release. A fight ensued, in which Judge Smith was fatally stabbed, all of the Chestnuts were shot. John's wound is necessarily fatal, a ball passing through the abdomen. The other two also received serious pistol shots in the arms and body. Coomer received sever severe gashes with a knife. All the participants, who are not dead or dying, are confined to their beds and no arrests have been made. Great excitement prevails at Burnside. It is feared that this is only the beginning of more serious trouble, as both parties have many friends. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 4. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 8, 1890. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1890-08-08/ed-1/seq-1/
[August 8, 1890] -
A dispatch from Burnside says there was a fight between the police judge and town marshal on one side and Ben Chestnut and his two sons, John and Hiram, on the other. There was an old feud between P. F. Smith, the police judge, and Ben Chestnut. Chestnut said when Smith was elected that he would never submit to arrest under warrant from him. Monday Jno. Chestnut was arrested and gave bond. His father caused his bondsmen to surrender him and then with his son, Hiram, started to take John away from Marshal Coomer and Judge Smith. In the fight that followed John Chestnut and Judge Smith received several wounds, but Smith is not dangerously hurt. The Chestnuts have long persecuted Smith in very cowardly ways, such as shooting at his house at night, wounding his stock, &c. []
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[] Excerpt from "News Condensed." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 26, 1890. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1890-08-26/ed-1/seq-2/
[August 26, 1890] -
P. F. Smith, police judge, and John Coomer, marshal of Burnside, were tried before Judge Denton, charged with killing John Chestnut at Burnside election day, and acquitted on the grounds of self defense. The Burnside reporter of the Republican says that the decision gives general satisfaction. []
[] "Settling Old Scores." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. August 6, 1890. Page 5. Newspapers.com.
[August 6, 1890] -
SETTLING OLD SCORES.
Grudges Revived By Enemies and Settled in Mortal Combat.
Two Officers and Three Citizens in a Deadly Encounter at Burnside.
All of the Participants Badly Injured, Two of Whom Will die.
Somerset, Ky., Aug. 5. -- (Special.)--A very serious riot occurred at Burnside late last evening between the Police Judge and Town Marshal on one side and Ben Chestnut and his two sons, John and Hiram, on the other, which resulted in the fatal wounding of two of the participants, and the serious and probably fatal wounding of the other three. An old feud has existed between P. F. Smith and Ben Chestnut for some time. Smith was recently elected Police Judge of Burnside, and Chestnut declared to some friends that he would never permit any one to arrest him under a warrant issued by Smith. Chestnut, who lives on the north side of Cumberland river and votes at the Somerset precinct, attended the election here yesterday, but went home late in the evening and went over to see the progress of the election at the Burnside voting place. His son John, who accompanied him, became boisterous and was arrested by John Coomer, the Town Marshal, and gave bond. Ben Chestnut hearing of this caused the bondsmen to surrender John to the officers, who proceeded to take him to the lock-up. Ben Chestnut and Hiram attacked the officers and demanded John's release. A fight ensued, in which Judge Smith was fatally stabbed, all of the Chestnuts were shot. John's wound is necessarily fatal, a ball passing through the abdomen. The other two also received serious pistol shots in the arms and body. Coomer received sever severe gashes with a knife. All the participants, who are not dead or dying, are confined to their beds and no arrests have been made. Great excitement prevails at Burnside. It is feared that this is only the beginning of more serious trouble, as both parties have many friends. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 4. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 8, 1890. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1890-08-08/ed-1/seq-1/
[August 8, 1890] -
A dispatch from Burnside says there was a fight between the police judge and town marshal on one side and Ben Chestnut and his two sons, John and Hiram, on the other. There was an old feud between P. F. Smith, the police judge, and Ben Chestnut. Chestnut said when Smith was elected that he would never submit to arrest under warrant from him. Monday Jno. Chestnut was arrested and gave bond. His father caused his bondsmen to surrender him and then with his son, Hiram, started to take John away from Marshal Coomer and Judge Smith. In the fight that followed John Chestnut and Judge Smith received several wounds, but Smith is not dangerously hurt. The Chestnuts have long persecuted Smith in very cowardly ways, such as shooting at his house at night, wounding his stock, &c. []---
[] Excerpt from "News Condensed." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 26, 1890. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1890-08-26/ed-1/seq-2/
[August 26, 1890] -
P. F. Smith, police judge, and John Coomer, marshal of Burnside, were tried before Judge Denton, charged with killing John Chestnut at Burnside election day, and acquitted on the grounds of self defense. The Burnside reporter of the Republican says that the decision gives general satisfaction. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1890. Lincoln. not on timeline.
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 25, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[August 25, 1891] -
Dick Gentry was acquitted of the murder of John Sandifer, whom he killed in July, 1890. The jury was out about two hours and at first stood three for three years, but they finally came over to the nine who were for acquittal. This was the second trial of the case. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1890? Pulaski
[] "Captured After 12 Years." The Paducah Sun, Paducah, KY. July 30, 1903. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052116/1903-07-30/ed-1/seq-1/
[July 30, 1903] -
CAPTURED AFTER 12 YEARS
Somerset, Ky., July 30 -- Richard Taylor, charged with the murder of Clay Haynes, and who has been a fugitive for 12 years, was arrested at Stearns and lodged in jail here. Taylor was 14 years of age, and had been mistreated by Haynes. Taylor afterwards met Haynes and, it is alleged, told him that he was going to kill him, and that he had better say his prayers at the same time drawing a pistol. After Haynes had finished praying he shot him to death. He then fled the county and has been in Mexico ever since. []
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Lincoln? not on timeline.
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 19, 1890. Page 3. LOC.
[September 19, 1890] -
(OCR needing correction) Mis. Pete Cain was in Wednesday to socttie it for the detention of Mis. Jim Cain, who recently ran oil with her (Mr. Pete's) husband, and was brought back near imiieomiR', I'ukiski county, cue said she was going to leave this country, to which sho would never have returned Mrs. Pete Cain, whoso husband is now in jail for robbery and arson on testimony furnished by her, because ho had left her for another woman, has had a checkered career. She was born in Ton- ueeeee and when quite young was to Ralph iluikett, with whom she lived till hit death at the bunds of Wes Hansford, a negro boy. who struck him with a brick in a Christmas row .hero a few years ago. Ho left her with two little children and she went to live near Rowland. While livinir there a negro named Rob Ixgan entered her house by a window one niirht with intent to criminally assault her. Tho noise awoke her in time to get a pistol a neighbor had loaned her for self-protection, and alio llred on the hitting him four times out of live shots. He was found sometime afterwards in the weeds, nearly dad from his wounds, and biought to jail, where he hovered for a lotii time between life and death. Recovering sufficiently for trial he was sent to the penitentiary for two years but died of hi wound-. Two years ago or more Mrs. P.nrkitif iiuiriitHl PtitoCain and her li ft Mondav bv Dink Fanner, who found her ! ' .,i had ohe knOWIi What WHS Wanted Of her. 1 has not since been "happy all tho .lay." Pete prefei led the younger and pretty wile ol ins hroiiier.nin anu ran on wan her not long ago. Rut for this he might now be a free man, for it was his deserted wife who nave him away. Mrs. Cain had a huge pistol with her when she caino to town and those who knew Iier tepntation did not bother her. She talked very lady-like to a reporter, hut showed that sho was a woman of sorrows and acquainted with grief. She is not over .".0 years of age, but tioublu and care have nearly wiped out the traces of youthful beauty, which once were hers.
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Gooch / Lasley, Lincoln. 1891. not on timeline
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1891? Boyle. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 22, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[September 22, 1891] -
Circuit Court began at Danville yesterday. Several murder cases are on the docket for trial, including that of the negroes for killing Marshal Wells, and of Isaac Shelby, Jr., for killing Lingenfelt. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 25, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[September 25, 1891] -
The negroes, Pomp Bates and George Ward, who killed Town Marshal George Wells, of Junction City, and who were given a new trial, will be tried at Danville to-day. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 29, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[September 29, 1891] -
The jury in the case of the negroes, who killed Marshal Wells, at Junction City, had to be gotten from Pulaski, and it is now under trial at Danville. It will be remembered that the negroes, Bates and Word, were tried at the last term of the court and sentenced to the penitentiary for 10 years, but the court of appeals reversed the decision and granted them a new trial, principally upon the ground that the testimony showed that Wells was not legally qualified as marshal of Junction City and was therefore acting beyond his authority in attempting to arrest the negroes for misdemeanor. Judge R. J. Breckinridge and a colored lawyer from Clay county, where the negroes live, are defending them. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 2, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[October 2, 1891] -
BOYLE CIRCUIT COURT. -- The trial of Pompey Bates, for the murder of Marshal Wells, at Junction City, resulted in a verdict for life. The last court gave him 21 years, but the Court of Appeals reversed the judgment because Wells was not a regularly qualified officer. It was a Pulaski jury that did the business and it is to be hoped their verdict will stand, but it is not likely the Court of Appeals will permit it. The other negro, George Word, for the same offense, is now on trial, a jury having been obtained from Casey. []
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[] Excerpt from "Circuit Court." The Kentucky Advocate, Danville, KY. October 2, 1891. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[October 2, 1891] -
(Uncorrected OCR) CIRCUIT COURT.
'We Fix His Punishment at Confinement in the Penitentiary For Life,' . Says the Jury in the Pomp Bates Cass.
Once more has Pomp Bates been found guilty of the murder of George Wejls but this time, ' instead of twenty-one years, the sentence reads "for life," and the obstinacy of one juror only prevent ed the infliGtin of the deata penalty. The arguments were begun Monday afternoon, but were not finished until Tuesday morning at balf-past eleven o'clock, when District Attorney Herndon made the closing speech for the protecu tion. Fine speeches had also been made by Messrs. Yerkes and Harding for the prosecution, and Judge. Breckinridge made an able plea for the life of his ell ent. -pvt? 'W' c"'"';: The jury got the case a short time b fore dinner, and adjourned at 12 o'clock without having arrived at a decision They began deliberating again at ten minutes past one, and a few minutes after three o'clock announced that a ver diet had been made. Bates was sent for and he entered the court room wearing a confident look, as the decision of the Court of Appeals had caused him to ex pect a lighter sentence this time. The ury filed out of the room and in response to Judge Morrow's question, Mr. Bash, the foreman, read the following verdict "We, the Jury, find the defendent, Pomp Bates, guilty of murder, as charged ia the indictment, and fix his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for life." Bates received the vertict with surprise, and for awhile was so nervous that he couldn't speak to Pennington the colored lawyer, sitting near him The verdict created no surprise with the public generally, as the killing has al ways been considered a cold-blooded murder. The jury on the first ballot stood eight for hanging; three for the life sentence, and one for twenty-one years imprisonment. . The three were willing to go for the death penalty, but the one who voted for manslaughter could not be induced to do so, and to this fact Bates owes his life. ' Immedi ately after the polling of the jury, the defendant .through , his attorney, Judge Breckinridge, moved an objection to the entering of the verdict, and moved that the Court forbid the entering of it, which motions were taken under advisement by the Court. . '? .':;--V:'' V,v: v The trial of George Word, as acceS sory in the killing of Wells, was set for Thursday- morning, and Sheriff Bailey was dispatched to Casey county for a special venire of forty men from, which to get a jury in the case. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 6, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[October 6, 1891] -
The case of George Word went over to February on account of the difficulty in obtaining a jury. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 4, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[March 4, 1892] -
All of the male citizens in the East End seemed to pass here yesterday for Danville, to be examined as jurors in the case of the negro for the murder of Marshal Wells. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 11, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[March 11, 1892] -
The Lincoln county jury in the case against George Word, at Danville, for the murder of Marshal Wells, failed to agree and were discharged at noon Wednesday. When the jury first went to the room they stood on a vote nine for hanging and three for manslaughter. Those for hanging finally agreed to life imprisonment and two of the manslaughter men joined them, but [..]e, Squire L. K. Wells, stuck to 21 years and would not budge from his position. The jury was on the case just seven days and drew for their services from $23 to $30 each, which included mileage. The whole 75 men summoned from this county got in the aggregate $750. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 15, 1892. Page 3. LOC.
[March 15, 1892] -
Judge Morrow refused a new trial in the case of Pomp Bates, the negro sentenced for life for the murder of Marshal Wells, and the case will go to the Court of Appeals. []
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1891? Boyle. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "Circuit Court." The Kentucky Advocate, Danville, KY. October 2, 1891. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[October 2, 1891] -
(Uncorrected OCR) Tuesday afternoon the case of the Commonwealth vs. Jerry Owens and his son Eucene Owens, charted with the murder of the boy Gano Blevins, was called and both sides reported ready ' for trial. Owens was represented .by; Messrs. Breckinridge and Yerkes, and District Attorney Herndon was assisted by County Attorney Harding. After exhausting the regular jury, and summoning every man in town the court adjourned without having secured a jury, and Deputy Sheriff Briscoe was ordered to have ten men report at the court house Wednes-nesday morning in order to complete the panel.
Court convened at nine o'clock Wednesday morning and the jury was com pleted from the ten men summoned. The taking of the testimony then began, and this occupied all the clay, two hours after supper, and until noon Thursday. The testimony was highly interesting, as most anything could, be proved by-the numerous witnesses. Arguments in the case began at two 0,'cioct yesterday, speeches being made by Mersrs. Breckinridge and Yerkes for the defense, "and by Messrs. Herndon and Harding for the State. This occupied the time until half past five; o'clock,' when the case . was' given to the Jury, and no verdict had been reached up to the hour of our going to press. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 6, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[October 6, 1891] -
Jerry Owens and son were acquitted at Danville of the murder of Gano Blevins. []
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1891? Garrard? not on timeline.
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 1, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[September 1, 1891] -
Canor Roberts, who killed Deputy Jailer Parks, of Madison, while he was pursuing his brother in Garrard county, was admitted to bail in the sum of $3,000, which he promptly gave. []
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1891? THIS IS HARLAN NOT LAUREL.
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 24, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[November 24, 1891] -
The London Echo says there were 18 attorneys engaged in the Nobel Smith murder case, which came to Laurel by change of venue from Harlan. It must have been a desperate case to have required so many lawyers. []
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[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 27, 1891. Page 1. LOC.
[November 27, 1891] -
The jury in the Noble Smith case, for killing Charles Cawood, brought in a verdict of "not guilty."
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1891? Laurel. not on timeline.
[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 27, 1891. Page 1. LOC.
[November 27, 1891] -
They also failed to indict Ed Hale for killing Tom Beckner, the evidence showing justification. []
1891. Lincoln. Mullins / Mullins. not on timeline.
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 13, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[January 13, 1891] -
KILLED HER SON. -- Jane Mullins, colored, shot her son Henry through the lungs Sunday night, killing him instantly. The parties lived in Crab Orchard and there are conflicting reports of the murder. One is that it was a deliberate and premeditated deed, the other that it was accidental and happened during a scuffle for the weapon. The woman has since made herself scarce. []
[] Excerpt from Column 4. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 28, 1890. Page 3. LOC.
[November 28, 1890] -
Sheriff Pearl and Deputy Chestnut, of Laurel, delivered B. P. Martin to the jailer here yesterday. The grand jury indicted him for the murder of young Hodge, at Lily, and as the jailer of Laurel married a sister of the man killed, it was thought best to send him here for safe keeping. It is Martin's intention to apply for bail under writ of habeas corpus. Mr. Pearl told a reporter that the jail at London was being guarded, under the impression that Wils Howard and his crowd would attempt to rescue Jennings. []
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Lincoln? not on timeline.
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 19, 1890. Page 3. LOC.
[September 19, 1890] -
(OCR needing correction) Mis. Pete Cain was in Wednesday to socttie it for the detention of Mis. Jim Cain, who recently ran oil with her (Mr. Pete's) husband, and was brought back near imiieomiR', I'ukiski county, cue said she was going to leave this country, to which sho would never have returned Mrs. Pete Cain, whoso husband is now in jail for robbery and arson on testimony furnished by her, because ho had left her for another woman, has had a checkered career. She was born in Ton- ueeeee and when quite young was to Ralph iluikett, with whom she lived till hit death at the bunds of Wes Hansford, a negro boy. who struck him with a brick in a Christmas row .hero a few years ago. Ho left her with two little children and she went to live near Rowland. While livinir there a negro named Rob Ixgan entered her house by a window one niirht with intent to criminally assault her. Tho noise awoke her in time to get a pistol a neighbor had loaned her for self-protection, and alio llred on the hitting him four times out of live shots. He was found sometime afterwards in the weeds, nearly dad from his wounds, and biought to jail, where he hovered for a lotii time between life and death. Recovering sufficiently for trial he was sent to the penitentiary for two years but died of hi wound-. Two years ago or more Mrs. P.nrkitif iiuiriitHl PtitoCain and her li ft Mondav bv Dink Fanner, who found her ! ' .,i had ohe knOWIi What WHS Wanted Of her. 1 has not since been "happy all tho .lay." Pete prefei led the younger and pretty wile ol ins hroiiier.nin anu ran on wan her not long ago. Rut for this he might now be a free man, for it was his deserted wife who nave him away. Mrs. Cain had a huge pistol with her when she caino to town and those who knew Iier tepntation did not bother her. She talked very lady-like to a reporter, hut showed that sho was a woman of sorrows and acquainted with grief. She is not over .".0 years of age, but tioublu and care have nearly wiped out the traces of youthful beauty, which once were hers.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gooch / Lasley, Lincoln. 1891. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 1, 1891. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1891-05-01/ed-1/seq-5/
[May 1, 1891] -
FATALLY SHOT. -- In a difficulty at Kingsville this week John Wesley Gooch was shot in the right side by a fellow named Lasley from Pulaski, the ball going clear through him. The origin of the difficulty is rather obscure. Mr. Gooch, it will be remembered, killed Constable Killion at Highland 10 years ago, but was acquitted on the ground that he acted under a misapprehension of the part Mr. Killion took in a fight he was having with another man. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 22, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[September 22, 1891] -
Circuit Court began at Danville yesterday. Several murder cases are on the docket for trial, including that of the negroes for killing Marshal Wells, and of Isaac Shelby, Jr., for killing Lingenfelt. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 25, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[September 25, 1891] -
The negroes, Pomp Bates and George Ward, who killed Town Marshal George Wells, of Junction City, and who were given a new trial, will be tried at Danville to-day. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 29, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[September 29, 1891] -
The jury in the case of the negroes, who killed Marshal Wells, at Junction City, had to be gotten from Pulaski, and it is now under trial at Danville. It will be remembered that the negroes, Bates and Word, were tried at the last term of the court and sentenced to the penitentiary for 10 years, but the court of appeals reversed the decision and granted them a new trial, principally upon the ground that the testimony showed that Wells was not legally qualified as marshal of Junction City and was therefore acting beyond his authority in attempting to arrest the negroes for misdemeanor. Judge R. J. Breckinridge and a colored lawyer from Clay county, where the negroes live, are defending them. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 2, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[October 2, 1891] -
BOYLE CIRCUIT COURT. -- The trial of Pompey Bates, for the murder of Marshal Wells, at Junction City, resulted in a verdict for life. The last court gave him 21 years, but the Court of Appeals reversed the judgment because Wells was not a regularly qualified officer. It was a Pulaski jury that did the business and it is to be hoped their verdict will stand, but it is not likely the Court of Appeals will permit it. The other negro, George Word, for the same offense, is now on trial, a jury having been obtained from Casey. []---
[] Excerpt from "Circuit Court." The Kentucky Advocate, Danville, KY. October 2, 1891. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[October 2, 1891] -
(Uncorrected OCR) CIRCUIT COURT. 'We Fix His Punishment at Confinement in the Penitentiary For Life,' . Says the Jury in the Pomp Bates Cass.
Once more has Pomp Bates been found guilty of the murder of George Wejls but this time, ' instead of twenty-one years, the sentence reads "for life," and the obstinacy of one juror only prevent ed the infliGtin of the deata penalty. The arguments were begun Monday afternoon, but were not finished until Tuesday morning at balf-past eleven o'clock, when District Attorney Herndon made the closing speech for the protecu tion. Fine speeches had also been made by Messrs. Yerkes and Harding for the prosecution, and Judge. Breckinridge made an able plea for the life of his ell ent. -pvt? 'W' c"'"';: The jury got the case a short time b fore dinner, and adjourned at 12 o'clock without having arrived at a decision They began deliberating again at ten minutes past one, and a few minutes after three o'clock announced that a ver diet had been made. Bates was sent for and he entered the court room wearing a confident look, as the decision of the Court of Appeals had caused him to ex pect a lighter sentence this time. The ury filed out of the room and in response to Judge Morrow's question, Mr. Bash, the foreman, read the following verdict "We, the Jury, find the defendent, Pomp Bates, guilty of murder, as charged ia the indictment, and fix his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for life." Bates received the vertict with surprise, and for awhile was so nervous that he couldn't speak to Pennington the colored lawyer, sitting near him The verdict created no surprise with the public generally, as the killing has al ways been considered a cold-blooded murder. The jury on the first ballot stood eight for hanging; three for the life sentence, and one for twenty-one years imprisonment. . The three were willing to go for the death penalty, but the one who voted for manslaughter could not be induced to do so, and to this fact Bates owes his life. ' Immedi ately after the polling of the jury, the defendant .through , his attorney, Judge Breckinridge, moved an objection to the entering of the verdict, and moved that the Court forbid the entering of it, which motions were taken under advisement by the Court. . '? .':;--V:'' V,v: v The trial of George Word, as acceS sory in the killing of Wells, was set for Thursday- morning, and Sheriff Bailey was dispatched to Casey county for a special venire of forty men from, which to get a jury in the case. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 6, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[October 6, 1891] -
The case of George Word went over to February on account of the difficulty in obtaining a jury. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 4, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[March 4, 1892] -
All of the male citizens in the East End seemed to pass here yesterday for Danville, to be examined as jurors in the case of the negro for the murder of Marshal Wells. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 11, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[March 11, 1892] -
The Lincoln county jury in the case against George Word, at Danville, for the murder of Marshal Wells, failed to agree and were discharged at noon Wednesday. When the jury first went to the room they stood on a vote nine for hanging and three for manslaughter. Those for hanging finally agreed to life imprisonment and two of the manslaughter men joined them, but [..]e, Squire L. K. Wells, stuck to 21 years and would not budge from his position. The jury was on the case just seven days and drew for their services from $23 to $30 each, which included mileage. The whole 75 men summoned from this county got in the aggregate $750. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 15, 1892. Page 3. LOC.
[March 15, 1892] -
Judge Morrow refused a new trial in the case of Pomp Bates, the negro sentenced for life for the murder of Marshal Wells, and the case will go to the Court of Appeals. []1891? Boyle. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "Circuit Court." The Kentucky Advocate, Danville, KY. October 2, 1891. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[October 2, 1891] -
(Uncorrected OCR) Tuesday afternoon the case of the Commonwealth vs. Jerry Owens and his son Eucene Owens, charted with the murder of the boy Gano Blevins, was called and both sides reported ready ' for trial. Owens was represented .by; Messrs. Breckinridge and Yerkes, and District Attorney Herndon was assisted by County Attorney Harding. After exhausting the regular jury, and summoning every man in town the court adjourned without having secured a jury, and Deputy Sheriff Briscoe was ordered to have ten men report at the court house Wednes-nesday morning in order to complete the panel.Court convened at nine o'clock Wednesday morning and the jury was com pleted from the ten men summoned. The taking of the testimony then began, and this occupied all the clay, two hours after supper, and until noon Thursday. The testimony was highly interesting, as most anything could, be proved by-the numerous witnesses. Arguments in the case began at two 0,'cioct yesterday, speeches being made by Mersrs. Breckinridge and Yerkes for the defense, "and by Messrs. Herndon and Harding for the State. This occupied the time until half past five; o'clock,' when the case . was' given to the Jury, and no verdict had been reached up to the hour of our going to press. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 6, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[October 6, 1891] -
Jerry Owens and son were acquitted at Danville of the murder of Gano Blevins. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1891? Garrard? not on timeline.
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 1, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[September 1, 1891] -
Canor Roberts, who killed Deputy Jailer Parks, of Madison, while he was pursuing his brother in Garrard county, was admitted to bail in the sum of $3,000, which he promptly gave. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 24, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[November 24, 1891] -
The London Echo says there were 18 attorneys engaged in the Nobel Smith murder case, which came to Laurel by change of venue from Harlan. It must have been a desperate case to have required so many lawyers. []---
[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 27, 1891. Page 1. LOC.
[November 27, 1891] -
The jury in the Noble Smith case, for killing Charles Cawood, brought in a verdict of "not guilty."-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1891? Laurel. not on timeline.
[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 27, 1891. Page 1. LOC.
[November 27, 1891] -
They also failed to indict Ed Hale for killing Tom Beckner, the evidence showing justification. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 13, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[January 13, 1891] -
KILLED HER SON. -- Jane Mullins, colored, shot her son Henry through the lungs Sunday night, killing him instantly. The parties lived in Crab Orchard and there are conflicting reports of the murder. One is that it was a deliberate and premeditated deed, the other that it was accidental and happened during a scuffle for the weapon. The woman has since made herself scarce. []
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1890? Laurel. Martin / Hodge. not on timeline.
1890? Laurel. Martin / Hodge. not on timeline.
[] Excerpt from Column 4. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 28, 1890. Page 3. LOC.
[November 28, 1890] -
Sheriff Pearl and Deputy Chestnut, of Laurel, delivered B. P. Martin to the jailer here yesterday. The grand jury indicted him for the murder of young Hodge, at Lily, and as the jailer of Laurel married a sister of the man killed, it was thought best to send him here for safe keeping. It is Martin's intention to apply for bail under writ of habeas corpus. Mr. Pearl told a reporter that the jail at London was being guarded, under the impression that Wils Howard and his crowd would attempt to rescue Jennings. []---
[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 29, 1891. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1891-05-29/ed-1/seq-1/
[May 29, 1891] -
At this writing Ben Martin's case for killing Tom Hodge is before the court and will be tried, both sides being ready. []---
[] Excerpt from "Personal Points." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 4, 1891. Page 3. LOC.
[December 4, 1891] -
Col. W. O. Bradley is the busiest man in Kentucky. He had to hurry back from Washington to defend Ben Martin, for murder, at London, which trial was called yesterday. The colonel says he might have enjoyed his visit to the capital more, but it got out that he was there and every Kentucky republi- who wants something put him to work. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 26, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[February 26, 1892] -
For some time past a deadly enmity has existed between Mrs. Ben Martin, a sister of the notorious John Proctor, of Mt. Vernon, and Mrs. George Worman, the wife of an engineer. They both live at Needmore and their places adjoin. The warfare till Tuesday had been carried on by the war of mouth, but on that day Mrs. Martin let her angry passions rise a little higher than usual and she took her spite out by throwing rocks at a child of Mrs. Worman, one of which hit and hurt her considerably. A warrant was sworn out against the thrower and she was arrested and brought before Judge Varnon, Wednesday. Mr. Martin was anxious to quiet the unseemly broil and proposed to compromise by paying all the costs, which was accepted and what promised to be a rich, rare and racy trial was denied the court-room full of spectators, who had been drawn thither. []
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1891. Rockcastle. not on timeline
The only trouble in the county on election day was at Crooked Creek precinct where John D. Mullins met his death at the hands of Bill Damerel. It appears that Damerel was drunk and had been noisy around the polls and was displaying his money. Young Mullins, the sheriff of the election, spoke to Damerel and requested him to settle an old debt due Mullins, whereupon Damerel flew into a passion and replied that he would whip out the amount with Mullins. Later when Damerel was flourishing a pistol and making a noise around the polls, Mullins asked him to be quiet. Damerel replied that he would "burn it off in his face." Damerel was persuaded to leave, but before starting away it is said he remarked that he would kill some one before he left the place. He with Jones Durham went to where their horses were hitched and after mounting both began firing their pistols. After the fifth shot young Mullins, who was sitting inside the house where the voting was going on, leaning his head over on one hand was seen to fail from his chair a corpse. Damerel and Durham put spurs to their horses and fled. Several parties pursued them, but others on foot cut across a mountain and headed them off and captured them, bringing them on here to jail that night. Mullins was shot in the center of the nose, the ball passing to the back of the neck and ranged downward, producing instant death. Witnesses say that Durham pointed his pistol downward when he was shooting, and that Damerel took deliberate aim at his victim. Damerel says that he don't know that he shot Mullins, but that if he did it was accidental. The examination trial is set for Friday, when it is thought Durham will be released. Considerable feeling exists int he whole eastern portion of the county over the tragic death of young Mullins, as he was a very popular man and highly esteemed by everyone and a useful citizen. Damerel is not a native of the county but is from East Tennessee, and has been here but a few years. []
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[] Excerpt from "Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County." Semi-weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 13, 1892. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-09-13/ed-1/seq-1/
[September 13, 1892] -
The testimony and speeches were finished Saturday at noon in the Dameron case and was then given to the jury, which returned a verdict after five hours consultation, finding the defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter and fixing his punishment at two years in the "pen." []
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[] Excerpt from "Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County." Semi-weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 23, 1892. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-09-23/ed-1/seq-5/
[September 23, 1892] -
Bill Damerel, who got two years at last term of court, was taken to Frankfort last Thursday. Fain, who was given 17 years for killing Jesse Hilton, has taken an appeal. []
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1891. Laurel. not on timeline
There was a shooting scrape at Pittsburg Saturday night between Deputy Town-Marshal George Gragg and Bill Miller, of that place, in which Miller was slightly wounded in three places. Particulars could not be obtained. []
George Gragg, formerly of this county, was lodged in jail here Sunday by Sheriff Moren, of Laurel, for safe keeping. He is charged with murder, committed about eight months ago, and since then has been under bail of $3,000. His bondsmen surrendered him at the present term of the circuit court and the case not being ready for trial, he will probably lay in jail here till the fall term. It is suspicioned that the reason he was surrendered was that Gragg hoped to be placed in the London jail from which he could be easily released by his Jellico friends. []
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1891. Pulaski. not on timeline
1891. Rockcastle. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 7, 1891. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1891-08-07/ed-1/seq-3/
[August 7, 1891] -
The only trouble in the county on election day was at Crooked Creek precinct where John D. Mullins met his death at the hands of Bill Damerel. It appears that Damerel was drunk and had been noisy around the polls and was displaying his money. Young Mullins, the sheriff of the election, spoke to Damerel and requested him to settle an old debt due Mullins, whereupon Damerel flew into a passion and replied that he would whip out the amount with Mullins. Later when Damerel was flourishing a pistol and making a noise around the polls, Mullins asked him to be quiet. Damerel replied that he would "burn it off in his face." Damerel was persuaded to leave, but before starting away it is said he remarked that he would kill some one before he left the place. He with Jones Durham went to where their horses were hitched and after mounting both began firing their pistols. After the fifth shot young Mullins, who was sitting inside the house where the voting was going on, leaning his head over on one hand was seen to fail from his chair a corpse. Damerel and Durham put spurs to their horses and fled. Several parties pursued them, but others on foot cut across a mountain and headed them off and captured them, bringing them on here to jail that night. Mullins was shot in the center of the nose, the ball passing to the back of the neck and ranged downward, producing instant death. Witnesses say that Durham pointed his pistol downward when he was shooting, and that Damerel took deliberate aim at his victim. Damerel says that he don't know that he shot Mullins, but that if he did it was accidental. The examination trial is set for Friday, when it is thought Durham will be released. Considerable feeling exists int he whole eastern portion of the county over the tragic death of young Mullins, as he was a very popular man and highly esteemed by everyone and a useful citizen. Damerel is not a native of the county but is from East Tennessee, and has been here but a few years. []---
[] Excerpt from "Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County." Semi-weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 13, 1892. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-09-13/ed-1/seq-1/
[September 13, 1892] -
The testimony and speeches were finished Saturday at noon in the Dameron case and was then given to the jury, which returned a verdict after five hours consultation, finding the defendant guilty of voluntary manslaughter and fixing his punishment at two years in the "pen." []---
[] Excerpt from "Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County." Semi-weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 23, 1892. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-09-23/ed-1/seq-5/
[September 23, 1892] -
Bill Damerel, who got two years at last term of court, was taken to Frankfort last Thursday. Fain, who was given 17 years for killing Jesse Hilton, has taken an appeal. []1891. Laurel. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 25, 1891. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1891-08-25/ed-1/seq-2/
[August 25, 1891] -
There was a shooting scrape at Pittsburg Saturday night between Deputy Town-Marshal George Gragg and Bill Miller, of that place, in which Miller was slightly wounded in three places. Particulars could not be obtained. []
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[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 28, 1891. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1891-08-28/ed-1/seq-1/
[August 28, 1891] -
Bill Miller, who was shot by Geo. Gragg Saturday night at Pittsburg, died Monday morning. The wounds were supposed to be slight at the time of the shooting. []
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[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 27, 1891. Page 1. LOC.
[November 27, 1891] -
The grand jury indicted George Gragg for murder in the killing of Bob Miller, at Pittsburg, and his bond was fixed at $3,000. []
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[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 27, 1891. Page 1. LOC.
[November 27, 1891] -
The grand jury indicted George Gragg for murder in the killing of Bob Miller, at Pittsburg, and his bond was fixed at $3,000. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 24, 1892. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-05-24/ed-1/seq-3/
[May 24, 1892] -
George Gragg, formerly of this county, was lodged in jail here Sunday by Sheriff Moren, of Laurel, for safe keeping. He is charged with murder, committed about eight months ago, and since then has been under bail of $3,000. His bondsmen surrendered him at the present term of the circuit court and the case not being ready for trial, he will probably lay in jail here till the fall term. It is suspicioned that the reason he was surrendered was that Gragg hoped to be placed in the London jail from which he could be easily released by his Jellico friends. []
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[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 10, 1893. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-10-10/ed-1/seq-1/
[October 10, 1893] -
George Gragg, for killing Wm. Miller at Pittsburg, was given 21 years. Gragg was deputy town marshal at the time of the killing. []
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[] Excerpt from "News of the Vicinage." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 12, 1898. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1898-04-12/ed-1/seq-1/
[April 12, 1898] -
Hamp Gragg, a brother of Craig and George Gragg, who were sent to the penitentiary from Laurel for murder, shot and seriously wounded James Ellison at Pittsburg, and is now in jail at London. []
1891. Pulaski. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 22, 1891. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1891-09-22/ed-1/seq-3/
[September 22, 1891] -
If the reports, which come from Somerset about the killing of Engineer John White of the C. S., by John Catron, a saloon keeper, be true, Judge Lynch might with much propriety resume his operations there. With no apparent provocation whatever, he struck his victim with a stick, knocking him down, and drawing a pistol, shot him as he lay on the floor. The only excuse given for the crime is that Catron was drunk. []
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[] Excerpt from "Our State." Kentucky Advocate, Danville, KY. September 22, 1891. Page 1. Newspapers.com.
[September 22, 1891] -
At Somerset Friday morning, John White, a respectable man, engineer on the Cincinnati Southern railroad, was shot and killed by John Catron, a saloon keeper, who was drunk. Catron knocked White down and shot him three times while prostrate. White leaves a wife and children residing in Ohio. []---
[] "Brutally Murdered." The Crittenden Press, Marion, KY. September 24, 1891. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069457/1891-09-24/ed-1/seq-1/
2nd col
[September 24, 1891] -
BRUTALLY MURDERED.
A Cincinnati Southern Engineer Shot to Death by a Saloon Keeper.
LEXINGTON, Ky., Sept. 21.-- Another brutal murder was committed in Somerset Friday morning, about 1 o'clock. At that hour John White, a well known and highly respected engineer on the second division of the Cincinnati Southern railroad, entered a grocery store in Somerset to pay a bill of $5.15 that he owed the proprietor. In the store was John Catron, a saloon keeper, of Somerset, who was drunk. He made some insulting remark to White, who resented the same. He then picked up a stick, and struck White a terrible blow, felling him to the floor. He then drew his pistol, and while the unfortunate man was on the floor, shot him three times, producing fatal wounds, from which he died three hours afterwards. White leaves a wife and children, who live in Ohio. []
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1891. Lincoln. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 25, 1891. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1891-09-25/ed-1/seq-3/
[September 25, 1891] -
A dispatch to the Courier-Journal from Crab Orchard says: Two neighboring youths, Frank Bastin and Joe Henry, aged respectively 12 and 19, while on their way to church at Highland became involved in a quarrel as to which should have the empty pint bottle which they had just drained of its liquor, and Bastin drew his pocket-knife and plunged it up to the handle in his companion's side. Henry, it is thought, will die. []
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1891. Pulaski. not on timeline
[] "Acted in Self-Defense." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. December 11, 1891. Page 1. Newspapers.com.
[December 11, 1891] -
Somerset, Ky., Dec. 10. -- (Special.) -- Thos. Candler, of this place, was given a preliminary hearing to-day in Judge Denton's court for the killing, last month, of J. P. Brewer, in a saloon fight. After examining thirty witnesses, the court released Candler, as he was justified in his act. []
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1892? Avery, Irving, and John Williams and Robert Lovall, Sam Hancock. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "Somerset." The Kentucky Advocate, Danville, KY. October 18, 1892. Page 1. Newspapers.com.
[October 18, 1892] -
Avery, Irving, and John Williams and Robert Lovall, charged with killing Sam Hancock, were acquitted. []
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1892. Casey. not on timeline
[] "Bloody Work in Casey." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 5, 1892. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-02-05/ed-1/seq-5/
[February 5, 1892] -
MIDDLEBURG, Feb. 4. -- Last Sunday morning, about two miles from Dunnvile, on Goose Creek, near a still-house, there was a scene of bloodshed and murder. Several had gathered there during the time a quarrel ensued between Curd Williams and one McDaniel, when pistol shots were exchanged between them. Williams shot at McDaniel and missing him shot Charley Thomas, a boy of 17, through the bowels, from which he died Sunday night. After shooting Thomas, Williams then shot at McDaniel again, the ball taking effect in McDaniel's jaw, near the mouth, and ranging upward near his ear. McDaniel's brother then rushed up and fired a load of shot in Williams' arm and beat him over the head with a pistol until friends interfered. Williams and McDaniel were both taken to their homes and are now under medical treatment. Thomas, the unfortunate boy, was buried Tuesday morning. []
Whitley. 1892. Jail break. Len Tye / Melda Bryant
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[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 9, 1892. Page 1. LOC.
[December 9, 1892] -
Last Monday morning about 8 o'clock a murder of the foulest character was committed near Kensee Station, two miles this side of Jellico. Miss Melda Bryant, a daughter of Mr. Frank Bryant, was outraged and murdered. Her throat was cut from ear to ear and her brains had been mashed out with a stone. She came to Sexton, the first station this side of Kensee, with her uncle, Joel Bryant, with whom she lived. He took the train to come to Williamsburg and she walked on toward Kensee alone where she was going to stay a few days with some friend. About 9 o'clock her body was found in a culvert, as described above, still warm. The officers were telegraphed for and went and arrested three men, but the evidence all tends to show that they are not the guilty parties. The excitement is very high here and it is probable if the party is caught and identified he will never reach the jail. Miss Bryant had just passed where Mrs. Rose was washing when a mulatto man came along, going in the same direction, and lit his pipe and the same pipe was found near the body. Mrs. Rose says she can identify the man if she can see him. []
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[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 16, 1892. Page 1. LOC.
[December 16, 1892] -
The fiend who murdered Miss Bryant has not yet been captured as most people believe. There is one negro still in jail, but the circumstances tend to show that he is not guilty, but place the crime on a negro named Dan Campbell, who is supposed to be still hiding in the mountains near Jellico. There are parties keeping a close lookout for him and the parties of the county and friends of the deceased have offered $400 reward and have petitioned the governor to aid them. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 2. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 16, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[December 16, 1892] -
FOR SAFE KEEPING. -- Marshal W. H. Ross, of Williamsburg, with James Finley, S. T. Lepman and Lowe Cox all armed with revolvers and Winchesters, delivered Len Tye to the jailer here yesterday, by order of Judge Boyd. Tye is charged with the rape and murder of Miss Melda Bryant, near Sexton, Whitley county, and is one of the men who was taken from jail and swung up by a mob, who after returned him to prison, satisfied with his "dying" declaration that he was innocent of the crime. Wednesday night, having secured farther evidence, a mob of 100 went to Williamsburg, but the marshal heard of it and telling Judge Boyd, he was ordered to secure the prisoner and hide out till the train yesterday. After hearing that Judge Boyd had given the order, the mob attempted to make him tell where the negro was, but the judge isn't the kind of a man to be bulldozed, and they took a reluctant leave. In response to our inquiry the negro said that hanging did not hurt much, as he soon last his senses. He protests his innocence and the officers think there is some doubt of his guilt. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 4. The Public Ledger, Maysville, KY. December 17, 1892. Page 1. Newspapers.com.
[December 17, 1892] -
The Governor offers $200 reward for the murderers of Melda Bryant in Whitley county. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 2. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 20, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[December 20, 1892] -
TYE SHIPPED OFF. -- Divers and sundry rumors reac[h]ing to the ears of Judge W. E. Varnon that a mob from Whitley county was coming here Saturday night to hang Len Tye, the negro charged with criminally assaulting and murdering Miss Bryant near Jellico, and sent here for safe keeping, he very promptly and properly ordered him to be taken to the Harrodsburg jail, which was done at once by Sheriff J. N. Menefee and I. M. Bruce. Judge Varnon preferred this course to having a guard placed over the jail, preventing bloodshed had an attempt been made to take the prisoner, and he is to be commended for it. There is no proof of the negro's guilt and even if there was, the people of Lincoln do not want any exhibition of Judge Lynch's administration of law, especially by people of another county. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 3. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 23, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[December 23, 1892] -
Several suspicious looking characters were here the first of the week looking around the jail and apparently trying to find out something. It was supposed that they were the advance guard of the mob to hang Len Tye, the Whitley county negro charged with murdering Miss Bryant, after criminally assaulting her, but when they found that he had been spirited away to Harrodsburg they took their leave. They seem to have gone on to that place
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[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley County, KY." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 30, 1892. Page 1. LOC.
[December 30, 1892] -
On last Monday afternoon
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[] Excerpt from "Top Drawer." The Frankfort Roundabout, Frankfort, KY. January 14, 1893. Page 2. Newspapers.com.
[January 14, 1893] -
PRISONER REMOVED. -- The Sheriff, of Whitley, came to the city Tuesday and took from the [Frankfort] jail Len Tye, colored, who criminally assaulted a Miss Bryant, of Williamsburg, and was brought here last month to avoid a mob which pursued the prisoner from Williamsburg, thence to Somerset and Harrodsburg. Tye will now stand trial in Whitley county at the present term of the court. []
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[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 20, 1893. Page 1. LOC.
[January 20, 1893] -
Len Tyle, the negro accused of the murder of Miss Bryant, is back here [Williamsburg] in jail. The feeling has subsided and the commonwealth wanted him here to testify before the grand jury. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 27, 1893. Page 5. LOC.
[January 27, 1893] -
The negro Len Tye, who was brought here to prevent a mob from hanging him for the murder of Miss Bryant, in Whitley county, has been indicted for the offense. A white man named Paxton was also indicted. []
Len Tye, the negro charged with the assault and murder of Miss Bryant, in Whitley, has proved before a jury of the vicinage that he did not commit the crime, so we learn from a dispatch from Walker Mason, Esq., our attentive Williamsburg correspondent. The danger of mobs hanging innocent people is shown in this case. Tye was taken from the jail and hung up till life was nearly extinct and on his still protesting his innocence he was returned to jail. Afterwards the mob thought it had obtained additional evidence and it being rumored that they would again take Tye from jail, he was ordered here for safe keeping. He staid in jail a day or two and reports reaching Judge Varnon that a mob would come down here for him, he was ordered to the jail at Harrodsburg. Suspicious characters followed him to that town and Judge Hughes, to be on the safe side, sent the negro to the Frankfort jail. After all this the negro is returned to the scene of her crime and acquitted. Lynch law is very dangerous to fool with and ought never to be resorted to until all other means have failed. []
The readers of the I. J. may be glad to know some of the facts in the Len Tye case, as there has been so much talk about it. Tye left Mt. Ash, a station 3 miles north of where the murder was committed, and started south about the same time Miss Bryant started from Saxton, one mile north of where she was killed. Mr. Massingail saw Miss Bryant within 300 yards of where she was killed. He traveled north on the wagon road about 1/2 mile and met two Perkins children going south, who got on the railroad near where he saw Miss Bryant, and Tye was behind these children, making him at least a mile behind Miss Bryant, so he could not possibly have committed the murder. From the proof that was brought out it looks very much as if Paxton was too far on the other side of the place to have gotten there in time to commit the deed. []
HUNG. -- Joe Payne, a Jellico negro, made a criminal assault on Miss Nannie Cecil, a respectable white girl of that place, but he will never do it any more. A mob took him and broke his neck on Saturday night. Before being strung up he confessed his crime and prayed with the fervency such an occasion would naturally produce. He also gave the names of the brutes who outraged and murdered Miss Mildred Bryant. Three persons are implicated, including Len Tye, who was recently acquitted of the crime, and it is said that a mob will again present him with a hempen necklace, the next time for keeps. He was swung up once before, but let down on his protestation of innocence. []
[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 20, 1893. Page 1. LOC.
[January 20, 1893] -
Circuit court is now in session and Judge Morrow is pushing business as rapidly as possible. Wesley Woods one year to the penitentiary for stealing money; James McPherson one year for false swearing and David McFarland two years for killing Davis Hash. Ellen McFarland is now on trial for same offense. []
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[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 10, 1893. Page 1. LOC.
[March 10, 1893] -
Elihu McFarland and James Griffiths broke jail and escaped one night week. McFarland was awaiting a decision of the Court of Appeals in his case of a life sentence for the murder of David Hush. Griffiths was in jail on charge of house-breaking. It is said that William McGraw, who is here from Harlan county charged with the murder of James Middleton, could have escaped, but he would not go, as he said he had not done anything and he would not run off. []
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The Senate Committee on Claims rejected the bill allowing a reward of $250 to Sheriff Moore, of Whitley county, for arresting Montgomery Main, charge with murder, and the memorial of W. M. Howard, of Lincoln, asking that a reward of $500 be allowed him for arresting Wm. Donigan, charged with murder. Mr. Howard claims that he spent in arresting Donigan $174.75. The rewards had been offered for the arrest and conviction of the parties named and were not allowed because Main was not convicted and Donigan broke jail and escaped. []
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1892. Laurel. not on timeline
Detective Anderson, of Somerset, arrived here Sunday evening with the notorious Craig Gragg, who has several times escaped from the jail here. He told the writer he did not expect to be in jail longer than a week this time at the fartherest. []
Five prisoners, led by the notorious Craig Gragg, escaped from the London jail Monday night by prizing out a cross bar of the cage. The following are the names of the parties: Craig Gragg, for robbing the Pittsburgh depot; Enoch Boone, for seducing a girl under 16; Wm. Osby, carrying a pistol; John Parrot and Larkin Cress for selling liquor. Cy Ping, in for selling liquor, got out at the same holes Tuesday night while Jailer Lovell was out hunting the other prisoners. They had smuggled in a crow-bar about 5 1/2 feet long with which they did their work and which they took with them. Craig Gragg is as hard to catch and harder to hold than a flea. []
John Warren was arrested and put in jail last Wednesday, charged with stealing a mule and two hams from some parties near Pittsburgh, and was caught with both in his possession. It is thought he had no intention of keeping the mule, but had taken it to carry the hams home as he lived near. Friday he succeeded in picking a lock in the corridor, next to the sleeping cell that Craig Gragg and others got out of and escaped through the same holes. Dick Harbin and Rowan Hardin gave him a foot race, while Simp Stanifer, who had a horse hitched convenient, also gave him a chase and the trio succeeded in capturing him before he got to the top of cemetery hill and he has since been confined in a sleeping cell. It has been several days since the jail was broken open, and yet the bars have not been mended and even the bricks on the outside wall have not been put in. Both the jailer and the county judge are personal friends of the writer, but that don't keep me from saying that it shows a most willful neglect of duty in not making these necessary repairs. []
Another Gragg has been placed in jail to keep the other one's company. Craig Gragg was delivered to Jailer Owens Friday night by Sheriff Moren, of Laurel, charged with robbing the depot at London and malicious wounding. Gragg was originally from this [Lincoln] county and his character does not seem to have improved since he left it, when it was bad enough. He has broken out of the London jail, or been let out, four times. []
That bad Craig Gragg was sent to the penitentiary for one year at the late circuit court for house breaking. []
Craig Gragg, who about two months ago returned from a two-years imprisonment in the penitentiary at Frankfort for manslaughter, was shot and mortally wounded in a saloon near Pittsburg by James Smallwood. He was shot in the bowels and died next morning. []
Craig Gragg is not dead by a great big lots. Although there is a bullet hole clear through his body, he was on the streets of Pittsburg Saturday. When a doctor told him he was certain to die, he replied with the assertion that he "was not going to do any such a blank, blank thing." []
A dispatch from London says that Mrs. Frances Gragg, offers $25 to any man who will arrest her husband, Craig Gragg, a noted criminal. He beat her up and ran away from their home, at Pittsburg. Marshal E. B. Moren and his friend, John Harkleroad, tried to earn the $25, but Gragg got the drop on them with a 45-caliber Colt and made them hunt the high brush. The woman met Gragg while she was visiting the jail one day and fell in love with him. She put up $600 cash as a bond and married him. []
Deputy Marshall G. C. Thompson has captured Craig Gragg, wanted in London, on felony charges. Gragg has served two terms, is desperate and showed fight. If convicted he will go to the penitentiary for life. []
1892. Laurel. murder case?
[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 18, 1892. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-03-18/ed-1/seq-2/
[March 18, 1892] -
George C. Thompson, who has been confined in jail here since last circuit court awaiting the action of the court of appeals in his case, in which he was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, has had his case reversed again and will in a few days be a free man again, until next circuit court anyway. There will be no trouble for him to give any amount of bond required. []
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1892. Pulaski. not on timeline
[] "A $3 Murder." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. March 26, 1892. Page 2. Newspapers.com.
[March 26, 1892] -
Somerset, Ky., March 25. -- (Special.) -- Jesse Davies was shot and killed by Robert Eldridge, a butcher in the store of B. V. Grinstead, at 5:30 o'clock this afternoon. Eldridge walked in and bought a plug of tobacco. He met Davies near the front and they began to quarrel. Suddenly Eldridge drew a pistol and fired four times at Davies, who fell to the floor, where he died almost immediately.
Three of the four shots struck him, one in the wrist, one in the temple, and the last, which was fired after he fell, penetrated to the heart. Doctors Perkins and Owens were called, but when they arrived Davies was dead. Davies and Eldridge have had trouble over a meat bill of $3, and it was that which caused the killing. Davies had no regular employment, but worked at odd jobs. He was shiftless, but not of a quarrelsome disposition.
The victim was thirty years of age and the son of D. A. Davies, a prominent pension attorney of this place. He leaves a wife and four small children in poor circumstances. Eldridge is a son-in-law of his business partner, John Babbitt, and has only resided at this place about six months, having come from the Flat Lick country, nine miles east of this place. Eldridge has been looked upon as a hot tempered, dangerous man, but this is the first trouble he has ever been connected with. He is about thirty years of age, is married and has two small children. []
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[] "Indicted for Manslaughter." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. April 27, 1892. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[April 27, 1892] -
Somerset, Ky., April 26. -- (Special.) -- The grand jury to-day found a true bill against Robert Eldridge for manslaughter. Eldridge shot and killed Jesse Davis at this place May 8, over a dispute about a meat bill. Eldridge's trial is set for Wednesday. []
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1892. Pulaski. not on timeline
[] "A Murderer Brought Back." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. June 1, 1892. Page 5. Newspapers.com.
[June 1, 1892] -
Somerset, Ky., May 31. -- (Special.) -- T. R. Griffin, railroad detective for the Cincinnati Southern railroad at this place, arrived here to-day with Yellow Hammer, alias Charles Aklen, one of the most desperate negro characters in this part of Kentucky. Aklen was captured at Kingston, Tenn. He is brought back for the murder of Hiram Taylor, last February, at tunnel, No. 7, a few miles below this place. []
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[] Excerpt from "Newsy Notes." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 3, 1892. Page 4. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-06-03/ed-1/seq-4/
Charles Atkin, who is wanted at Somerset for the murder of Hiram Taylor, has been arrested in Tennessee and taken back to Somerset. []
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1892. Lincoln. not on timeline.
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 31, 1892. Page 3. LOC.
[May 31, 1892] -
MURDER. -- West King killed Frank Fish, another negro, at Crab Orchard, Saturday evening, and was lodged in jail here by Marshal Payne. The two men had been enemies for some time and when they met in town Saturday Fish began to abuse King, who said he wasn't armed, but would get a pistol and fight it out with him. With malice and murder rankling in his heart, he walked out to his home, 1 1/2 miles away, and securing his pistol went back to town and sought Fish. They met on the street and he opened fire on Fish, who could not get his pistol to work. Only one of King's five shots took effect and that struck Fish in the region of the heart. The dying man grappled with his adversary, but his strength was gone and he fell forward dead. The examining trial is set before Judge Varnon at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 3, 1892. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-06-03/ed-1/seq-5/
[June 3, 1892] -
WAIVED. -- West King, who killed Frank Fish at Crab Orchard, waived an examination when his case was called Wednesday and he was held in $1,500 bail to circuit court. Of course he will not be able to give it. The mitigating circumstances are that Fish drew a pistol on him in the afternoon and when King told him he was not armed, said: "Go and arm yourself, I intend to kill you." King went home and got his pistol and returning told Fish he was ready for him, at the same time opening fire. Fish's pistol wouldn't work and King got in his work on the fifth fire. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 4. The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 21, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[October 21, 1892] -
The grand jury has returned but five indictments to this time -- three against the negroes who shot J. L. Yantis and one each for murder against West King, for killing Frank Fish, and Wm. Pleasants for killing Alex Williams. []
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same?? related??
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 6, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-10-06/ed-1/seq-3/
[October 6, 1896] -
DISCHARGED. -- Elijah L. King for the murder of Ab Fish at a box party near Crab Orchard, an account of which we published at the time, was tried before Squire Dawson, "deputy county judge," Friday and acquitted. The proof was that Fish behaved very badly and that when King attempted to quiet him and put him out, he cut at him in a most vicious manner, cutting his clothes several times, but doing no serious damage. King then jerked up a fence stake and struck the blow that produced death. There were many witnesses and four speeches; Messrs. C. C. & R. G. Williams, both making excellent efforts for the defense, while Hon. F. F. Bobbitt and County Attorney J. B. Paxton made vigorous speeches for the Commonwealth. []
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Pleasants / Williams. Lincoln. 1892. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from Column 4. The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 21, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[October 21, 1892] -
The grand jury has returned but five indictments to this time -- three against the negroes who shot J. L. Yantis and one each for murder against West King, for killing Frank Fish, and Wm. Pleasants for killing Alex Williams. []
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Caused by an Ancient Grudge.
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[] Excerpt from "Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 13, 1892. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-09-13/ed-1/seq-1/
[September 13, 1892] -
Mr. Bruce Wilmot died at Brodhead Friday morning from the effects of the gun shot wound received at the hands of Joe Howard. He was buried Saturday by the Masons. He was popular throughout the county and his death is deeply deplored by every one. It was one of the longest funeral processions ever seen hereabouts. []
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1891. Lincoln. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 25, 1891. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1891-09-25/ed-1/seq-3/
[September 25, 1891] -
A dispatch to the Courier-Journal from Crab Orchard says: Two neighboring youths, Frank Bastin and Joe Henry, aged respectively 12 and 19, while on their way to church at Highland became involved in a quarrel as to which should have the empty pint bottle which they had just drained of its liquor, and Bastin drew his pocket-knife and plunged it up to the handle in his companion's side. Henry, it is thought, will die. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1891. Pulaski. not on timeline
[] "Acted in Self-Defense." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. December 11, 1891. Page 1. Newspapers.com.
[December 11, 1891] -
Acted in Self-Defense.
Somerset, Ky., Dec. 10. -- (Special.) -- Thos. Candler, of this place, was given a preliminary hearing to-day in Judge Denton's court for the killing, last month, of J. P. Brewer, in a saloon fight. After examining thirty witnesses, the court released Candler, as he was justified in his act. []
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1892? Avery, Irving, and John Williams and Robert Lovall, Sam Hancock. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "Somerset." The Kentucky Advocate, Danville, KY. October 18, 1892. Page 1. Newspapers.com.
[October 18, 1892] -
Avery, Irving, and John Williams and Robert Lovall, charged with killing Sam Hancock, were acquitted. []1892. Casey. not on timeline
[February 5, 1892] -
BLOODY WORK IN CASEY.
One Person Killed and Two Wounded.
MIDDLEBURG, Feb. 4. -- Last Sunday morning, about two miles from Dunnvile, on Goose Creek, near a still-house, there was a scene of bloodshed and murder. Several had gathered there during the time a quarrel ensued between Curd Williams and one McDaniel, when pistol shots were exchanged between them. Williams shot at McDaniel and missing him shot Charley Thomas, a boy of 17, through the bowels, from which he died Sunday night. After shooting Thomas, Williams then shot at McDaniel again, the ball taking effect in McDaniel's jaw, near the mouth, and ranging upward near his ear. McDaniel's brother then rushed up and fired a load of shot in Williams' arm and beat him over the head with a pistol until friends interfered. Williams and McDaniel were both taken to their homes and are now under medical treatment. Thomas, the unfortunate boy, was buried Tuesday morning. []
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Whitley. 1892. Jail break. Len Tye / Melda Bryant
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[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 9, 1892. Page 1. LOC.
[December 9, 1892] -
Last Monday morning about 8 o'clock a murder of the foulest character was committed near Kensee Station, two miles this side of Jellico. Miss Melda Bryant, a daughter of Mr. Frank Bryant, was outraged and murdered. Her throat was cut from ear to ear and her brains had been mashed out with a stone. She came to Sexton, the first station this side of Kensee, with her uncle, Joel Bryant, with whom she lived. He took the train to come to Williamsburg and she walked on toward Kensee alone where she was going to stay a few days with some friend. About 9 o'clock her body was found in a culvert, as described above, still warm. The officers were telegraphed for and went and arrested three men, but the evidence all tends to show that they are not the guilty parties. The excitement is very high here and it is probable if the party is caught and identified he will never reach the jail. Miss Bryant had just passed where Mrs. Rose was washing when a mulatto man came along, going in the same direction, and lit his pipe and the same pipe was found near the body. Mrs. Rose says she can identify the man if she can see him. []---
[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 16, 1892. Page 1. LOC.
[December 16, 1892] -
The fiend who murdered Miss Bryant has not yet been captured as most people believe. There is one negro still in jail, but the circumstances tend to show that he is not guilty, but place the crime on a negro named Dan Campbell, who is supposed to be still hiding in the mountains near Jellico. There are parties keeping a close lookout for him and the parties of the county and friends of the deceased have offered $400 reward and have petitioned the governor to aid them. []---
[] Excerpt from Column 2. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 16, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[December 16, 1892] -
FOR SAFE KEEPING. -- Marshal W. H. Ross, of Williamsburg, with James Finley, S. T. Lepman and Lowe Cox all armed with revolvers and Winchesters, delivered Len Tye to the jailer here yesterday, by order of Judge Boyd. Tye is charged with the rape and murder of Miss Melda Bryant, near Sexton, Whitley county, and is one of the men who was taken from jail and swung up by a mob, who after returned him to prison, satisfied with his "dying" declaration that he was innocent of the crime. Wednesday night, having secured farther evidence, a mob of 100 went to Williamsburg, but the marshal heard of it and telling Judge Boyd, he was ordered to secure the prisoner and hide out till the train yesterday. After hearing that Judge Boyd had given the order, the mob attempted to make him tell where the negro was, but the judge isn't the kind of a man to be bulldozed, and they took a reluctant leave. In response to our inquiry the negro said that hanging did not hurt much, as he soon last his senses. He protests his innocence and the officers think there is some doubt of his guilt. []---
[] Excerpt from Column 4. The Public Ledger, Maysville, KY. December 17, 1892. Page 1. Newspapers.com.
[December 17, 1892] -
The Governor offers $200 reward for the murderers of Melda Bryant in Whitley county. []---
[] Excerpt from Column 2. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 20, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[December 20, 1892] -
TYE SHIPPED OFF. -- Divers and sundry rumors reac[h]ing to the ears of Judge W. E. Varnon that a mob from Whitley county was coming here Saturday night to hang Len Tye, the negro charged with criminally assaulting and murdering Miss Bryant near Jellico, and sent here for safe keeping, he very promptly and properly ordered him to be taken to the Harrodsburg jail, which was done at once by Sheriff J. N. Menefee and I. M. Bruce. Judge Varnon preferred this course to having a guard placed over the jail, preventing bloodshed had an attempt been made to take the prisoner, and he is to be commended for it. There is no proof of the negro's guilt and even if there was, the people of Lincoln do not want any exhibition of Judge Lynch's administration of law, especially by people of another county. []---
[] Excerpt from Column 3. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 23, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[December 23, 1892] -
Several suspicious looking characters were here the first of the week looking around the jail and apparently trying to find out something. It was supposed that they were the advance guard of the mob to hang Len Tye, the Whitley county negro charged with murdering Miss Bryant, after criminally assaulting her, but when they found that he had been spirited away to Harrodsburg they took their leave. They seem to have gone on to that place
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[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley County, KY." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 30, 1892. Page 1. LOC.
[December 30, 1892] -
On last Monday afternoon
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[] Excerpt from "Top Drawer." The Frankfort Roundabout, Frankfort, KY. January 14, 1893. Page 2. Newspapers.com.
[January 14, 1893] -
PRISONER REMOVED. -- The Sheriff, of Whitley, came to the city Tuesday and took from the [Frankfort] jail Len Tye, colored, who criminally assaulted a Miss Bryant, of Williamsburg, and was brought here last month to avoid a mob which pursued the prisoner from Williamsburg, thence to Somerset and Harrodsburg. Tye will now stand trial in Whitley county at the present term of the court. []---
[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 20, 1893. Page 1. LOC.
[January 20, 1893] -
Len Tyle, the negro accused of the murder of Miss Bryant, is back here [Williamsburg] in jail. The feeling has subsided and the commonwealth wanted him here to testify before the grand jury. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 27, 1893. Page 5. LOC.
[January 27, 1893] -
The negro Len Tye, who was brought here to prevent a mob from hanging him for the murder of Miss Bryant, in Whitley county, has been indicted for the offense. A white man named Paxton was also indicted. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 2. The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 10, 1893. Page 5. LOC.
[February 10, 1893] -
Len Tye, the negro charged with the assault and murder of Miss Bryant, in Whitley, has proved before a jury of the vicinage that he did not commit the crime, so we learn from a dispatch from Walker Mason, Esq., our attentive Williamsburg correspondent. The danger of mobs hanging innocent people is shown in this case. Tye was taken from the jail and hung up till life was nearly extinct and on his still protesting his innocence he was returned to jail. Afterwards the mob thought it had obtained additional evidence and it being rumored that they would again take Tye from jail, he was ordered here for safe keeping. He staid in jail a day or two and reports reaching Judge Varnon that a mob would come down here for him, he was ordered to the jail at Harrodsburg. Suspicious characters followed him to that town and Judge Hughes, to be on the safe side, sent the negro to the Frankfort jail. After all this the negro is returned to the scene of her crime and acquitted. Lynch law is very dangerous to fool with and ought never to be resorted to until all other means have failed. []
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[] "Tye Untied." The Frankfort Roundabout, Frankfort, KY. February 11, 1893. Page 6. Newspapers.com.
[February 11, 1893] -
Tye Untied.
Len Tye, the negro charged with the murder of Melinda Bryant near Jellico Station, who was brought to this city [Frankfort] and placed in jail for fear of mob violence, was acquitted of the charge at Jellico on Thursday. []
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[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley County." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 17, 1893. Page 1. LOC.
[February 17, 1893] -
The readers of the I. J. may be glad to know some of the facts in the Len Tye case, as there has been so much talk about it. Tye left Mt. Ash, a station 3 miles north of where the murder was committed, and started south about the same time Miss Bryant started from Saxton, one mile north of where she was killed. Mr. Massingail saw Miss Bryant within 300 yards of where she was killed. He traveled north on the wagon road about 1/2 mile and met two Perkins children going south, who got on the railroad near where he saw Miss Bryant, and Tye was behind these children, making him at least a mile behind Miss Bryant, so he could not possibly have committed the murder. From the proof that was brought out it looks very much as if Paxton was too far on the other side of the place to have gotten there in time to commit the deed. []
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[] "Lynched at Jellico." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. February 26, 1893. Page 4. Newspapers.com.
[February 26, 1893] -
LYNCHED AT JELLICO.
Another Negro Brute Swung Up For Assaulting a Young Woman.
Jellico, Tenn., Feb. 25. -- (Special.) -- At 8:15 tonight
LYNCHED AT JELLICO.
Another Negro Brute Swung Up For Assaulting a Young Woman.
Jellico, Tenn., Feb. 25. -- (Special.) -- At 8:15 tonight
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[] "Tame Lynching." The Evening Bulletin, Maysville, KY. February 27, 1893. Page 1. Newspaper.com.
[February 27, 1893] -
TAME LYNCHING.
One Negro Strung Up and Another One Will Soon Meet the Same Fate.
KNOXVILLE, Feb. 27
TAME LYNCHING.
One Negro Strung Up and Another One Will Soon Meet the Same Fate.
KNOXVILLE, Feb. 27
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[] "The Bryant Murder." The Owensboro Messenger, Owensboro, KY. February 28, 1893. Page 1. Newspapers.com.
[February 28, 1893] -
THE BRYANT MURDER.
It Was Committed by Joe Payne, Len Tye and Others.
JELLICO, Tenn., Feb. 27. -- Before being lynched Saturday night for his assault on Miss Nannie Cecil, Joe Payne, colored, confessed that he and three other men, whose names he gave, some months ago criminally assaulted and murdered Mildred Bryant, a white girl.
Two new mobs were organized to lynch Payne's confederates. One of the men implicated is Len Tye
THE BRYANT MURDER.
It Was Committed by Joe Payne, Len Tye and Others.
JELLICO, Tenn., Feb. 27. -- Before being lynched Saturday night for his assault on Miss Nannie Cecil, Joe Payne, colored, confessed that he and three other men, whose names he gave, some months ago criminally assaulted and murdered Mildred Bryant, a white girl.
Two new mobs were organized to lynch Payne's confederates. One of the men implicated is Len Tye
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[] Excerpt from Column 2. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 28, 1893. Page 3. LOC.
[February 28, 1893] -
HUNG. -- Joe Payne, a Jellico negro, made a criminal assault on Miss Nannie Cecil, a respectable white girl of that place, but he will never do it any more. A mob took him and broke his neck on Saturday night. Before being strung up he confessed his crime and prayed with the fervency such an occasion would naturally produce. He also gave the names of the brutes who outraged and murdered Miss Mildred Bryant. Three persons are implicated, including Len Tye, who was recently acquitted of the crime, and it is said that a mob will again present him with a hempen necklace, the next time for keeps. He was swung up once before, but let down on his protestation of innocence. []
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[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 10, 1893. Page 1. LOC.
[March 10, 1893] -
It is the general opinion of the better class of people of Whitley county that a brutal and outrageous murder was committed when the negro Payne was hung near Jellico, charged with a criminal assault upon the person of Miss Cecil, as she has figured in several affairs that has placed her as a suspicious character, and County Attorney Perkins says there was proof to convict him brought out in the examining trial, and that was what the mob had to go on. Mr. Perkins is a man that favors the enforcement of the law and will never agree to let a man go if he believes there is a chance to convict him. []
It is the general opinion of the better class of people of Whitley county that a brutal and outrageous murder was committed when the negro Payne was hung near Jellico, charged with a criminal assault upon the person of Miss Cecil, as she has figured in several affairs that has placed her as a suspicious character, and County Attorney Perkins says there was proof to convict him brought out in the examining trial, and that was what the mob had to go on. Mr. Perkins is a man that favors the enforcement of the law and will never agree to let a man go if he believes there is a chance to convict him. []
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1892? David, Elihu McFarland / Davis Hash/Hush. Whitley. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 20, 1893. Page 1. LOC.
[January 20, 1893] -
Circuit court is now in session and Judge Morrow is pushing business as rapidly as possible. Wesley Woods one year to the penitentiary for stealing money; James McPherson one year for false swearing and David McFarland two years for killing Davis Hash. Ellen McFarland is now on trial for same offense. []---
[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 10, 1893. Page 1. LOC.
[March 10, 1893] -
Elihu McFarland and James Griffiths broke jail and escaped one night week. McFarland was awaiting a decision of the Court of Appeals in his case of a life sentence for the murder of David Hush. Griffiths was in jail on charge of house-breaking. It is said that William McGraw, who is here from Harlan county charged with the murder of James Middleton, could have escaped, but he would not go, as he said he had not done anything and he would not run off. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1892? what county are these?
[] Excerpt from "General Assembly." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 26, 1892. Page 2. LOC.
[February 26, 1892] -
The Senate Committee on Claims rejected the bill allowing a reward of $250 to Sheriff Moore, of Whitley county, for arresting Montgomery Main, charge with murder, and the memorial of W. M. Howard, of Lincoln, asking that a reward of $500 be allowed him for arresting Wm. Donigan, charged with murder. Mr. Howard claims that he spent in arresting Donigan $174.75. The rewards had been offered for the arrest and conviction of the parties named and were not allowed because Main was not convicted and Donigan broke jail and escaped. []1892. Laurel. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 26, 1892. Page 7. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-02-26/ed-1/seq-7/
[February 26, 1892] -
The notorious Craig Gragg is again in jail. He cut a passenger on the train, Sunday evening, near Pittsburg, and he received a flesh wound in the hip from a pistol. The man cut on the train was named Garrard Thompson. Gragg was out on bond for burglary and this episode caused them to give him up. []
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[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 19, 1892. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-04-19/ed-1/seq-1/
[April 19, 1892] -
Detective Anderson, of Somerset, arrived here Sunday evening with the notorious Craig Gragg, who has several times escaped from the jail here. He told the writer he did not expect to be in jail longer than a week this time at the fartherest. []
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[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 6, 1892. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-05-06/ed-1/seq-1/
[May 6, 1892] -
Five prisoners, led by the notorious Craig Gragg, escaped from the London jail Monday night by prizing out a cross bar of the cage. The following are the names of the parties: Craig Gragg, for robbing the Pittsburgh depot; Enoch Boone, for seducing a girl under 16; Wm. Osby, carrying a pistol; John Parrot and Larkin Cress for selling liquor. Cy Ping, in for selling liquor, got out at the same holes Tuesday night while Jailer Lovell was out hunting the other prisoners. They had smuggled in a crow-bar about 5 1/2 feet long with which they did their work and which they took with them. Craig Gragg is as hard to catch and harder to hold than a flea. []
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[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 10, 1892. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-05-10/ed-1/seq-1/
[May 10, 1892] -
John Warren was arrested and put in jail last Wednesday, charged with stealing a mule and two hams from some parties near Pittsburgh, and was caught with both in his possession. It is thought he had no intention of keeping the mule, but had taken it to carry the hams home as he lived near. Friday he succeeded in picking a lock in the corridor, next to the sleeping cell that Craig Gragg and others got out of and escaped through the same holes. Dick Harbin and Rowan Hardin gave him a foot race, while Simp Stanifer, who had a horse hitched convenient, also gave him a chase and the trio succeeded in capturing him before he got to the top of cemetery hill and he has since been confined in a sleeping cell. It has been several days since the jail was broken open, and yet the bars have not been mended and even the bricks on the outside wall have not been put in. Both the jailer and the county judge are personal friends of the writer, but that don't keep me from saying that it shows a most willful neglect of duty in not making these necessary repairs. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 7, 1892. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-06-07/ed-1/seq-3/
[June 7, 1892] -
Another Gragg has been placed in jail to keep the other one's company. Craig Gragg was delivered to Jailer Owens Friday night by Sheriff Moren, of Laurel, charged with robbing the depot at London and malicious wounding. Gragg was originally from this [Lincoln] county and his character does not seem to have improved since he left it, when it was bad enough. He has broken out of the London jail, or been let out, four times. []
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[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 9, 1892. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-12-09/ed-1/seq-1/
[December 9, 1892] -
That bad Craig Gragg was sent to the penitentiary for one year at the late circuit court for house breaking. []
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[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 5, 1893. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-12-05/ed-1/seq-1/
[December 5, 1893] -
Craig Gragg, who about two months ago returned from a two-years imprisonment in the penitentiary at Frankfort for manslaughter, was shot and mortally wounded in a saloon near Pittsburg by James Smallwood. He was shot in the bowels and died next morning. []
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[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 12, 1893. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-12-12/ed-1/seq-1/
[December 12, 1893] -
Craig Gragg is not dead by a great big lots. Although there is a bullet hole clear through his body, he was on the streets of Pittsburg Saturday. When a doctor told him he was certain to die, he replied with the assertion that he "was not going to do any such a blank, blank thing." []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 9, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-10-09/ed-1/seq-5/
[October 9, 1896] -
FOR TRIAL. -- Deputy Sheriff L. B. McHargue and Deputy Jailer E. W. Moren, of London, came down Wednesday and took back with them for trial Craig and Joe Gragg, who have been in jail here for safe-keeping for 117 days. The former is charged with robbery and the latter with seduction. []
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[] Excerpt from "News of the Vicinage." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 12, 1898. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1898-04-12/ed-1/seq-1/
[April 12, 1898] -
Hamp Gragg, a brother of Craig and George Gragg, who were sent to the penitentiary from Laurel for murder, shot and seriously wounded James Ellison at Pittsburg, and is now in jail at London. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 3. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 6, 1899. Page 4. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1899-06-06/ed-1/seq-4/
[June 6, 1899] -
A dispatch from London says that Mrs. Frances Gragg, offers $25 to any man who will arrest her husband, Craig Gragg, a noted criminal. He beat her up and ran away from their home, at Pittsburg. Marshal E. B. Moren and his friend, John Harkleroad, tried to earn the $25, but Gragg got the drop on them with a 45-caliber Colt and made them hunt the high brush. The woman met Gragg while she was visiting the jail one day and fell in love with him. She put up $600 cash as a bond and married him. []
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[] Excerpt from "News of the Vicinage." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 9, 1899. Page 1. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1899-06-09/ed-1/seq-1/
[June 9, 1899] -
Deputy Marshall G. C. Thompson has captured Craig Gragg, wanted in London, on felony charges. Gragg has served two terms, is desperate and showed fight. If convicted he will go to the penitentiary for life. []
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[] Excerpt from "News of the Vicinage." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 11, 1899. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1899-07-11/ed-1/seq-1/
[July 11, 1899] -
Craig Gragg was captured by a sheriff's posse in Laurel. He cut one or two men. []
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[] "A Bad Man." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 18, 1899. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1899-07-18/ed-1/seq-3/
[July 18, 1899] -
A BAD MAN. -- A dispatch from London says Craig Gragg was tried there Friday on several charges. His wife testified against him, told a pitiful story of mistreatment by her husband, and exhibited fearful bruises and wounds on her body that Gragg inflicted two weeks ago. Robert Ridings showed the court ugly gashes in the breast, inflicted by Gragg with a dirk. He testified he didn't know Gragg was mad at him until he was cut. The court held him on various bonds, one for $2,000, to keep the peace. He can't provide bond, and will be sent to Stanford for safe-keeping till the October court.
He was brought here by Sheriff Lee McHargue Sunday and turned over to Jailer DeBord. Gragg is a pretty bad man, judging from his record. It is said that he has served two terms in the penitentiary and the mittimus states that he is held for cutting and wounding with intent to kill for which he is yet to be indicted, that he is already under indictment for housebreaking, for malicious shooting and wounding with intent to kill and for false swearing. There is hardly a doubt that he will go up on one or the other of the charges and then he will cease from troubling. A third sentence to the penitentiary carries a life term with it. Our readers will remember that while he was in jail at London a few months ago, the woman, who now testifies against him, fell in love with him and not only married him but bailed him out of prison. He has led her a merry dance since, though there are those mean enough to say she deserves all the trouble she brought on herself. []
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[] "Five Prisoners Paroled." Lexington Herald, Lexington, KY. August 23, 1925. Page 6. Genealogybank.com.
[August 23, 1925] -
FIVE PRISONERS PAROLED
Given Leave by State Board of Charities and Corrections
[Special to The Herald]
FRANKFORT, Ky., Aug. 22. -- Five reformatory prisoners were paroled today by the state board of charities and corrections, as follows:
John Abbott, of Wayne county, housebreaking, three years, February 1924; Robert Fugate, of Mason county, attempted rape, five to 20 years; October 1913; Craig Gragg, of Whitley county, detaining a female, and previous conviction, life, November 1907; John S. Hall, of Pike county, forgery, four years, June 1923; and W. E. Hawthorne, of Fayette county, obtaining signature of another by false pretenses, five year, June 1920. []
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1892. Laurel. murder case?
[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 18, 1892. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-03-18/ed-1/seq-2/
[March 18, 1892] -
George C. Thompson, who has been confined in jail here since last circuit court awaiting the action of the court of appeals in his case, in which he was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, has had his case reversed again and will in a few days be a free man again, until next circuit court anyway. There will be no trouble for him to give any amount of bond required. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1892. Pulaski. not on timeline
[] "A $3 Murder." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. March 26, 1892. Page 2. Newspapers.com.
[March 26, 1892] -
A $3 Murder.
Robert Eldridge, a Butcher, Kills Jesse Davies At Somerset.
A Small Meat Bill Owed By the Victim Causes the Tragedy.
Somerset, Ky., March 25. -- (Special.) -- Jesse Davies was shot and killed by Robert Eldridge, a butcher in the store of B. V. Grinstead, at 5:30 o'clock this afternoon. Eldridge walked in and bought a plug of tobacco. He met Davies near the front and they began to quarrel. Suddenly Eldridge drew a pistol and fired four times at Davies, who fell to the floor, where he died almost immediately.
Three of the four shots struck him, one in the wrist, one in the temple, and the last, which was fired after he fell, penetrated to the heart. Doctors Perkins and Owens were called, but when they arrived Davies was dead. Davies and Eldridge have had trouble over a meat bill of $3, and it was that which caused the killing. Davies had no regular employment, but worked at odd jobs. He was shiftless, but not of a quarrelsome disposition.
The victim was thirty years of age and the son of D. A. Davies, a prominent pension attorney of this place. He leaves a wife and four small children in poor circumstances. Eldridge is a son-in-law of his business partner, John Babbitt, and has only resided at this place about six months, having come from the Flat Lick country, nine miles east of this place. Eldridge has been looked upon as a hot tempered, dangerous man, but this is the first trouble he has ever been connected with. He is about thirty years of age, is married and has two small children. []
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[] "Jesse Davis Killed." Cincinnati Post, Cincinnati, OH. March 26, 1892. Page 8. Genealogybank.com.
[March 26, 1892] -
Jesse Davis Killed.
SOMERSET, Ky., March 26, -- (Special.) -- Last night Robert Eldridge shot and killed Jesse Davis, son of a well-known pension attorney. Davis was shot in the arm, temple and heart. The trouble occurred in Eldridge's butcher shop over a bill of $8 which Davis owed for meat. After the shooting Eldridge surrendered. []
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[] "Somerset's Last Tragedy." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. March 27, 1892. Page 4. Newspapers.com.
[March 27, 1892] -
Somerset, Ky., March 26. -- (Special.) -- The Coroner's jury, after viewing the remains Jesse Davies, the victim of yesterday's tragedy, returned a verdict on the statement of Eldridge without hearing the testimony that Davies came to his death by a pistol shot fired by Eldridge. The examination trial was set for 3 o'clock this afternoon on before Mayor James L. Colyer, but was postponed on account of the absence of County Judge George Shadoan until Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Large crowds came to town from Eldridge's old neighborhood, and Chief of Police J. C. Anderson and Sheriff L. Denton put extra officers on duty to guard the jail.
Eldridge came to Somerset from the Gilliland vicinity, and while he has not been immediately connected with their misdeeds still he has sympathy from that quarter. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 3. The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 29, 1892. Page 2. LOC.
[March 29, 1892] -
Robert Eldridge shot
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[] "Somerset's Last Tragedy." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. March 27, 1892. Page 4. Newspapers.com.
[March 27, 1892] -
SOMERSET'S LAST TRAGEDY.
A Coroner's Jury Views the Body of Jesse Davies--The Jail Guarded.
Somerset, Ky., March 26. -- (Special.) -- The Coroner's jury, after viewing the remains Jesse Davies, the victim of yesterday's tragedy, returned a verdict on the statement of Eldridge without hearing the testimony that Davies came to his death by a pistol shot fired by Eldridge. The examination trial was set for 3 o'clock this afternoon on before Mayor James L. Colyer, but was postponed on account of the absence of County Judge George Shadoan until Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Large crowds came to town from Eldridge's old neighborhood, and Chief of Police J. C. Anderson and Sheriff L. Denton put extra officers on duty to guard the jail.
Eldridge came to Somerset from the Gilliland vicinity, and while he has not been immediately connected with their misdeeds still he has sympathy from that quarter. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 3. The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 29, 1892. Page 2. LOC.
[March 29, 1892] -
Robert Eldridge shot
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[] Excerpt from "Newsy Notes." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 1, 1892. Page 4. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-04-01/ed-1/seq-4/
[April 1, 1892] -
The examining trial of Robert Eldridge, for the killing of Jesse Davies, was held in Somerset, and Eldridge was held over for the grand jury in $1,000 bond. []
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[] "Indicted for Manslaughter." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. April 27, 1892. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[April 27, 1892] -
Indicted For Manslaughter.
Somerset, Ky., April 26. -- (Special.) -- The grand jury to-day found a true bill against Robert Eldridge for manslaughter. Eldridge shot and killed Jesse Davis at this place May 8, over a dispute about a meat bill. Eldridge's trial is set for Wednesday. []
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1892. Pulaski. not on timeline
[] "A Murderer Brought Back." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. June 1, 1892. Page 5. Newspapers.com.
[June 1, 1892] -
A Murderer Brought Back.
Somerset, Ky., May 31. -- (Special.) -- T. R. Griffin, railroad detective for the Cincinnati Southern railroad at this place, arrived here to-day with Yellow Hammer, alias Charles Aklen, one of the most desperate negro characters in this part of Kentucky. Aklen was captured at Kingston, Tenn. He is brought back for the murder of Hiram Taylor, last February, at tunnel, No. 7, a few miles below this place. []
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[] Excerpt from "Newsy Notes." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 3, 1892. Page 4. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-06-03/ed-1/seq-4/
[June 3, 1892] -
Charles Atkin, who is wanted at Somerset for the murder of Hiram Taylor, has been arrested in Tennessee and taken back to Somerset. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 2. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 4, 1893. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-04-04/ed-1/seq-1/
[April 4, 1893] -
Yellow Hammer Ackles 21 years for the murder of John Taylor by the Somerset court. []
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1892. Lincoln. not on timeline.
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 31, 1892. Page 3. LOC.
[May 31, 1892] -
MURDER. -- West King killed Frank Fish, another negro, at Crab Orchard, Saturday evening, and was lodged in jail here by Marshal Payne. The two men had been enemies for some time and when they met in town Saturday Fish began to abuse King, who said he wasn't armed, but would get a pistol and fight it out with him. With malice and murder rankling in his heart, he walked out to his home, 1 1/2 miles away, and securing his pistol went back to town and sought Fish. They met on the street and he opened fire on Fish, who could not get his pistol to work. Only one of King's five shots took effect and that struck Fish in the region of the heart. The dying man grappled with his adversary, but his strength was gone and he fell forward dead. The examining trial is set before Judge Varnon at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 3, 1892. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-06-03/ed-1/seq-5/
[June 3, 1892] -
WAIVED. -- West King, who killed Frank Fish at Crab Orchard, waived an examination when his case was called Wednesday and he was held in $1,500 bail to circuit court. Of course he will not be able to give it. The mitigating circumstances are that Fish drew a pistol on him in the afternoon and when King told him he was not armed, said: "Go and arm yourself, I intend to kill you." King went home and got his pistol and returning told Fish he was ready for him, at the same time opening fire. Fish's pistol wouldn't work and King got in his work on the fifth fire. []---
[] Excerpt from Column 4. The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 21, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[October 21, 1892] -
The grand jury has returned but five indictments to this time -- three against the negroes who shot J. L. Yantis and one each for murder against West King, for killing Frank Fish, and Wm. Pleasants for killing Alex Williams. []---
same?? related??
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 6, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-10-06/ed-1/seq-3/
[October 6, 1896] -
DISCHARGED. -- Elijah L. King for the murder of Ab Fish at a box party near Crab Orchard, an account of which we published at the time, was tried before Squire Dawson, "deputy county judge," Friday and acquitted. The proof was that Fish behaved very badly and that when King attempted to quiet him and put him out, he cut at him in a most vicious manner, cutting his clothes several times, but doing no serious damage. King then jerked up a fence stake and struck the blow that produced death. There were many witnesses and four speeches; Messrs. C. C. & R. G. Williams, both making excellent efforts for the defense, while Hon. F. F. Bobbitt and County Attorney J. B. Paxton made vigorous speeches for the Commonwealth. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pleasants / Williams. Lincoln. 1892. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from Column 4. The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 21, 1892. Page 5. LOC.
[October 21, 1892] -
The grand jury has returned but five indictments to this time -- three against the negroes who shot J. L. Yantis and one each for murder against West King, for killing Frank Fish, and Wm. Pleasants for killing Alex Williams. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[] "Caused by an Ancient Grudge." Cleveland Leader, Cleveland, OH. October 23, 1892. Page 7. Genealogybank.com.
[October 23, 1892] -
Caused by an Ancient Grudge.
CINCINNATI, October 22. -- An Enquirer special from Somerset, Ky., says that at 10 o'clock this forenoon at Greenwood, Pulaski county, Ky., Jim Patterson and Joe Haines quarreled and resorted at once to firearms. Haines fired the first two shots from his revolver. Both missed Patterson, but one bullet killed a Negro, name unknown, and the other wounded Mr. Weatherford, station agent of the Cincinnati Southern Railway, in the shoulder, but not fatally. Patterson immediately, with one shot from a Winchester rifle, killed Haines and then surrendered to the officers. The result of this is two men killed and one badly wounded. The cause is an ancient grudge. []
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[] "A Peacemaker Killed." Plaindealer, Detroit, MI. October 28, 1892. Page 1. Genealogybank.com.
[October 28, 1892] -
A Peacemaker Killed.
Somerset, Ky., Oct. 22. -- A shooting affray occurred at Greenwood, twelve miles South of the Cumberland river, and which is a considerable mining town, this morning about 10:00 o'clock. Chas. Haynes and Lucien Patterson have had an old grudge at one another for a long time, and this morning they concluded to shoot it out. Haynes drew his pistol and attempted to shoot Patterson, but an Afro-American named John Jewett tried to part them, when he was shot through and through and killed instantly. The agent, Mr. Weatherford, was also accidentally shot in the breast, but his wound is not necessarily fatal and he will recover. Patterson then shot with a Winchester rifle and instantly killed Haynes. It is said that Patterson acted in self-defense. []
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[] Excerpt from "Newsy Notes." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 24, 1894. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1894-04-24/ed-1/seq-2/
[April 24, 1894] -
Lucien Patterson was given two years at Somerset for the murder of Charles Hines at Greenwood. []
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[] Excerpt from "Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 13, 1892. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-09-13/ed-1/seq-1/
[September 13, 1892] -
Mr. Bruce Wilmot died at Brodhead Friday morning from the effects of the gun shot wound received at the hands of Joe Howard. He was buried Saturday by the Masons. He was popular throughout the county and his death is deeply deplored by every one. It was one of the longest funeral processions ever seen hereabouts. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
accidental?
[] Excerpt from "Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 4, 1892. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-11-04/ed-1/seq-2/
[November 4, 1892] -
Monday on Brush creek, this county, Bill Hubbard, while sitting at dinner, was shot and instantly killed. Whether the killing was accidental or not is not known. It is said Dr. Hunly and Tom Bowles were at the house of Hubbard and were drinking and firing off their pistols while sitting out on the porch and a ball from one of their weapons passed through the board partition of the house, striking him in the neck. All are Jackson county men. No arrests. []
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Pulaski
[] Excerpt from "Newsy Notes." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 20, 1892. Page 4. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-12-20/ed-1/seq-4/
[December 20, 1892] -
[December 9, 1892] -
[Laurel County] Grand jury returned 92 indictments, 18 of which were for concealed weapons, 36 for liquor, 4 for grand larceny and one for murder -- Patton Whitley for killing Augustus Fogle, a woman, both colored. [1]
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[April 27, 1894] -
R. C. Scobee, sheriff of Clark county, brought Patton Whitley, colored, here [London] Monday. He killed his wife at East Bernstadt about two years ago. Jas. W. Moran took him to the Stanford jail Tuesday for safe keeping, and says he is the toughest customer he has had in his charge for many years. [2]
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[May 3, 1894] -
A Tough Negro.
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[May 29, 1894] -
There were 71 indictments returned this court, of this number 19 were for concealed weapons and 14 for selling liquor. Indictments for murder were made against Alex and Sim Tuttle, for killing young Williams; Pate Whitley, for killing a colored woman a few years ago; Wm. Stott, for killing John Collins at Lily; Robert Jackson, for killing Ed. Chestnut; Eb. Moran, Sam Warnack and C. Godsey, were indicted for manslaughter. This was for shooting the negro, John Ely, who was trying to make his escape while under arrest. Wm. Harkleroads, Jr., was indicted for manslaughter for shooting Bob Dees, about a year ago. Sam Broughton, of near Hazel Patch, was indicted for incest. The only murder that has been tried this court was against Pate Whitley and he was sent up for 16 years. This is the only conviction. Several visiting attorneys are present. [4]
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[1] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 9, 1892. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-12-09/ed-1/seq-1/
[2] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 27, 1894. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1894-04-27/ed-1/seq-1/
[3] "A Tough Negro." Hazel Green Herald, Hazel Green, KY. May 3, 1894. Page 11. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063242/1894-05-03/ed-1/seq-11/
[4] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 29, 1894. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1894-05-29/ed-1/seq-3/
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Pulaski
[] Excerpt from "Newsy Notes." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 20, 1892. Page 4. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-12-20/ed-1/seq-4/
[December 20, 1892] -
Mrs. Eveline Burdine is in jail at Somerset charged with the murder of Joseph Arthur. She claims that Arthur was attempting to gain admittance to her room and that she killed him in self defense. []
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[Laurel County] Grand jury returned 92 indictments, 18 of which were for concealed weapons, 36 for liquor, 4 for grand larceny and one for murder -- Patton Whitley for killing Augustus Fogle, a woman, both colored. [1]---
[April 27, 1894] -
R. C. Scobee, sheriff of Clark county, brought Patton Whitley, colored, here [London] Monday. He killed his wife at East Bernstadt about two years ago. Jas. W. Moran took him to the Stanford jail Tuesday for safe keeping, and says he is the toughest customer he has had in his charge for many years. [2]---
[May 3, 1894] -
A Tough Negro.
On information from London, Laurel county, Sheriff Scobee and Deputy Stokely went out to Rankin station on the K. C. railroad, Sunday evening, and arrested a negro known here as Jack Williams. His right name is Pate Whitley. About eighteen months ago he killed a negro woman in Laurel county, and has since been a fugitive from justice. He had been in this county about a year. He is a desperate character and was not taken without difficulty. At first he started to run, and the sheriff and his deputy fired eleven shots at him, one ball striking him in the back of the head and glancing upward. The negro fired three or four shots in return without effect, and then surrendered. Sheriff Scobee took him to London Monday. -- Winchester Sun. [3]
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[May 29, 1894] -
There were 71 indictments returned this court, of this number 19 were for concealed weapons and 14 for selling liquor. Indictments for murder were made against Alex and Sim Tuttle, for killing young Williams; Pate Whitley, for killing a colored woman a few years ago; Wm. Stott, for killing John Collins at Lily; Robert Jackson, for killing Ed. Chestnut; Eb. Moran, Sam Warnack and C. Godsey, were indicted for manslaughter. This was for shooting the negro, John Ely, who was trying to make his escape while under arrest. Wm. Harkleroads, Jr., was indicted for manslaughter for shooting Bob Dees, about a year ago. Sam Broughton, of near Hazel Patch, was indicted for incest. The only murder that has been tried this court was against Pate Whitley and he was sent up for 16 years. This is the only conviction. Several visiting attorneys are present. [4] ---
[1] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 9, 1892. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1892-12-09/ed-1/seq-1/
[3] "A Tough Negro." Hazel Green Herald, Hazel Green, KY. May 3, 1894. Page 11. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063242/1894-05-03/ed-1/seq-11/
[4] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 29, 1894. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1894-05-29/ed-1/seq-3/
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[] Excerpt from "Newsy Notes." Semi-weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 27, 1893. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-01-27/ed-1/seq-2/
[January 27, 1893] -
Near Somerset, at the Barren Fork coal mines, John and Jim Ledford shot and killed a negro named Luck Sutton. The shooting was the result of a drunken row. []
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[] Excerpt from "Personal." Daily Public Ledger, Maysville, KY. February 27, 1893. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069117/1893-02-27/ed-1/seq-1/
[February 27, 1893] -
Governor Brown will pay $100 for the arrest of James and John Ledford, who are charged with murder in Pulaski county. []
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Laurel. 1893.
[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 29, 1894. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1894-05-29/ed-1/seq-3/
There were 71 indictments returned this court, of this number 19 were for concealed weapons and 14 for selling liquor. Indictments for murder were made against Alex and Sim Tuttle, for killing young Williams; Pate Whitley, for killing a colored woman a few years ago; Wm. Stott, for killing John Collins at Lily; Robert Jackson, for killing Ed. Chestnut; Eb. Moran, Sam Warnack and C. Godsey, were indicted for manslaughter. This was for shooting the negro, John Ely, who was trying to make his escape while under arrest. Wm. Harkleroads, Jr., was indicted for manslaughter for shooting Bob Dees, about a year ago. Sam Broughton, of near Hazel Patch, was indicted for incest. The only murder that has been tried this court was against Pate Whitley and he was sent up for 16 years. This is the only conviction. Several visiting attorneys are present. []
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Pulaski.
Wm. Neeley, who is in jail at Monticello for house breaking, says he saw Tom Tucker, Sam Young and Mose and Jerry Morrow kill Gilson New and throw his body into the Cumberland river. The murder has been a mystery. Neeley says that New was killed to keep him from implicating Mason and John Johnson for the killing of Joseph Kieth at Greenwood seven months ago, for which John Johnson was sent to the penitentiary for two years and Mason is yet to be tried. []
Thomas Tucker, Sam Young and Mose Morrow, charged with killing Gilson New, were bound over to the grand jury in Pulaski in the sum of $3,000 each. It is alleged that the men were paid $180 to kill New. []
On Trial For His Life.
His Third Trial For Murder.
Laurel. 1893.
[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 29, 1894. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1894-05-29/ed-1/seq-3/
[May 29, 1894] -
There were 71 indictments returned this court, of this number 19 were for concealed weapons and 14 for selling liquor. Indictments for murder were made against Alex and Sim Tuttle, for killing young Williams; Pate Whitley, for killing a colored woman a few years ago; Wm. Stott, for killing John Collins at Lily; Robert Jackson, for killing Ed. Chestnut; Eb. Moran, Sam Warnack and C. Godsey, were indicted for manslaughter. This was for shooting the negro, John Ely, who was trying to make his escape while under arrest. Wm. Harkleroads, Jr., was indicted for manslaughter for shooting Bob Dees, about a year ago. Sam Broughton, of near Hazel Patch, was indicted for incest. The only murder that has been tried this court was against Pate Whitley and he was sent up for 16 years. This is the only conviction. Several visiting attorneys are present. [] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pulaski.
[] "Murder Confessed." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. April 27, 1893. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[April 27, 1893] -
MURDER CONFESSED.
William Neeley Says He and Four Others Killed Gilson New.
Somerset, Ky., April 26. -- (Special.) -- Seven weeks ago the body of Gilson New was found floating in the south fork of the Cumberland river, about twenty-five miles south of this place. The Coroner's inquest brought to light the fact that New had been the victim of foul play, but no clew could be found, and the New murder case was filed away as a mystery which in all probability would never be solved.
Yesterday William Neeley, who resides near where New's body was found, was arrested in Wayne county for breaking into Leo Dolson's store. He was taken to Monticello and placed in the county jail at that place. The arrest was made by Sheriff John Duncan.
Last night Neeley sent for Sheriff Duncan and made a statement to him which, if true, will clear up the mystery surrounding the Gilson New murder. Neeley says that Tom Tucker, Sam Young, Mose and Jerry Morrow and himself killed Nwe and threw the body into the Cumberland river. The statement caused no end of excitement at Monticello and at New's home.
Neeley says that New was killed to keep him from implicating Mason and John Johnson for the killing of Joseph Keith at Greenwood, this county, seven months ago, for which John Johnson was sent to the penitentiary for a term of two years, and Mason is yet to be tried. The case will be thoroughly investigated by the authorities at this place and the criminals brought to justice. The gang is a desperate one. []
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[] Excerpt from "Newsy Notes." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 28, 1893. Page 4. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-04-28/ed-1/seq-4/
[April 28, 1893] -
Wm. Neeley, who is in jail at Monticello for house breaking, says he saw Tom Tucker, Sam Young and Mose and Jerry Morrow kill Gilson New and throw his body into the Cumberland river. The murder has been a mystery. Neeley says that New was killed to keep him from implicating Mason and John Johnson for the killing of Joseph Kieth at Greenwood seven months ago, for which John Johnson was sent to the penitentiary for two years and Mason is yet to be tried. []
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[] Excerpt from "Newsy Notes." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 12, 1893. Page 4. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-05-12/ed-1/seq-4/
[May 12, 1893] -
Thomas Tucker, Sam Young and Mose Morrow, charged with killing Gilson New, were bound over to the grand jury in Pulaski in the sum of $3,000 each. It is alleged that the men were paid $180 to kill New. []
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[] "On Trial For His Life." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. June 30, 1894. Page 2. Newspapers.com.
[June 30, 1894] -
On Trial For His Life.
Somerset, Ky., June 29. -- (Special.) -- Jerry Morrow, charged with killing Jilts New, and throwing his body into the Cumberland river, is now on trial in the Circuit Court. The crime was committed about two years ago, and at the time created no little excitement. Morrow was tried once before, which resulted in a hung jury. Considerable interest is being manifested in the trial. []
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[] "His Third Trial For Murder." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. November 1, 1894. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[November 1, 1894] -
His Third Trial For Murder.
Somerset, Ky., Oct. 31. -- (Special.) -- Jerry Morrow, charged with the murder of Jils New, is on trial at this place. Jils New disappeared some two years ago, and was found about two weeks after his disappearance floating in the Cumberland river. Marks of violence were found on him, and circumstances pointed to Jerry Morrow as his murderer. Morrow was arrested and this is his third trial, the last two juries having failed to agree. Morrow is a notorious character and has been dreaded for many years in his neighborhood. []
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[March 1895] -
Jerry Morrow is killed during an attempted train robbery near Greenwood, KY. See Somerset Mayor T. R. Griffin Helps Foil Train Robbery Attempt, Pulaski, 1895 for more information.
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[] Excerpt from "Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 26, 1893. Page 4. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-05-26/ed-1/seq-4/
[May 26, 1893] -
The case against Robt. Cook, charged with murder was dismissed on peremptory instructions of the judge. It will be remembered that Miss Burnett, of the Scaffold Cane neighborhood, committed suicide about a year since. Young Cook was charged with having furnished her with the poison with which she took her life and a grand jury returned an indictment last September. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[] Excerpt from "." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 23, 1893. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-05-23/ed-1/seq-2/
[May 23, 1893] -
Miss Mary Hardwick, of Science Hill, was shot by unknown parties and placed on a freight train. []
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[] Excerpt from "." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 30, 1893. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-05-30/ed-1/seq-2/
[May 30, 1893] -
Mike Lynch has been named by the coroner's jury at Somerset as the murderer of Mary Hardwick, who was mysteriously shot a week ago. Lynch is a railroad section boss and the woman was of bad reputation. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lincoln. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from Column 4. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 9, 1893. Page 5. LOC.
[June 9, 1893] -
Mack Ferrell was indicted for the murder of Sam Engleman and his trial has been set for the 14th, though it is not likely that it will be tried at this term. []---
[June 16, 1893] -
CIRCUIT COURT. -- The case of Mack Ferrell for the murder of Sam Engleman on the night of May 8th was called Wednesday and both sides being ready, the selection of a jury commenced. The judge had ordered 100 men summoned and they were here almost to a man. Three of the jurors were obtained from the standing jury and after 94 men had been examined as to their qualification, the last of the panel was obtained and it is as follows: Isaac Herrin, J. M. Hubble, Richard Bibb, Gabe Hughes, W. G. Routen, C. F. Epperson, C. C. Bishop, Thomas Best, H. B. Floyd, David Riffle, David Allen, John C. Sudduth.The month's confinement in jail has had no visible effect on the prisoner, who is apparently the most unconcerned man in the court room. He is represented by W. H. Miller, W. G. Welch, T. P. Hill and P. M. McRoberts, while Commonwealth Attorney J. S. Owsley, Jr., is assisted by Senator R. J. Breckinridge, R. C. Warren and J. B. Paxton.
The Commonwealth concluded its testimony in chief by noon yesterday and the court adjourned to join in the exercises in honor of the Mexican veterans. The case presented by the prosecution does not differ materially from that adduced at the examining trial, though the defense claims that it is not near as severe. From Col. Welch's statement, which was a very strong one, the defence will endeavor to prove that the trouble was between John W. Bright and Ferrell and that Ferrell shot Engleman when he rose to take Bright's part, with his hand on a pistol half drawn out. It will remain to be seen whether it can be done or not. The testimony for the defense will likely occupy all of to-day and the arguments will not in all probability begin before to-morrow.
Afterward Ferrell and several witnesses testified in his behalf, but even the prisoner's own testimony was very damaging to him. []
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[] "A Living Death." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 20, 1893. Page 3. LOC.
[June 20, 1893] -
A LIVING DEATH.
Mack Ferrell Condemned to Suffer It for Murdering Sam Engleman.
FOR LIFE. -- To be confined in the penitentiary at hard labor for the rest of his natural life, is what 12 good men and true have pronounced as the penalty for Mack Ferrell shall suffer for the murder of Sam Engleman. After four days' trial, during which every point was contested, the case was given to the jury at 2 P.M. Saturday. It retired at once to a room and within 30 minutes the prisoner heard his doom. His ruddy countenance took on an ashen hue for a moment, but it was soon over and the remarkable self-composure which had characterized him through the trial was again manifested. It is reported that a number of the jury were for inflicting the death penalty, but we were unable to substantiate it. The attorneys for the Commonwealth
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[] "A Living Death." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 20, 1893. Page 3. LOC.
[June 20, 1893] -
A world of fearful warning lies in the fate of Mack Ferrell, now under conviction for life for murder. Born of good parents, favored with
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 23, 1893. Page 5. LOC.
[June 23, 1893] -
"Only for life" Mack Farrell goes to the penitentiary for killing Sam Engleman at a card table in Stanford. Wonder if he is akin to Bob Farrell, who is there for life for killing Calvert, near Maysville? -- Paris Kentuckian. No, sir, his name is Ferrell, not Farrell. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 2. The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 23, 1893. Page 5. LOC.
[June 23, 1893] -
CIRCUIT COURT. -- Judge Saufley very promptly overruled the motion for a new trial for Mack Ferrell, convicted for life for the murder of Sam Engleman, and an appeal was taken to the Court of Appeals, the grounds being that the court erred in permitting testimony of the bad character of Witness Wickersham two years ago, instead of at the present, and in not instructing the jury on that point. The judge will sentence the prisoner according to the verdict and suspend it for 60 days. []
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[June 27, 1893] -
Mack Ferrell was sentenced Saturday. Judge Saufley asked him if he had anything to say why he should not pass sentence and his response was, "I am not satisfied with my trial." The sentence was then passed on him in a few words and was that he be confined at hard labor in the penitentiary for the period of his natural life. It was suspended, however, for 60 days pending an appeal from the lower court, which refused a new trial. There was no appreciable change in the prisoner's countenance during the sentence. He either has great hope or does not realize the gravity of his position. []---
[] Excerpt from Column 3. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 27, 1893. Page 3. LOC.
[June 27, 1893] -
Judge Saufley kept his court open yesterday in order to give the counsel in the Ferrell case time to prepare a bill of exceptions that he was willing to sign. His next court is not till the 3d Monday in August. []---
[] Excerpt from Column 2. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 19, 1893. Page 3. LOC.
[September 19, 1893] -
As was expected by those who noticed how Judge Saufley tried to give him the fairest of trials, the court of appeals could find no error upon which to grant Mack Ferrell a new trial or reversal and the sentence of life for the murder of Sam Engleman was affirmed. When told of the action of the court Ferrell showed but little surprise only remarked that fate seemed to be against hi, and that he would buck against it as well as he could. It is horrible to think of so young a man being consigned to such a living death, but the way of transgressors is hard and he who sins must suffer the consequences. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 13, 1893. Page 5. LOC.
[October 13, 1893] -
Sheriff Menefee took Mack Ferrell to the penitentiary Tuesday morning to serve his life sentence. A number of the young man's friends called at the jail and were at the train to tell him good bye and to wish him the best that could be had during the remainder of his sad life. Jailer Owens says he has been a splendid prisoner and gave him little or no trouble during his incarceration. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 27, 1893. Page 5. LOC.
[October 27, 1893] -
Joseph Coffey, proprietor of the Coffey House,
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 17, 1895. Page 7. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1895-12-17/ed-1/seq-7/
[December 17, 1895] -
The Louisville Post says that John Farrell, who killed Sam Engleman in this [Lincoln] county and was sent up for life, was refused a pardon by Gov. Bradley. This is getting things somewhat mixed and may lead people to think that Mack Ferrell is meant, but his brother say that no petition for pardon has been sent to the new governor. [][] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 27, 1893. Page 5. LOC.
Turner Wright Hazel Patch
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[July 4, 1893] -
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[] Excerpt from "." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 7, 1893. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-07-07/ed-1/seq-3/
[July 7, 1893] -
STILL A FUGITIVE. -- Odie Paul, the man who shot Ike Helm at McKinney, an account of which was published in our last issue, is still at large, the efforts of the sheriff and others to apprehend him proving futile. Judge Varnon yesterday applied to the governor to offer a reward for Paul. Perry, who was with Paul at the time of the killing and who is alleged to have fractured Helm's skull with a chair before he was shot, will have his examining trial to-morrow. He is now in jail. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[June 26, 1893] -
TO ANSWER FOR MURDER.
Three Men Held For Killing Andrew Dolson Near Somerset.
Somerset, Ky., June 25. -- (Special.) -- Yesterday before County Judge James Denlin, Seth Mofield, Sanford Orwin and Beinger Dye were held over to the grand jury without bail for the murder of Andrew Dolson, which occurred the 11th inst. John Dye, Fount Mofield Jr., Thomas Mofield, and Elisha Mofield were held over in the sum of $500 bail as accessories to the killing. The accused are charged with calling Andrew Dolson to his door and shooting him down. Dolson resided about eleven miles west of this place, and was a cousin of the accused. The trial yesterday created some excitement, as the accused all bear good reputations. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 3. The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 27, 1893. Page 1. LOC.
[June 27, 1893] -
Three men have been held for the grand jury without bail and four others placed under bond, charged with killing Andrew Dolson in Pulaski county. []---
[] "Lack of Evidence." Cincinnati Post, Cincinnati, OH. November 11, 1893. Page 6. Genealogybank.com.
[November 11, 1893] -
LACK OF EVIDENCE.
Grand Jury Ordered to Ignore a Murder Case.
SOMERSET, KY., Nov 11. -- (Special.) -- In the Circuit Court here this morning Judge Morrow ordered the jury to find Seth Mofield and others not guilty of the murder of Andy Dodson. The evidence was purely circumstantial. []
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Whitley county. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 7, 1893. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-07-07/ed-1/seq-3/
[July 7, 1893] -
ONLY THREE KILLED. -- Whisky and pistols are a bad pair to draw on any occasion, especially on the 4th of July when patriotism and the temperature are both at red heat. At a celebration near Woodbine, Tuesday, John Marsee, James Francis and Dempsey Smith, were killed in a row. Joel Mitchell, who is still thought to have done the killing, is still at large. []
[July 7, 1893] -
ONLY THREE KILLED. -- Whisky and pistols are a bad pair to draw on any occasion, especially on the 4th of July when patriotism and the temperature are both at red heat. At a celebration near Woodbine, Tuesday, John Marsee, James Francis and Dempsey Smith, were killed in a row. Joel Mitchell, who is still thought to have done the killing, is still at large. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 25, 1893. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-08-25/ed-1/seq-5/
[August 25, 1893] -
Robert Eldridge, who shot John Brinkley in the most cowardly manner at the 4th of July picnic near Mt. Vernon, was captured by Sheriff Watson, of Pulaski, but escaped. The dead man was a cousin of M. F. Brinkley, the drummer, who is using every effort to bring Eldridge to justice. []
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 25, 1893. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-08-25/ed-1/seq-5/
[August 25, 1893] -
Robert Eldridge, who shot John Brinkley in the most cowardly manner at the 4th of July picnic near Mt. Vernon, was captured by Sheriff Watson, of Pulaski, but escaped. The dead man was a cousin of M. F. Brinkley, the drummer, who is using every effort to bring Eldridge to justice. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 25, 1893. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-08-25/ed-1/seq-5/
[August 25, 1893] -
Ross Dutton, a bad man from the head waters of Bitter Creek, in Pulaski, was registered at Jailer Owens' hotel Tuesday night. Mr. Dutton was en route to Williamsburg to answer numerous and sundry charges that the grand jury there had seen fit to bring against him. Deputy Sheriff M. E. Barnett kindly came along with Mr. Dutton to keep him company and see that the trip was made in safety. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 25, 1893. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-08-25/ed-1/seq-5/
[August 25, 1893] -
T. S. Farris, deputy sheriff of Garrard, was here Wednesday night to get 50 jurors in the Canon Roberts murder case. It will be remembered that he killed the deputy jailer of Madison when he was after his brother for a misdemeanor. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[] Excerpt from "London, Laurel County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 20, 1893. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-10-20/ed-1/seq-2/
[October 20, 1893] -
W. S. Baxter for killing his uncle, John Baxter, was given 21 years. []
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[] "Jeff Arnold's Wound Proves Fatal." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. October 26, 1893. Page 1. Newspapers.com.
[October 26, 1893] -
Somerset, Ky., Oct. 25. -- (Special.) -- Jeff Arnold, who was shot several days ago by Jim Ramey and Jess Bullock, died at his home, near Line Creek, last night. Ramey gave himself up to the Sheriff at this place today and is at present under guard. Bullock is still at large. The killing was the outcome of a quarrel. []
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[] Excerpt from "." Daily Public Ledger, Maysville, KY. October 27, 1893. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069117/1893-10-27/ed-1/seq-1/
[October 26, 1893] -
Jeff Arnold's Wound Proves Fatal.
Somerset, Ky., Oct. 25. -- (Special.) -- Jeff Arnold, who was shot several days ago by Jim Ramey and Jess Bullock, died at his home, near Line Creek, last night. Ramey gave himself up to the Sheriff at this place today and is at present under guard. Bullock is still at large. The killing was the outcome of a quarrel. []
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[] Excerpt from "." Daily Public Ledger, Maysville, KY. October 27, 1893. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069117/1893-10-27/ed-1/seq-1/
[October 27, 1893] -
Jeff Arnold died from wounds inflicted by James Ramey and Jesse Bullock at his home near Somerset. []
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[] "A Son's Revenge." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. November 28, 1893. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[November 28, 1893] -
Somerset, Ky., Nov. 27. -- (Special.) -- Dolly Maize [Dooly Mize?] and Robert Sears, of Dallas, this county, became involved in a quarrel yesterday, when Maize shot Sears through the brain, inflicting a serious wound, John Sears, a son of Robert Sears, the wounded man, hunted up Maize and shot him, inflicting a flesh wound. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 28, 1893. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-11-28/ed-1/seq-3/
[November 28, 1893] -
A Son's Revenge.
Somerset, Ky., Nov. 27. -- (Special.) -- Dolly Maize [Dooly Mize?] and Robert Sears, of Dallas, this county, became involved in a quarrel yesterday, when Maize shot Sears through the brain, inflicting a serious wound, John Sears, a son of Robert Sears, the wounded man, hunted up Maize and shot him, inflicting a flesh wound. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 28, 1893. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-11-28/ed-1/seq-3/
[November 28, 1893] -
Marshall Newland got a dispatch yesterday from Judge G. W. McClure, county attorney of Rockcastle, to arrest Dooley Mize, 22 years old, 5 feet 8 inches, 135 pounds, light hair and red complexion, on a charge of murder committed in Pulaski. The marshal searched all the trains yesterday and kept his eye skinned for the man, but failed to catch him. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[] "Shooting at Somerset." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. October 9, 1893. Page 2. Newspapers.com.
[October 9, 1893] -
Somerset, Ky., Oct. 8. -- (Special.) -- Late last night, as freight train No. 30 was about to start south and while Conductor S. D. Trainham, aged thirty, was checking up his train, James Crews, of this place, an ex-brakeman, entered the caboose and asked Trainham to take a drink, which offer Trainham refused, after which Crews asked Trainham to go with him. This Trainham also refused to do, and Crews drew his pistol and shot Trainham in the abdomen. Trainham was taken to his home, and is hourly expected to die. Crews was at once arrested and lodged in jail.
Trainham came here three years ago from Virginia, about one year ago married a Miss Smith, of this place. They have one child. Crews is a bad man when in liquor, and has been connected with several bad affrays. Crews denies that he purposely shot Trainham, and says it was an accident. His story is not believed. Trainham states that he and Crews have never had any trouble. Trainham is sinking rapidly, and can not survive the night. []
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[] "Jim Crews a Murderer." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. October 10, 1893. Page 5. Newspapers.com.
[October 10, 1893] -
Somerset, Ky., Oct. 9. -- (Special.) -- E. D. Trawham, the freight conductor shot at this place Saturday night by Jim Crews, died late last night from the effect of his wounds. Trawham was very popular here, and his death is regretted. Crews, his slayer, is still in jail at this place. Much indignation is expressed against Crews, who will no doubt be given the limit of the law. []
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[] "Jim Crews Bound Over." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. October 13, 1893. Page 1. Newspapers.com.
[October 13, 1893] -
Somerset, Ky., Oct. 12. -- (Special.) -- Jim Crews, who killed Conductor E. B. Trainham, at this place last Saturday night, was yesterday bound over to appear before the grand jury by Judge James Denton, of this place. []
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[] "Trial of Jim Crews." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. November 14, 1893. Page 5. Newspapers.com.
[November 14, 1893] -
Somerset, Ky., Nov. 13. -- (Special.) -- The trial of Jim Crews for the murder of Ed Trainham is in progress here, and is attracting much attention. Crews shot Trainham in his caboose on the Cincinnati Southern railroad at this place about six weeks ago. Crews' defense is insanity. []
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[] "Jim Crews Escapes the Gallows." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. November 15, 1893. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[November 15, 1893] -
Somerset, Ky., Nov. 14. -- (Special.) -- Jim Crews, who murdered Ed Trainham, was to-day found guilty and sentenced to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. Considering the crime, the sentence is thought to be a light one. []
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[] "Newsy Notes." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 17, 1893. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-11-17/ed-1/seq-2/
[October 9, 1893] -
SHOOTING AT SOMERSET.
Freight Conductor Trainham Mortally Wounded in His Caboose.
Somerset, Ky., Oct. 8. -- (Special.) -- Late last night, as freight train No. 30 was about to start south and while Conductor S. D. Trainham, aged thirty, was checking up his train, James Crews, of this place, an ex-brakeman, entered the caboose and asked Trainham to take a drink, which offer Trainham refused, after which Crews asked Trainham to go with him. This Trainham also refused to do, and Crews drew his pistol and shot Trainham in the abdomen. Trainham was taken to his home, and is hourly expected to die. Crews was at once arrested and lodged in jail.
Trainham came here three years ago from Virginia, about one year ago married a Miss Smith, of this place. They have one child. Crews is a bad man when in liquor, and has been connected with several bad affrays. Crews denies that he purposely shot Trainham, and says it was an accident. His story is not believed. Trainham states that he and Crews have never had any trouble. Trainham is sinking rapidly, and can not survive the night. []
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[] "Jim Crews a Murderer." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. October 10, 1893. Page 5. Newspapers.com.
[October 10, 1893] -
Jim Crews a Murderer.
Somerset, Ky., Oct. 9. -- (Special.) -- E. D. Trawham, the freight conductor shot at this place Saturday night by Jim Crews, died late last night from the effect of his wounds. Trawham was very popular here, and his death is regretted. Crews, his slayer, is still in jail at this place. Much indignation is expressed against Crews, who will no doubt be given the limit of the law. []
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[] "Jim Crews' Victim Buried." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. October 11, 1893. Page 5. Newspapers.com.
[October 11, 1893] -
Jim Crews' Victim Buried.
Somerset, Ky., Oct. 10. -- (Special.) -- The funeral services of E. D. Trainham were held at the Baptist church at this at this place to-day at 3 p.m. His slayer, Jim Crews, is still in jail. The feeling here against Crews is intense. Trainham was buried with Masonic honors, having been a member of that order at this place. []
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[] "Jim Crews Bound Over." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. October 13, 1893. Page 1. Newspapers.com.
[October 13, 1893] -
Jim Crews Bound Over.
Somerset, Ky., Oct. 12. -- (Special.) -- Jim Crews, who killed Conductor E. B. Trainham, at this place last Saturday night, was yesterday bound over to appear before the grand jury by Judge James Denton, of this place. []
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[] "Trial of Jim Crews." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. November 14, 1893. Page 5. Newspapers.com.
[November 14, 1893] -
Trial of Jim Crews.
Somerset, Ky., Nov. 13. -- (Special.) -- The trial of Jim Crews for the murder of Ed Trainham is in progress here, and is attracting much attention. Crews shot Trainham in his caboose on the Cincinnati Southern railroad at this place about six weeks ago. Crews' defense is insanity. []
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[] "Jim Crews Escapes the Gallows." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. November 15, 1893. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[November 15, 1893] -
Jim Crews Escaped the Gallows.
Somerset, Ky., Nov. 14. -- (Special.) -- Jim Crews, who murdered Ed Trainham, was to-day found guilty and sentenced to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. Considering the crime, the sentence is thought to be a light one. []
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[] "Newsy Notes." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 17, 1893. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-11-17/ed-1/seq-2/
[November 17, 1893] -
At Somerset, Jim Crews, for the murder of Ed Trainham, was given 21 years instead of having his neck broken as he deserved. []
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[] Excerpt from "Personal Points." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 29, 1893. Page 5. LOC.
[September 29, 1893] -
Judge T. Z. Morrow was on yesterday's train returning to Somerset from his court at Mt. Vernon. He barely had time to sentence the negroes who killed the peddler, for life, and catch the train, after the verdict was rendered. []
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[] Excerpt from "Personal Points." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 29, 1893. Page 5. LOC.
[September 29, 1893] -
Judge T. Z. Morrow was on yesterday's train returning to Somerset from his court at Mt. Vernon. He barely had time to sentence the negroes who killed the peddler, for life, and catch the train, after the verdict was rendered. []---
[] Excerpt from "." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 28, 1893. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1893-11-28/ed-1/seq-3/
[November 28, 1893] -
Al Berry, the negro the Rockcastle jury let off with a life sentence for robbing and murdering a peddler, who escaped from the penitentiary, was captured in a straw rick and returned to prison. He escaped by scaling the wall and on being asked how he made his way over it, requested that the officers take him out and let him give an exhibition. He was taken to the perpendicular wall and ascended it to the top with the rapidity of a squirrel. The officers of the penitentiary are talking of making Berry a present of a medal. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 27, 1894. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1894-02-27/ed-1/seq-3/
[February 27, 1894] -
The Richmond Register explains why James Todd, who was killed by Aurelius Dunn, went by the name of Brown. With a party from Berea, where he was born, he went to Jackson county and became involved in a difficulty. He was arrested and held to the circuit court, but jumped his bail and skipped to Pine Hill, thence to Somerset and finally located near McKinney, in Lincoln county, where he went by the name of James Brown, and was married under that name to a woman who bore him seven children and with whom he was living at the time of his death. His full name was James Brown Todd. []
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[] "Terrible Charge Against a Farmer." The Public Ledger, Maysville, KY. April 16, 1894. Page 3. LOC.
[April 16, 1894] -
DANVILLE, Ky., April 16. -- John Greenarch, a well-known farmer of Pulaski county, has been arrested and jailed at Jamestown to await trial on the charge of having poisoned his wife in order to be free to marry another woman, with whom he was infatuated. Mrs. Greenarch died several weeks ago without having had medical attention. Suspicion was aroused, the body disinterred, and a post-mortem examination held, which showed unmistakably that the woman had been poisoned. Greenarch ran off with the other woman a few days after his wife's death. []
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[] Excerpt from "Newsy Notes." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 17, 1894. Page 2. LOC.
[April 17, 1894] -
The Columbia Spector says that John Greenarch, of Pulaski, is in jail at Jamestown for poisoning his wife to marry another woman, whom he was eloping with when apprehended. []
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The trial of Bill Newcum for the murder of Mrs. Burk is in progress to day, Thursday. []
Sept. 23, 1894. Lincoln. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 1, 1895. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1895-03-01/ed-1/seq-3/
[March 1, 1895] -
Circuit Court. -- The trial of Will Hale for the murder of George Pennington, for which a jury was being obtained at our last report, began Tuesday morning, the remainder of the jury being obtained out of the 35 men summoned for the purpose. The panel was as follows: John Dinwiddie, Perry White, B. F. Dalton, James G. Gooch, Lee F. Stone, J. T. Jones, Richard Bibb, G. W. Carter, Wm. Stone, W. P. Carson, Sim Perkins and S. M. Helm. The accused was represented by W. H. Miller and Harvey Helm, while J. S. Owsley, Jr., and J. B. Paxton protected the interests of the Commonwealth.
It took until Wednesday afternoon to present all the evidence. The case was tried at the last term of the court and resulted in a hung jury. It will be remembered that the killing occurred on Sunday, Sept. 23, 1894. Pennington was enamored with Mrs. Stamper, a grass widow, and daughter of Wilson Adams. He had been paying her devoted court, much against the wishes of Mr. Adams and when he went to his house on the fatal Sunday morning, he was ordered away by the old man. He left and securing an old gun was returning, when Hale, who is a son-in-law of Adams, intercepted him and shot him after, he claims, Pennington had shot at him twice. Pennington's dying statement was, however, that he told Hale that his gun had gone off accidentally and not to shoot him as he had nothing against him. The intimacy between the dead man and Mrs. Stamper, who is quite fair to look upon, was proved by love letters from her to him, which were of the most gushing and loving nature. In one of them appears this beautiful and ornate couplet:
Sweet is the man who reads these lines,
How I wish all that sweetness was mines.
During the reading of the letters, Mrs. Stamper sat unmoved and with the utmost nonchalance helped Mr. Owsley to decipher the productions.
After each of the lawyers had made speeches, all of which were complimented, that of Mr. Owsley, being especially praised by the family of the dead man, the case was given to the jury at 3:40 yesterday afternoon.
The jury had not agreed at 5 o'clock and Judge Saufley held them till this morning.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hommel's bond for the appearance of her son, Albert Hommel, which was declared forfeited at the last term of the court, was found to be irregular and proceedings against her dismissed. Albert has not yet shown up. The grand jury has adjourned until Monday, without making any of its works public.
Judge R. J. Breckinridge, Danville, Col. W. O. Bradley and Capt. William Herndon, Lancaster, and Casper C. Williams, Mt. Vernon, are among the visiting attorneys. []
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1895. Pulaski? not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 27, 1894. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1894-02-27/ed-1/seq-3/
[February 27, 1894] -
The Richmond Register explains why James Todd, who was killed by Aurelius Dunn, went by the name of Brown. With a party from Berea, where he was born, he went to Jackson county and became involved in a difficulty. He was arrested and held to the circuit court, but jumped his bail and skipped to Pine Hill, thence to Somerset and finally located near McKinney, in Lincoln county, where he went by the name of James Brown, and was married under that name to a woman who bore him seven children and with whom he was living at the time of his death. His full name was James Brown Todd. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[] "Terrible Charge Against a Farmer." The Public Ledger, Maysville, KY. April 16, 1894. Page 3. LOC.
[April 16, 1894] -
Terrible Charge Against a Farmer.
DANVILLE, Ky., April 16. -- John Greenarch, a well-known farmer of Pulaski county, has been arrested and jailed at Jamestown to await trial on the charge of having poisoned his wife in order to be free to marry another woman, with whom he was infatuated. Mrs. Greenarch died several weeks ago without having had medical attention. Suspicion was aroused, the body disinterred, and a post-mortem examination held, which showed unmistakably that the woman had been poisoned. Greenarch ran off with the other woman a few days after his wife's death. []
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[] Excerpt from "Newsy Notes." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 17, 1894. Page 2. LOC.
[April 17, 1894] -
The Columbia Spector says that John Greenarch, of Pulaski, is in jail at Jamestown for poisoning his wife to marry another woman, whom he was eloping with when apprehended. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[] Excerpt from "Mt.Vernon, Rockcastle County. The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 1, 1894. Page 1. LOC.
[June 1, 1894] -
The trial of Bill Newcum for the murder of Mrs. Burk is in progress to day, Thursday. []
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Sept. 23, 1894. Lincoln. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 1, 1895. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1895-03-01/ed-1/seq-3/
[March 1, 1895] -
Circuit Court. -- The trial of Will Hale for the murder of George Pennington, for which a jury was being obtained at our last report, began Tuesday morning, the remainder of the jury being obtained out of the 35 men summoned for the purpose. The panel was as follows: John Dinwiddie, Perry White, B. F. Dalton, James G. Gooch, Lee F. Stone, J. T. Jones, Richard Bibb, G. W. Carter, Wm. Stone, W. P. Carson, Sim Perkins and S. M. Helm. The accused was represented by W. H. Miller and Harvey Helm, while J. S. Owsley, Jr., and J. B. Paxton protected the interests of the Commonwealth.It took until Wednesday afternoon to present all the evidence. The case was tried at the last term of the court and resulted in a hung jury. It will be remembered that the killing occurred on Sunday, Sept. 23, 1894. Pennington was enamored with Mrs. Stamper, a grass widow, and daughter of Wilson Adams. He had been paying her devoted court, much against the wishes of Mr. Adams and when he went to his house on the fatal Sunday morning, he was ordered away by the old man. He left and securing an old gun was returning, when Hale, who is a son-in-law of Adams, intercepted him and shot him after, he claims, Pennington had shot at him twice. Pennington's dying statement was, however, that he told Hale that his gun had gone off accidentally and not to shoot him as he had nothing against him. The intimacy between the dead man and Mrs. Stamper, who is quite fair to look upon, was proved by love letters from her to him, which were of the most gushing and loving nature. In one of them appears this beautiful and ornate couplet:
Sweet is the man who reads these lines,
How I wish all that sweetness was mines.
During the reading of the letters, Mrs. Stamper sat unmoved and with the utmost nonchalance helped Mr. Owsley to decipher the productions.
After each of the lawyers had made speeches, all of which were complimented, that of Mr. Owsley, being especially praised by the family of the dead man, the case was given to the jury at 3:40 yesterday afternoon.
The jury had not agreed at 5 o'clock and Judge Saufley held them till this morning.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hommel's bond for the appearance of her son, Albert Hommel, which was declared forfeited at the last term of the court, was found to be irregular and proceedings against her dismissed. Albert has not yet shown up. The grand jury has adjourned until Monday, without making any of its works public.
Judge R. J. Breckinridge, Danville, Col. W. O. Bradley and Capt. William Herndon, Lancaster, and Casper C. Williams, Mt. Vernon, are among the visiting attorneys. []
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1895. Pulaski? not on timeline
[] "Boy Killed Over a Game of Marbles." Hazel Green Herald, Hazel Green, KY. June 6, 1895. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063242/1895-06-06/ed-1/seq-2/
[June 6, 1895] -
Boy Killed Over a Game of Marbles.
At Woodstock, a small place 18 miles from Somerset, Ky., J. J. Thompson and Arthur Todd became involved in a quarrel, when Todd stabbed Thompson in the throat, causing a mortal wound. Thompson lived but a short time after the cutting. Thompson was eighteen years of age and the son of Magistrate John Thompson. Todd is also eighteen years of age and is well connected. The trouble is supposed to have originated over a game of marbles which the boys were playing. Arthur Todd is in the Pulaski county jail and will be given an examining trial before Judge W. M. Catron Saturday. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 16, 1895. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1895-07-16/ed-1/seq-5/
[July 16, 1895] -
Arthur Todd, who stabbed young Marion Thompson to death at a singing school near Woodstock a couple of weeks ago, was tried at Somerset last week and given 10 years in the penitentiary. Todd is only 16 years old while Thompson was a year his junior. []
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1895. need to move to non-fatal
1895. need to move to non-fatal
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 18, 1895. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1895-06-18/ed-1/seq-3/
[June 18, 1895] -
[June 18, 1895] -
SAVED HIS NECK. -- Lewis Rector, an ex-convict and notorious horse thief, was lodged in jail at London and Friday night a mob of about 60 men took him out to hang him. They placed a rope around his neck and started to carry out their designs, when the fellow promised to give a big snap away if he were permitted to live. His plea was granted and he made some startling revelations, implicating men who had never before been suspicioned. []
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1895. Pulaski.
1895. Pulaski.
[] Excerpt from "Kentucky." Daily Public Ledger, Maysville, KY. July 1, 1895. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069117/1895-07-01/ed-1/seq-2/
[July 1, 1895] -
Shot From Ambush.
SOMERSET, Ky., July 1. -- W. J. Adkins, residing about 15 miles northeast of here, was shot from ambush near his home, the wound proving fatal. Adkins has been a terror to the eastern part of the county for several years. He leaves a family and several children. []
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[] Excerpt "Of a Local Nature." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 16, 1895. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1895-07-16/ed-1/seq-1/
[July 16, 1895] -
Will Jesse Adkins, who was shot from ambush in Pulaski county a short time ago, will probably die of his wounds without revealing the identity of his assassin. []
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1895. Wayne
1895. Wayne
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 16, 1895. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1895-07-16/ed-1/seq-5/
[July 16, 1895] -
When Louis Coffey, a young man of 19, attempted to reach the house of Isaac Burnett, near Monticello, to get his daughter to elope with him, he was discovered by Mr. Burnett, who charged him with doing so. Coffey called him a liar and as Burnett approached him drew a pistol. Burnett grabbed for the weapon, which was discharged both balls taking effect in Burnett's body from the effects of which he died after several days suffering. Coffey gave himself up and is now in jail. Burnett was 45 years of age and a highly respected citizens. Coffey's reputation is not so good. He was very much dejected, until he received a message from the girl, who is but 13 years of age, that she would go with him as soon as he got out of jail. []
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[] Excerpt from "Of a Local Nature." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 19, 1895. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1895-07-19/ed-1/seq-3/
[July 19, 1895] -
Louis Coffey has been bound over in the sum of $600 to the Circuit Court to be tried for the killing of Isaac Burnett at Monticello, July 8. []
[July 19, 1895] -
Louis Coffey has been bound over in the sum of $600 to the Circuit Court to be tried for the killing of Isaac Burnett at Monticello, July 8. []
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1895. Wayne
[] Excerpt from "Newsy Notes." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 19, 1895. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1895-07-19/ed-1/seq-2/
[July 19, 1895] -
Mrs. Nancy Slavens, was murdered and robbed at her home in Wayne county. Some of her grand-children are suspected of the crime. []
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[] Excerpt from "Of A Local Nature." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 9, 1895. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1895-08-09/ed-1/seq-1/
[August 9, 1895] -
Andrew Slavens and his three sons have been arrested in Scott county, Tenn., and returned to Monticello, Ky., charged with murdering and robbing Mrs. Nancy Slavens. []
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1895. Pulaski
[] "Another Killing in Pulaski." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. September 17, 1895. Page 5. Newspapers.com.
[September 17, 1895] -
Another Killing In Pulaski.
Somerset, Ky., Sept, 16. -- (Special.) -- A man named Estes shot and killed a young man named Singleton at Eubanks, fifteen miles north of here, Saturday night. Singleton was drinking and raising a row. Estes is now in jail here. []
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1895. Laurel
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 24, 1895. Page 5. LOC.
[December 24, 1895] -
KILLED. -- Mr. J. W. Perrin, who was in East Bernstadt at the time, tells us that W. T. Thurman, who worked with the Belden Bros., house painters here for several months, was shot and killed by Dan Quinn, at that place, Wednesday. The parties had been drinking together hand had had no previous trouble. Quinn is an ex-convict and is said to have killed two other men. He was at large at last accounts. Thurman was married while he was here to a lady at Livingston. []
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1895? Garrard. not on timeline
DANVILLE. -- The case of Frank Ellis, for killing Micajah Rowsey, was called and owing to the sickness of witnesses for the defense, continued until the next term of court. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 18, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-02-18/ed-1/seq-1/
[February 18, 1896] -
Circuit court will convene next Monday. There are no important cases on the docket save that of Marshal Ellis for the killing of young Murphy at Junction City, which is by change of venue from Boyle. []
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[] Excerpts from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 28, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-02-28/ed-1/seq-5/
three total i think
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[] Excerpt from "Shot." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 28, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-02-28/ed-1/seq-5/
[February 28, 1896] -
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 3, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-03-03/ed-1/seq-3/
[March 3, 1896] -
John Murphy, who shot Ellis last Wednesday, is still in jail. His attorney, Hon. John W. Yerkes, was here yesterday and got the case continued till next court. An effort will be made to reduce his bail, if the wounded man continues to improve.
The case was continued for two reasons, because Mr. Yerkes couldn't be here Friday and to await the result of Ellis' injuries. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 21, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-04-21/ed-1/seq-3/
[April 21, 1896] -
The Boyle circuit court began yesterday with a light docket. Frank Ellis' case for the murder of Cage Rowsey will be called to-day, but it is likely that it will be continued so that the one against him for killing young Murphy may be tried first. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 29, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-05-29/ed-1/seq-5/
[May 29, 1896] -
The only murder case is that of Frank Ellis, who killed young Murphy, moved to this county from Boyle... []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 5, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-06-05/ed-1/seq-5/
[June 5, 1896] -
The trial of John Murphy for shooting Frank Ellis was fixed for next Wednesday and that of C. G. Ware for obtaining goods by fraud for the 10th day of the term.
The trial of Frank Ellis for killing young Murphy while he was marshal of Junction City began yesterday by efforts to secure a jury. The prosecution will be assisted by Hon. John W. Yerkes and the defendant will be represented by Messrs. Welch, Warren and Breckinridge.
The following jurors were accepted, but not sworn, and were permitted to go home last night: C. K. McClure, Edmund Murphy, Wm. Perkins, J. W. Carson, J. F. Holdam, G. W. Spangler, J. R. Hales, J. T. Jones, L. H. Stone, John T. Bigamin, J. T. Harris and M. S. Peyton. Forty-four persons were examined to secure the panel. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 9, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-06-09/ed-1/seq-3/
[June 9, 1896] -
CIRCUIT COURT. -- The case of Marshal Frank Ellis for the murder of Henry Murphy occupied the court from Thursday till a late hour Saturday night, when the arguments were concluded. It was not submitted to the jury, however, till yesterday morning. The killing occurred at Junction City a little over a year ago. Murphy was returning with some boys from Burgin and took a pistol from one of them who was drunk and shooting, as he claimed in his dying declaration, to prevent him from doing injury to himself or somebody. When he got to Junction City the boy wanted the pistol and Ellis advised him to have Murphy arrested. He started to Judge Tuttle's to get the warrant and Ellis followed. They came upon Murphy, who said he hadn't stolen the pistol and would give it to him when he got sober. Ellis attempted to arrest him and Murphy became abusive. Then Ellis began to beat him over the head with a pistol, which made the blood flow freely. He took him to Hamner's, who ordered them out, as he did not want his floor blooded. Murphy went off and sat down on a box. His head began to hurt him and he again commenced to abuse Ellis, who started towards him, when he ran. As he did so Ellis fired, the ball taking effect about the hip pocket and ranging up into the bowels. This occurred at 5 P.M. Saturday and Murphy died at 2 A.M. the Monday following. Four speeches were made, Messrs. R. C. Warren and R. J. Breckinridge for the defense and J. W. Yerkes and John S. Owsley, Jr., for the Commonwealth, and each is said to have done well. Ellis looks pale and emaciated from his wound and long confinement. Will and John Murphy, brothers of the man killed, sat with the Commonwealth's attorneys and Ellis asked the court to see that they were unarmed.
At 8:30 yesterday morning, the case was finally given to the jury, which after wrestling with it for three hours, returned a verdict of 21 years. On the first ballot eight were for inflicting the death penalty, two for two years and two for acquittal. On the second 10 were for hanging. Ellis received the verdict without sign of emotion. His attorneys will move for a new trial and if it is refused take an appeal. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 3, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-07-03/ed-1/seq-5/
[July 3, 1896] -
The trial of John Murphy for shooting Frank Ellis was called Tuesday and after some difficulty in obtaining a jury, the examination of witnesses began. The fact that the defendant shot the man, while he was in the custody of the jailer and as he entered the court-house could not be controverted, so the defense in extenuation showed that Murphy did not know the jailer, nor the whereabouts of the jail and that seeing Ellis, who scowled at him, he lost control of himself and shot without premeditation. His lawyers tried hard to get an instruction for shooting under sudden heat and passion, but Judge Saufley refused to give it, and instead gave the usual instruction to give the prisoner the benefit of every doubt, but if the proof showed him guilty as charged to fix his punishment at from 1 to five years in the penitentiary. After arguments by Cols. J. W. Yerkes and T. P. Hill for the defense and by J. B. Paxton and J. S. Owsley, Jr., for the prosecution, to jury fixed the lower punishment, one year's imprisonment. Almost immediately, however, 11 of the jury signed at petition for pardon, which Mr. Yerkes had prepared, saying that they thought it a case for executive clemency, though under the instructions they were bound to find as they did. No appeal will be taken and Murphy will serve his sentence, if not pardoned.
In passing sentence on Frank Ellis for 21 years yesterday, Judge Saufley said it was one of the most unpleasant duties his ever had to perform. []
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Pardon info:
Ellis, Frank / Manslaughter / 21 / Lincoln / July 7, 1896 / May 8, 1900
[January 24, 1896] -
The ante-mortem statement of Marcus Jennings has been taken before Magistrate Jack Dunn. It will be remembered that in a difficulty with a negro named George Dismukes some weeks ago, Jennings' skull was broken, and at the time it was thought he would recover, but at this writing he is reported in a dying condition. Jennings' statement is that the trouble arose over a game of cards, and that Horace Graham held him while Dismukes struck the fatal blow. []
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1896? Floyd. Garrard
[] Excerpt from "Lancaster, Garrard County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 3, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-04-03/ed-1/seq-1/
[April 3, 1896] -
Robert Ham, one of the eight prisoners confined in the Lancaster jail, divulges the secret that an attempt was made Monday night to escape from imprisonment. They had removed the iron sheeting from the floor and drilled a hole in the stone beneath. The principal ones are thought to be Shelby Nunn, under sentence for 21 years; Lee Floyd, colored, under life sentence for murder, and Doc Stevens, sentenced for 10 years for horse stealing. []
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1896. Wayne
[] Excerpt from "Of a Local Nature." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 4, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-02-04/ed-1/seq-1/
[February 4, 1896] -
In Wayne county, Tom Parrish, aged 13, shot and killed Elmer Jones, 10, also colored, while hunting. Parrish claims that the killing was accidental, but he was held for murder. []
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1896. Laurel
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[] Excerpt from "Of A Local Nature." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 31, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-03-31/ed-1/seq-1/
[March 31, 1896] -
Jumbo Hughes, of Somerset, captured Wm. Sutherland, who broke jail at London the first of this month. He is charged with murdering Mr. Osborne at Pittsburg. []
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1896. Lincoln.
A number of cases were continued, filed away and passed till that of John Center for the murder of William Montray was called. A continuance was granted in that, but Commonwealth's Attorney Owsley admitted certain facts, that the defendant alleged he could prove by absent witnesses, and the case proceeded. Col. W. G. Welch represented the accused. It will be remembered that Center killed Montray while hunting, as he claims accidentally. The examining court discharged him, but the grand jury indicted. Mr. John G. Adkins swore yesterday that Montray said on his dying bed that Center had shot him for nothing.
Nearly all of the Commonwealth's witnesses swore that Montray made the statement, but Center in his testimony seemed to show conclusively that the shooting was an accident and the result of the "projecting" that had been indulged in all day between them.
The case was submitted without argument and at 4 o'clock the jury went to their room, and in a half an hour reported a verdict of acquittal. []
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NEGRO BOY KILLED. -- Last week Sterling Curtis, the 15-year-old son of W. H. Curtis, of the East End, was overtaken by Brigham Lee and his younger brother on a horse, and as he says, they bartered him for a race. He declined but the Negro boys gave their horse a cut and started off at full speed. In turning a curve the horse ran against a tree and threw them off, breaking one of Brigham's ribs and forcing it into his lungs, from the effects of which he died after two days. Another story is that young Curtis proposed the race and that he cut the horse, which was quite a spirited one, and upon this statement a warrant charging him with murder was issued and placed in the hands of Constable Benedict.
The warrant was executed and the boy was brought before Judge Davison yesterday for examining trial. There were a large number of witnesses and the case had not been concluded when we went to press. []
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1896. Lincoln. not on timeline
CALLED OUT AND SHOT. -- Tuesday night about 11 o'clock Anthony Alcorn, a Negro living near Turnersville, was called out of his house and shot by his 17-year-old son, Anthony. The shot entered his right breast and he fell almost instantly, but recovered sufficiently a few moments later to get back into his house. Some weeks ago the father and son quarreled about a division of the latter's wages, when it is said the boy threatened to kill the old man. Alcorn is considered dangerously hurt. After firing, the would-be assassin skipped, but was caught by Mr. T. G. Nunnelley and others, who turned him over to Jailer DeBord. The boy had been working for James Cash, but when captured he was planting corn on Ed Lewis' farm. He is anxious for his trial and says that if he has got to be hung, sent to the pen or punished in any way he wants it right now. As the grand jury is in session, he wil likely get his request granted.
In consideration with Mr. T. G. Nunnelly, who brought him [to] town, the young murderer said: "When I called pap out to kill him something said to me 'don't shoot him' and I lowered my gun, but all of a sudden I felt like I had to kill him and shot." "Why didn't you fire the other load at him," Mr. Nunnelly asked. "I thought I had already killed him and didn't care to shoot him for the fun of the thing," the young scamp carelessly replied.
LATER. -- The wounded man suffered agonies until a late hour Wednesday night, when he died.
Deputy R. M. Newland telegraphed to Jailer DeBord from McKinney yesterday that a mob of Negroes were coming here last night to hang Alcorn, and Judge Saufley ordered the sheriff to put a guard on the jail. []
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[June 9, 1896] -
The grand jury has returned eight indictments and is still in session. Among the indictments are one for murder against Anthony Alcorn, the patricide, and one against Dick Evans, Owsley Evans, Will Brown and Miller Broaddus for breaking in to W. P. Tate's store. They were brought into court and plead guilty, but declared they knew nothing of the robbery of S. H. Shanks' store. Their trials are set for this morning. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 19, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-06-19/ed-1/seq-5/
[June 19, 1896] -
Judge Saufley ordered Anthony Alcorn to be brought before him Tuesday for sentence. The order was obeyed, when the judge said:
"Anthony Alcorn, stand up!
You were indicted by the grand jury at the present term of this court for the crime of murder. It is said that the person slain was your father. To the charge contained in the indictment, you, upon consultation with counsel appointed for you by the Court, entered a plea of guilty. Under this plea the only requirement of the jury was to fix your punishment. The law gives to juries in this kind of case, the discretion to fix the punishment at either death or confinement in the penitentiary for life. The jury of your selection found you guilty according to your plea and fixed your punishment at death. Have you now any legal cause to show why this sentence of the law shall not be pronounced?"
Prisoner, "None."
By the Court: "It is therefore the judgment of the Court that you be remanded to the custody of the jailer of Lincoln county, and by him securely kept until Thursday, the 6th day of August 1896, and on that day you will be taken by the sheriff of Lincoln county to a private place of execution to be by him selected, and that on said day between the hours of 6 o'clock of the forenoon and 7 o'clock of the afternoon, you be by said officer hanged by the neck until you are dead."
The solemn words seemed to have no effect on the boy, who heard them without apparent emotion or concern. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 7, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-07-07/ed-1/seq-3/
[July 7, 1896] -
Circuit Court finally adjourned, after a five weeks session Friday afternoon, during which more criminal business was done than at any court within our memory, judging by the number of convictions. The juries were the most intelligent and best that have served for a long time and they acted promptly and well. To-day Sheriff Newland will take 14 convicts to the penitentiary and on the 6th of August, Providence and Gov. Bradley permitting, he will hang Anthony Alcorn by the neck till he is dead, for the murder of his father. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 4, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-08-04/ed-1/seq-3/
[August 4, 1896] -
HIS REASONS. -- Gov. Bradley endorsed the following on the petition of Anthony Alcorn for commutation of sentence: "The jury on a plea of guilty, notwithstanding a most earnest and eloquent appeal for the defendant and failure of the Commonwealth to make response, fixed Alcorn's punishment at death. The jury was composed of good men, and it appears that every opportunity was afforded defendant by an able, conscientious judge to have a fair trial. No attempt was made to establish (what is not urged) his weakness of mind; on the contrary he was introduced as a witness, and there is no pretense that his testimony was not intelligent. The fact that he is only 18 years old and ignorant can not palliate the murder of his father, deliberately planned. He had inquired upon what grounds another young man in his neighborhood, who had been tried for killing his father, was acquitted, and the whole conduct shows that he knew the quality of his act. After the killing, so intense was the excitement in the neighborhood that lynching was threatened, which was averted by reason of assurances that he should be promptly tried and punished. After compliance with that assurance, to save him from the punishment meted out would encourage rather than dissuade mob law. There is no good reason which warrants commuting of sentence, and I must decline to interfere." []
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[] Excerpt from "Danville and Vicinity." The Kentucky Advocate, Danville, KY. August 5, 1896. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[August 5, 1896] -
HANGS TO MORROW. -- Sometime between six o'clock to-morrow morning and six o'clock to-morrow afternoon Sheriff T. D. Newland, of Lincoln, will hang the negro boy, Anthony Alcorn, by the neck until he is dead. The boy is to die for the murder of his father, which crime was committed in West Lincoln. The boy pleaded guilty to the indictment and was sentenced. Since then an effort has been made to have the verdict changed to a life sentence, but the Governor could not see his way clear to extend the favor asked. Those working in the interest of the prisoner urged his youth -- about seventeen years -- his lack of mental development, and the provocation that he had. His father, it was claimed, not only cruelly mistreated him, but took all of his wages and allowed him no money at all. One night the boy called the old man to the door and shot him with a double-barreled gun. A long petition asking for his pardon was signed by all the leading white citizens of Stanford, but many of the prominent negroes of the county sent in a remonstrance. The Interior Journal, referring to the preparations for the hanging, says: The ugly instrument of death which Sheriff T. D. Newland is having erected on court square next to the circuit clerk's office gives the weak nerved the cold shudders and must send a cold chill through every fibre of Anthony Alcorn, who is in the jail near by hears every sound of hammer and saw. The gallows will be inside of a 12-foot fence, but people on the street and from the windows of buildings near by will be able to see the execution as plainly as those on the scaffold. Messrs. R. G. Jones and J. L. Totten are doing the carpenter's work. The rope has been ordered from Cincinnati and will cost $10. Alcorn spent his last Sunday on earth in the gaze of hundreds of people who went to see him from curiosity. He only spoke when addressed and then in monosyllables. He doesn't seem to fully realize his fate, though he says he is ready to go, preferring, however, to go to the penitentiary for several lifetimes to being hung. Jailer DeBord, who has watched him closely, says he is not more than half-witted and that he does not think, for that reason, he ought to be hung. A great many people here are of the same opinion and argue that a commutation of the sentence to life imprisonment would meet every demand of justice. When we saw him Sunday he seemed utterly indifferent, except to show a certain pride for being the object of so much interest. He marched up and down his cell continually, as if he wished everybody to get full view of him. In a conversation with Deputy R. M. Newland he expressed some concern as to his appearance on the scaffold and said he wanted a nice, black suit and a white shirt to wear on the occasion. []
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[] "Anthony Alcorn Respited." The Public Ledger, Maysville, KY. August 6, 1896. Page 4. Newspapers.com.
[August 6, 1896] -
Anthony Alcorn Respited.
FRANKFORT, Ky., Aug. 6. -- Gov. Bradley decided Wednesday night to grant a respite of 30 days to Anthony Alcorn, of Lincoln county whose hanging was set for Thursday. Alcorn murdered his father, and the governor refused some days since to commute his sentence to life imprisonment. []
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[] "Respite for Alcorn." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. August 6, 1896. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[August 6, 1896] -
RESPITE FOR ALCORN.
Frankfort, Ky., Aug. 5. -- (Special.) -- Gov. Bradley late this evening respited Anthony Alcorn for thirty years. Alcorn is the negro youth who was to have been hanged at Stanford to-morrow for the murder of his father. Recently the Governor, after a great effort had been made on Alcorn's behalf, refused to pardon him, giving strong reasons in his indorsement on the papers for failure to interfere. It is understood that the present respite has been granted to give the Executive time to examine some alleged new evidence. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 1. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 7, 1896. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-08-07/ed-1/seq-2/
[August 7, 1896] -
No matter what others may say and no matter how many may criticise us for saying it, we do not hesitate to say that we believe Gov. Bradley is trying his best to do his duty as chief executive. He may be a partisan and a boss, but when it comes down to doing what he believes to be right, he will do it regardless of criticism or vilification. Though he has seemingly granted a great many pardons, he has rarely failed to consult the judge and Commonwealth's attorney who tried the cases, naturally believing that they are best able to give an unbiased statement of it. He has to rely on them and it is no shift of responsibility to consult their wishes. His is a most responsible office and one which forces him every day of his life to take position on the most trying questions. We have condemned him severely for certain pardons but doubtless we would have acted as he did with the same light before us. We know that in the Alcorn case he used every precaution to act intelligently and correctly and those who object to his interference in the case must admit that if he had erred it is on the side of mercy. []
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[] Excerpts from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 11, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-08-11/ed-1/seq-3/
[August 11, 1896] -
IT IS HARD. -- Speaking of Anthony Alcorn, the Lancaster Record says: It looks pretty hard to hang a poor, foolish Negro, when there is so much fine white material going to waste. []
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[August 11, 1896] -
The gallows erected for Anthony Alcorn was an object of great interest to the court crowd yesterday. It is a grim looking monster and ought to have caused the cold chills to run over the bodies of those who would slay their fellow man. [ibid]
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[August 11, 1896] -
Mr. J. H. Alcorn, who is anxious that Anthony Alcorn shall be hung and who claims that he has as much sense as any boy his age, says we were mistaken in saying that the old man never did any thing for the boy. He took him at the death of his mother when he was between four and five years old and paid 75 cents a week for his keep until he was seven years old. [ibid]
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[] "Disappointed Spectators." The Richmond Climax, Richmond, KY. August 12, 1896. Page 5. Newspapers.com.
[August 12, 1896] -
Disappointed Spectators.
MCKINNEY, KY. -- Aug. 7. -- A big crowd gathered at Stanford to see, as best they could from places of elevation, the expected execution of Anthony Alcorn, and when it became known that a respite had been granted there were many expressions of disapproval, though some commended the governor's action. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 18, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-08-18/ed-1/seq-3/
[August 18, 1896] -
IS HE PLAYING CRAZY? -- There has been a wonderful change in Anthony Alcorn durinfg the last few days and it is the belief of those who see him most that he is playing crazy. He has heretofore been very talkative and always glad to see visitors, but now he refused to speak and takes no notice of those who call on him. He spends most of his time in bed gazing at the top of his cell. Jailer DeBord says the change came all of a sudden and that he is not as good a prisoner as he was before. The Negro's mind may not be very strong but it is not in as bad a condition as he is trying to make the public believe. []
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1896? Lynn / Howard.
The case of Lewis Lynn for killing Tom Howard was also continued and will be called for trial to-day.
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1896? George Lee James / Clarence Hardin. Lincoln.
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 3, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-07-03/ed-1/seq-5/
[July 3, 1896] -
ACQUITTED. -- At his examining trial Tuesday morning, George Lee James was promptly discharged for the murder of Clarence Hardin. The proof was substantially as given in our last and there seemed to be no desire on the part of the friends of the dead man to prosecute the case. A half dozen witnesses were examined for the Commonwealth, but James himself was only introduced for the defense. The law does not contemplate possibly that life should be taken under such circumstances, but it has come to be practice that if one man strikes another he has the right to slay him. []
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1896. Whitley.
[] Excerpt from "Somewhat Local." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 10, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-07-10/ed-1/seq-1/
[July 10, 1896] -
Wm. Jones was found dead on Pittman creek, in Whitley county, with a Winchester bullett hole through his heart. There is no clew to the murderer. []
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[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley Co." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 10, 1896. Page 6. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-07-10/ed-1/seq-6/
Wm. Jones was killed at the home of Andy Bull in the east part of the county Friday night. The inquest was held here Wednesday and the courthouse was crowded to standing room, as so much uncertainty surrounded the killing. The jury, after hearing the proof, returned a verdict that he came to his death at the hands of James Faulkner and accused Faulkner of murder in the killing. He will be brought out before the county judge on a writ of habeas corpus for bail. The proof is very conflicting, as the entire crowd was full of whisky and the night was very dark. []
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 17, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-07-17/ed-1/seq-5/
[July 17, 1896] -
Pat Cane, who killed Marshal Silcox, of Shelby City, under circumstances, which came near causing a mob to take his life, and who was twice convicted to terms in the penitentiary, has been pardoned by the governor, because, as he alleges, the case was one that the jury might have brought in a verdict of acquittal and for the further reason that he gave away a plot to blow down the walls of the penitentiary with dynamite. []
Pat Cain, who has just been pardoned by Gov. Bradley, was here Saturday on a visit to his brother-in-law, J. B. Green, and called in to see us to correct the statement made by this paper that he was twice convicted of the murder of Marshal Silcox. At the first trial there was a hung jury, instead of a conviction, as we were informed. Speaking of Cain reminds us that his pardon was procured on the petition of 11 of the jurors who heard the case and many others conversant with the facts. Judge Saufley himself says that the facts presented did not show the bad case that he had heard it was and that it was of that nature of cases in which jurors usually acquit. []
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1896. Pulaski
Near Norwood, Ky., E. M. Smock was found dead on the railroad track. His head had been cut off. Shell Sutherland and Ansel Wilson have been arrested at Cynthiana, charged with the murder. []
1895. Wayne
[] Excerpt from "Newsy Notes." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 19, 1895. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1895-07-19/ed-1/seq-2/
[July 19, 1895] -
Mrs. Nancy Slavens, was murdered and robbed at her home in Wayne county. Some of her grand-children are suspected of the crime. []---
[] Excerpt from "Of A Local Nature." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 9, 1895. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1895-08-09/ed-1/seq-1/
[August 9, 1895] -
Andrew Slavens and his three sons have been arrested in Scott county, Tenn., and returned to Monticello, Ky., charged with murdering and robbing Mrs. Nancy Slavens. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1895. Pulaski
[] "Another Killing in Pulaski." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. September 17, 1895. Page 5. Newspapers.com.
[September 17, 1895] -
Another Killing In Pulaski.Somerset, Ky., Sept, 16. -- (Special.) -- A man named Estes shot and killed a young man named Singleton at Eubanks, fifteen miles north of here, Saturday night. Singleton was drinking and raising a row. Estes is now in jail here. []
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1895. Laurel
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 24, 1895. Page 5. LOC.
[December 24, 1895] -
KILLED. -- Mr. J. W. Perrin, who was in East Bernstadt at the time, tells us that W. T. Thurman, who worked with the Belden Bros., house painters here for several months, was shot and killed by Dan Quinn, at that place, Wednesday. The parties had been drinking together hand had had no previous trouble. Quinn is an ex-convict and is said to have killed two other men. He was at large at last accounts. Thurman was married while he was here to a lady at Livingston. []1895? Garrard. not on timeline
[] "Nunn's Case Appealed." The Public Ledger, Maysville, KY. December 5, 1895. Page 2. Newspapers.com.
[December 5, 1895] -
Nunn's Case Appealed.
LANCASTER, KY., Dec., 5. -- The case of Shelby Nunn, who was given a twenty-one years' sentence at the last term of the circuit court for killing Wm. Best, has been appealed to the higher courts. Nunn's sentence was considered rather a light one, and in his last trial barely escaped hanging, as seven of the jurors were for the death penalty. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 28, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-01-28/ed-1/seq-3/
[January 28, 1896] -
Shelby Nunn, who killed Wm. Best in Garrard and was given 21 years, has been denied a new trial by the court of appeals and he will be taken to the penitentiary this week. []
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[] Excerpt from "Lancaster, Garrard County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 8, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-05-06/ed-1/seq-1/
[May 8, 1896] -
Capt. William Herndon and Lewis Walker, counsel for Shelby Nunn, who is in jail under a sentence of 21 years for the murder of Wm. Best, telegraphed the clerk of the court of appeals to withdraw the motion for a re-hearing and he was taken to Frankfort Tuesday. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 28, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-01-28/ed-1/seq-3/
[January 28, 1896] -
Shelby Nunn, who killed Wm. Best in Garrard and was given 21 years, has been denied a new trial by the court of appeals and he will be taken to the penitentiary this week. []---
[] Excerpt from "Lancaster, Garrard County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 8, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-05-06/ed-1/seq-1/
[May 8, 1896] -
Capt. William Herndon and Lewis Walker, counsel for Shelby Nunn, who is in jail under a sentence of 21 years for the murder of Wm. Best, telegraphed the clerk of the court of appeals to withdraw the motion for a re-hearing and he was taken to Frankfort Tuesday. []
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1895? Boyle.
[] Excerpt from Column 3. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 24, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-01-24/ed-1/seq-1/
[January 24, 1896] -
DANVILLE. -- The case of Frank Ellis, for killing Micajah Rowsey, was called and owing to the sickness of witnesses for the defense, continued until the next term of court. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 18, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-02-18/ed-1/seq-1/
[February 18, 1896] -
Circuit court will convene next Monday. There are no important cases on the docket save that of Marshal Ellis for the killing of young Murphy at Junction City, which is by change of venue from Boyle. []---
[] Excerpts from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 28, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-02-28/ed-1/seq-5/
three total i think
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[] Excerpt from "Shot." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 28, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-02-28/ed-1/seq-5/
[February 28, 1896] -
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 3, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-03-03/ed-1/seq-3/
[March 3, 1896] -
John Murphy, who shot Ellis last Wednesday, is still in jail. His attorney, Hon. John W. Yerkes, was here yesterday and got the case continued till next court. An effort will be made to reduce his bail, if the wounded man continues to improve.The case was continued for two reasons, because Mr. Yerkes couldn't be here Friday and to await the result of Ellis' injuries. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 21, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-04-21/ed-1/seq-3/
[April 21, 1896] -
The Boyle circuit court began yesterday with a light docket. Frank Ellis' case for the murder of Cage Rowsey will be called to-day, but it is likely that it will be continued so that the one against him for killing young Murphy may be tried first. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 29, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-05-29/ed-1/seq-5/
[May 29, 1896] -
The only murder case is that of Frank Ellis, who killed young Murphy, moved to this county from Boyle... [][] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 5, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-06-05/ed-1/seq-5/
[June 5, 1896] -
The trial of John Murphy for shooting Frank Ellis was fixed for next Wednesday and that of C. G. Ware for obtaining goods by fraud for the 10th day of the term.The trial of Frank Ellis for killing young Murphy while he was marshal of Junction City began yesterday by efforts to secure a jury. The prosecution will be assisted by Hon. John W. Yerkes and the defendant will be represented by Messrs. Welch, Warren and Breckinridge.
The following jurors were accepted, but not sworn, and were permitted to go home last night: C. K. McClure, Edmund Murphy, Wm. Perkins, J. W. Carson, J. F. Holdam, G. W. Spangler, J. R. Hales, J. T. Jones, L. H. Stone, John T. Bigamin, J. T. Harris and M. S. Peyton. Forty-four persons were examined to secure the panel. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 9, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-06-09/ed-1/seq-3/
CIRCUIT COURT. -- The case of Marshal Frank Ellis for the murder of Henry Murphy occupied the court from Thursday till a late hour Saturday night, when the arguments were concluded. It was not submitted to the jury, however, till yesterday morning. The killing occurred at Junction City a little over a year ago. Murphy was returning with some boys from Burgin and took a pistol from one of them who was drunk and shooting, as he claimed in his dying declaration, to prevent him from doing injury to himself or somebody. When he got to Junction City the boy wanted the pistol and Ellis advised him to have Murphy arrested. He started to Judge Tuttle's to get the warrant and Ellis followed. They came upon Murphy, who said he hadn't stolen the pistol and would give it to him when he got sober. Ellis attempted to arrest him and Murphy became abusive. Then Ellis began to beat him over the head with a pistol, which made the blood flow freely. He took him to Hamner's, who ordered them out, as he did not want his floor blooded. Murphy went off and sat down on a box. His head began to hurt him and he again commenced to abuse Ellis, who started towards him, when he ran. As he did so Ellis fired, the ball taking effect about the hip pocket and ranging up into the bowels. This occurred at 5 P.M. Saturday and Murphy died at 2 A.M. the Monday following. Four speeches were made, Messrs. R. C. Warren and R. J. Breckinridge for the defense and J. W. Yerkes and John S. Owsley, Jr., for the Commonwealth, and each is said to have done well. Ellis looks pale and emaciated from his wound and long confinement. Will and John Murphy, brothers of the man killed, sat with the Commonwealth's attorneys and Ellis asked the court to see that they were unarmed.At 8:30 yesterday morning, the case was finally given to the jury, which after wrestling with it for three hours, returned a verdict of 21 years. On the first ballot eight were for inflicting the death penalty, two for two years and two for acquittal. On the second 10 were for hanging. Ellis received the verdict without sign of emotion. His attorneys will move for a new trial and if it is refused take an appeal. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 3, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-07-03/ed-1/seq-5/
[July 3, 1896] -
The trial of John Murphy for shooting Frank Ellis was called Tuesday and after some difficulty in obtaining a jury, the examination of witnesses began. The fact that the defendant shot the man, while he was in the custody of the jailer and as he entered the court-house could not be controverted, so the defense in extenuation showed that Murphy did not know the jailer, nor the whereabouts of the jail and that seeing Ellis, who scowled at him, he lost control of himself and shot without premeditation. His lawyers tried hard to get an instruction for shooting under sudden heat and passion, but Judge Saufley refused to give it, and instead gave the usual instruction to give the prisoner the benefit of every doubt, but if the proof showed him guilty as charged to fix his punishment at from 1 to five years in the penitentiary. After arguments by Cols. J. W. Yerkes and T. P. Hill for the defense and by J. B. Paxton and J. S. Owsley, Jr., for the prosecution, to jury fixed the lower punishment, one year's imprisonment. Almost immediately, however, 11 of the jury signed at petition for pardon, which Mr. Yerkes had prepared, saying that they thought it a case for executive clemency, though under the instructions they were bound to find as they did. No appeal will be taken and Murphy will serve his sentence, if not pardoned.In passing sentence on Frank Ellis for 21 years yesterday, Judge Saufley said it was one of the most unpleasant duties his ever had to perform. []
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Pardon info:
Ellis, Frank / Manslaughter / 21 / Lincoln / July 7, 1896 / May 8, 1900
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killing?
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 3, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-03-03/ed-1/seq-3/
FILLED WITH SHOT. -- In the knobs back of Moreland Thursday George Harrod filled the face and breast of Ben Costigan with bird shot and then fired a pistol at him, the ball striking him in the forehead and glancing did little damage. A surgeon was called and found that 190 shot had found lodgment in Costigan. Harrod fled and Saturday night was found by a negro near Lexington writhing in agony from a pistol shot in his body. He took him to the city where he was examined and his case pronounced hopeless. In broken accents and between shrieks of pain, he told how he had shot Costigan, who had attempted to ruin his 13-year-old daughter and had walked all the way to Lexington. He told a Leader reporter that he shot himself because he thought that he had been pursued from the city and was about to be caught. "They were after me," said he, "and I knew they'd kill me when they caught me, so thought I'd kill myself." A little while later, when asked if he wanted any message sent home, he said: "Yes, write to George Ann, she's all I've got, and tell her I shot myself to save trouble." Costigan is not seriously hurt and it is said will soon be out. Both men came to this county from Franklin county and are tobacco raisers. The neighbors seem to know very little about them.
Stevens / Payne. Rowland is in Lincoln. not in timeline
[] Excerpts from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 28, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-02-28/ed-1/seq-5/
[February 28, 1896] -
The unusual spectacle of brother arresting brother for stealing a horse from another brother was witnessed in Richmond Tuesday, when Tiff Stevens, of Garrard, arrested George Stevens, for stealing a horse from David Stevens, also of the same county. He then handcuffed him and brought him to the Lancaster jail. They are sons of David Stevens, who was killed at Rowland by John Payne. George had not been out of the penitentiary long and is now said to be under indictment in Woodford for horse stealing there. David Stevens was here Tuesday to advertise for his horse, when he told us he was sure his brother had stolen him and gave us a description of him for publication, saying that the State offered a standing reward of $50 for such thieves and that he would pay liberally for the return of the horse. He did not seem to be humiliated at all by the act, but appeared to be bent on revenge and the punishment of his own flesh and blood. []
1895/1896. Garrard. not on timeline
killing?
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 3, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-03-03/ed-1/seq-3/
[March 3, 1896] -
FILLED WITH SHOT. -- In the knobs back of Moreland Thursday George Harrod filled the face and breast of Ben Costigan with bird shot and then fired a pistol at him, the ball striking him in the forehead and glancing did little damage. A surgeon was called and found that 190 shot had found lodgment in Costigan. Harrod fled and Saturday night was found by a negro near Lexington writhing in agony from a pistol shot in his body. He took him to the city where he was examined and his case pronounced hopeless. In broken accents and between shrieks of pain, he told how he had shot Costigan, who had attempted to ruin his 13-year-old daughter and had walked all the way to Lexington. He told a Leader reporter that he shot himself because he thought that he had been pursued from the city and was about to be caught. "They were after me," said he, "and I knew they'd kill me when they caught me, so thought I'd kill myself." A little while later, when asked if he wanted any message sent home, he said: "Yes, write to George Ann, she's all I've got, and tell her I shot myself to save trouble." Costigan is not seriously hurt and it is said will soon be out. Both men came to this county from Franklin county and are tobacco raisers. The neighbors seem to know very little about them.
Later. -- Harrod died Sunday night. []
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[] Excerpts from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 28, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-02-28/ed-1/seq-5/
[February 28, 1896] -
The unusual spectacle of brother arresting brother for stealing a horse from another brother was witnessed in Richmond Tuesday, when Tiff Stevens, of Garrard, arrested George Stevens, for stealing a horse from David Stevens, also of the same county. He then handcuffed him and brought him to the Lancaster jail. They are sons of David Stevens, who was killed at Rowland by John Payne. George had not been out of the penitentiary long and is now said to be under indictment in Woodford for horse stealing there. David Stevens was here Tuesday to advertise for his horse, when he told us he was sure his brother had stolen him and gave us a description of him for publication, saying that the State offered a standing reward of $50 for such thieves and that he would pay liberally for the return of the horse. He did not seem to be humiliated at all by the act, but appeared to be bent on revenge and the punishment of his own flesh and blood. []
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[] Excerpt from "Lancaster, Garrard County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 24, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-01-24/ed-1/seq-1/
[January 24, 1896] -
The ante-mortem statement of Marcus Jennings has been taken before Magistrate Jack Dunn. It will be remembered that in a difficulty with a negro named George Dismukes some weeks ago, Jennings' skull was broken, and at the time it was thought he would recover, but at this writing he is reported in a dying condition. Jennings' statement is that the trouble arose over a game of cards, and that Horace Graham held him while Dismukes struck the fatal blow. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1896? Floyd. Garrard
[] Excerpt from "Lancaster, Garrard County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 3, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-04-03/ed-1/seq-1/
[April 3, 1896] -
Robert Ham, one of the eight prisoners confined in the Lancaster jail, divulges the secret that an attempt was made Monday night to escape from imprisonment. They had removed the iron sheeting from the floor and drilled a hole in the stone beneath. The principal ones are thought to be Shelby Nunn, under sentence for 21 years; Lee Floyd, colored, under life sentence for murder, and Doc Stevens, sentenced for 10 years for horse stealing. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[] Excerpt from "Of a Local Nature." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 4, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-02-04/ed-1/seq-1/
[February 4, 1896] -
In Wayne county, Tom Parrish, aged 13, shot and killed Elmer Jones, 10, also colored, while hunting. Parrish claims that the killing was accidental, but he was held for murder. []1896. Laurel
osborn, osbourn, osbourne, osborne, southerland, sutherland, sotherland
[] Excerpt from "Of A Local Nature." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 21, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-02-21/ed-1/seq-1/
[February 21, 1896] -
At Pittsburg, Wm. Southerland shot and killed William Osborn. Osborn was drunk. Southerland was arrested and taken to London, where he was given an examining trial and allowed bail in the sum of $4,000. []
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[] Excerpt from "Of A Local Nature." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 31, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-03-31/ed-1/seq-1/
[March 31, 1896] -
Jumbo Hughes, of Somerset, captured Wm. Sutherland, who broke jail at London the first of this month. He is charged with murdering Mr. Osborne at Pittsburg. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1896. Lincoln.
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 25, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-02-25/ed-1/seq-3/
[February 25, 1896] -
A number of cases were continued, filed away and passed till that of John Center for the murder of William Montray was called. A continuance was granted in that, but Commonwealth's Attorney Owsley admitted certain facts, that the defendant alleged he could prove by absent witnesses, and the case proceeded. Col. W. G. Welch represented the accused. It will be remembered that Center killed Montray while hunting, as he claims accidentally. The examining court discharged him, but the grand jury indicted. Mr. John G. Adkins swore yesterday that Montray said on his dying bed that Center had shot him for nothing.Nearly all of the Commonwealth's witnesses swore that Montray made the statement, but Center in his testimony seemed to show conclusively that the shooting was an accident and the result of the "projecting" that had been indulged in all day between them.
The case was submitted without argument and at 4 o'clock the jury went to their room, and in a half an hour reported a verdict of acquittal. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 30, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-06-30/ed-1/seq-5/
[June 30, 1896] -
NEGRO BOY KILLED. -- Last week Sterling Curtis, the 15-year-old son of W. H. Curtis, of the East End, was overtaken by Brigham Lee and his younger brother on a horse, and as he says, they bartered him for a race. He declined but the Negro boys gave their horse a cut and started off at full speed. In turning a curve the horse ran against a tree and threw them off, breaking one of Brigham's ribs and forcing it into his lungs, from the effects of which he died after two days. Another story is that young Curtis proposed the race and that he cut the horse, which was quite a spirited one, and upon this statement a warrant charging him with murder was issued and placed in the hands of Constable Benedict.The warrant was executed and the boy was brought before Judge Davison yesterday for examining trial. There were a large number of witnesses and the case had not been concluded when we went to press. []
1896. Lincoln. not on timeline
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 5, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-06-05/ed-1/seq-5/
[June 5, 1896] -
CALLED OUT AND SHOT. -- Tuesday night about 11 o'clock Anthony Alcorn, a Negro living near Turnersville, was called out of his house and shot by his 17-year-old son, Anthony. The shot entered his right breast and he fell almost instantly, but recovered sufficiently a few moments later to get back into his house. Some weeks ago the father and son quarreled about a division of the latter's wages, when it is said the boy threatened to kill the old man. Alcorn is considered dangerously hurt. After firing, the would-be assassin skipped, but was caught by Mr. T. G. Nunnelley and others, who turned him over to Jailer DeBord. The boy had been working for James Cash, but when captured he was planting corn on Ed Lewis' farm. He is anxious for his trial and says that if he has got to be hung, sent to the pen or punished in any way he wants it right now. As the grand jury is in session, he wil likely get his request granted.In consideration with Mr. T. G. Nunnelly, who brought him [to] town, the young murderer said: "When I called pap out to kill him something said to me 'don't shoot him' and I lowered my gun, but all of a sudden I felt like I had to kill him and shot." "Why didn't you fire the other load at him," Mr. Nunnelly asked. "I thought I had already killed him and didn't care to shoot him for the fun of the thing," the young scamp carelessly replied.
LATER. -- The wounded man suffered agonies until a late hour Wednesday night, when he died.
Deputy R. M. Newland telegraphed to Jailer DeBord from McKinney yesterday that a mob of Negroes were coming here last night to hang Alcorn, and Judge Saufley ordered the sheriff to put a guard on the jail. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 9, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-06-09/ed-1/seq-5/
[June 9, 1896] -
The grand jury has returned eight indictments and is still in session. Among the indictments are one for murder against Anthony Alcorn, the patricide, and one against Dick Evans, Owsley Evans, Will Brown and Miller Broaddus for breaking in to W. P. Tate's store. They were brought into court and plead guilty, but declared they knew nothing of the robbery of S. H. Shanks' store. Their trials are set for this morning. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 19, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-06-19/ed-1/seq-5/
[June 19, 1896] -
Judge Saufley ordered Anthony Alcorn to be brought before him Tuesday for sentence. The order was obeyed, when the judge said:"Anthony Alcorn, stand up!
You were indicted by the grand jury at the present term of this court for the crime of murder. It is said that the person slain was your father. To the charge contained in the indictment, you, upon consultation with counsel appointed for you by the Court, entered a plea of guilty. Under this plea the only requirement of the jury was to fix your punishment. The law gives to juries in this kind of case, the discretion to fix the punishment at either death or confinement in the penitentiary for life. The jury of your selection found you guilty according to your plea and fixed your punishment at death. Have you now any legal cause to show why this sentence of the law shall not be pronounced?"
Prisoner, "None."
By the Court: "It is therefore the judgment of the Court that you be remanded to the custody of the jailer of Lincoln county, and by him securely kept until Thursday, the 6th day of August 1896, and on that day you will be taken by the sheriff of Lincoln county to a private place of execution to be by him selected, and that on said day between the hours of 6 o'clock of the forenoon and 7 o'clock of the afternoon, you be by said officer hanged by the neck until you are dead."
The solemn words seemed to have no effect on the boy, who heard them without apparent emotion or concern. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 7, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-07-07/ed-1/seq-3/
[July 7, 1896] -
Circuit Court finally adjourned, after a five weeks session Friday afternoon, during which more criminal business was done than at any court within our memory, judging by the number of convictions. The juries were the most intelligent and best that have served for a long time and they acted promptly and well. To-day Sheriff Newland will take 14 convicts to the penitentiary and on the 6th of August, Providence and Gov. Bradley permitting, he will hang Anthony Alcorn by the neck till he is dead, for the murder of his father. []---
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 4, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-08-04/ed-1/seq-3/
[August 4, 1896] -
HIS REASONS. -- Gov. Bradley endorsed the following on the petition of Anthony Alcorn for commutation of sentence: "The jury on a plea of guilty, notwithstanding a most earnest and eloquent appeal for the defendant and failure of the Commonwealth to make response, fixed Alcorn's punishment at death. The jury was composed of good men, and it appears that every opportunity was afforded defendant by an able, conscientious judge to have a fair trial. No attempt was made to establish (what is not urged) his weakness of mind; on the contrary he was introduced as a witness, and there is no pretense that his testimony was not intelligent. The fact that he is only 18 years old and ignorant can not palliate the murder of his father, deliberately planned. He had inquired upon what grounds another young man in his neighborhood, who had been tried for killing his father, was acquitted, and the whole conduct shows that he knew the quality of his act. After the killing, so intense was the excitement in the neighborhood that lynching was threatened, which was averted by reason of assurances that he should be promptly tried and punished. After compliance with that assurance, to save him from the punishment meted out would encourage rather than dissuade mob law. There is no good reason which warrants commuting of sentence, and I must decline to interfere." []---
[] Excerpt from "Danville and Vicinity." The Kentucky Advocate, Danville, KY. August 5, 1896. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[August 5, 1896] -
HANGS TO MORROW. -- Sometime between six o'clock to-morrow morning and six o'clock to-morrow afternoon Sheriff T. D. Newland, of Lincoln, will hang the negro boy, Anthony Alcorn, by the neck until he is dead. The boy is to die for the murder of his father, which crime was committed in West Lincoln. The boy pleaded guilty to the indictment and was sentenced. Since then an effort has been made to have the verdict changed to a life sentence, but the Governor could not see his way clear to extend the favor asked. Those working in the interest of the prisoner urged his youth -- about seventeen years -- his lack of mental development, and the provocation that he had. His father, it was claimed, not only cruelly mistreated him, but took all of his wages and allowed him no money at all. One night the boy called the old man to the door and shot him with a double-barreled gun. A long petition asking for his pardon was signed by all the leading white citizens of Stanford, but many of the prominent negroes of the county sent in a remonstrance. The Interior Journal, referring to the preparations for the hanging, says: The ugly instrument of death which Sheriff T. D. Newland is having erected on court square next to the circuit clerk's office gives the weak nerved the cold shudders and must send a cold chill through every fibre of Anthony Alcorn, who is in the jail near by hears every sound of hammer and saw. The gallows will be inside of a 12-foot fence, but people on the street and from the windows of buildings near by will be able to see the execution as plainly as those on the scaffold. Messrs. R. G. Jones and J. L. Totten are doing the carpenter's work. The rope has been ordered from Cincinnati and will cost $10. Alcorn spent his last Sunday on earth in the gaze of hundreds of people who went to see him from curiosity. He only spoke when addressed and then in monosyllables. He doesn't seem to fully realize his fate, though he says he is ready to go, preferring, however, to go to the penitentiary for several lifetimes to being hung. Jailer DeBord, who has watched him closely, says he is not more than half-witted and that he does not think, for that reason, he ought to be hung. A great many people here are of the same opinion and argue that a commutation of the sentence to life imprisonment would meet every demand of justice. When we saw him Sunday he seemed utterly indifferent, except to show a certain pride for being the object of so much interest. He marched up and down his cell continually, as if he wished everybody to get full view of him. In a conversation with Deputy R. M. Newland he expressed some concern as to his appearance on the scaffold and said he wanted a nice, black suit and a white shirt to wear on the occasion. []---
[] "Anthony Alcorn Respited." The Public Ledger, Maysville, KY. August 6, 1896. Page 4. Newspapers.com.
[August 6, 1896] -
Anthony Alcorn Respited.FRANKFORT, Ky., Aug. 6. -- Gov. Bradley decided Wednesday night to grant a respite of 30 days to Anthony Alcorn, of Lincoln county whose hanging was set for Thursday. Alcorn murdered his father, and the governor refused some days since to commute his sentence to life imprisonment. []
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[] "Respite for Alcorn." The Courier Journal, Louisville, KY. August 6, 1896. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[August 6, 1896] -
RESPITE FOR ALCORN.
Thirty Days' More Life For a Boy Who Was To Have Been Hanged To-day.
Frankfort, Ky., Aug. 5. -- (Special.) -- Gov. Bradley late this evening respited Anthony Alcorn for thirty years. Alcorn is the negro youth who was to have been hanged at Stanford to-morrow for the murder of his father. Recently the Governor, after a great effort had been made on Alcorn's behalf, refused to pardon him, giving strong reasons in his indorsement on the papers for failure to interfere. It is understood that the present respite has been granted to give the Executive time to examine some alleged new evidence. []
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[] Excerpt from Column 1. Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 7, 1896. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-08-07/ed-1/seq-2/
[August 7, 1896] -
No matter what others may say and no matter how many may criticise us for saying it, we do not hesitate to say that we believe Gov. Bradley is trying his best to do his duty as chief executive. He may be a partisan and a boss, but when it comes down to doing what he believes to be right, he will do it regardless of criticism or vilification. Though he has seemingly granted a great many pardons, he has rarely failed to consult the judge and Commonwealth's attorney who tried the cases, naturally believing that they are best able to give an unbiased statement of it. He has to rely on them and it is no shift of responsibility to consult their wishes. His is a most responsible office and one which forces him every day of his life to take position on the most trying questions. We have condemned him severely for certain pardons but doubtless we would have acted as he did with the same light before us. We know that in the Alcorn case he used every precaution to act intelligently and correctly and those who object to his interference in the case must admit that if he had erred it is on the side of mercy. []---
[] Excerpts from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 11, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-08-11/ed-1/seq-3/
[August 11, 1896] -
IT IS HARD. -- Speaking of Anthony Alcorn, the Lancaster Record says: It looks pretty hard to hang a poor, foolish Negro, when there is so much fine white material going to waste. []---
[August 11, 1896] -
The gallows erected for Anthony Alcorn was an object of great interest to the court crowd yesterday. It is a grim looking monster and ought to have caused the cold chills to run over the bodies of those who would slay their fellow man. [ibid]---
[August 11, 1896] -
Mr. J. H. Alcorn, who is anxious that Anthony Alcorn shall be hung and who claims that he has as much sense as any boy his age, says we were mistaken in saying that the old man never did any thing for the boy. He took him at the death of his mother when he was between four and five years old and paid 75 cents a week for his keep until he was seven years old. [ibid]---
[] "Disappointed Spectators." The Richmond Climax, Richmond, KY. August 12, 1896. Page 5. Newspapers.com.
[August 12, 1896] -
Disappointed Spectators.MCKINNEY, KY. -- Aug. 7. -- A big crowd gathered at Stanford to see, as best they could from places of elevation, the expected execution of Anthony Alcorn, and when it became known that a respite had been granted there were many expressions of disapproval, though some commended the governor's action. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 18, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-08-18/ed-1/seq-3/
[August 18, 1896] -
IS HE PLAYING CRAZY? -- There has been a wonderful change in Anthony Alcorn durinfg the last few days and it is the belief of those who see him most that he is playing crazy. He has heretofore been very talkative and always glad to see visitors, but now he refused to speak and takes no notice of those who call on him. He spends most of his time in bed gazing at the top of his cell. Jailer DeBord says the change came all of a sudden and that he is not as good a prisoner as he was before. The Negro's mind may not be very strong but it is not in as bad a condition as he is trying to make the public believe. []1896? Lynn / Howard.
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. December 11, 1896. Page 5. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-12-11/ed-1/seq-5/
[December 11, 1896] -
The case of Lewis Lynn for killing Tom Howard was also continued and will be called for trial to-day.
The grand jury is composed as follows: J. D. Bastin, foreman, J. S. Owsley, Sr., T. J. Robinson, S. K. Jones, J. A. Allen, J. E. Lynn, J. L. Beck, Adam Petry, R. M. Rigney, Dan Cooley, T. W. Hamilton and Wm. Long. They held a session Tuesday and returned an indictment. It was for murder and against Louis Lynn.
They will meet again next Tuesday. The petit jury is the same as before. []
1896? George Lee James / Clarence Hardin. Lincoln.
[July 3, 1896] -
ACQUITTED. -- At his examining trial Tuesday morning, George Lee James was promptly discharged for the murder of Clarence Hardin. The proof was substantially as given in our last and there seemed to be no desire on the part of the friends of the dead man to prosecute the case. A half dozen witnesses were examined for the Commonwealth, but James himself was only introduced for the defense. The law does not contemplate possibly that life should be taken under such circumstances, but it has come to be practice that if one man strikes another he has the right to slay him. []1896. Whitley.
[] Excerpt from "Somewhat Local." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 10, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-07-10/ed-1/seq-1/
[July 10, 1896] -
Wm. Jones was found dead on Pittman creek, in Whitley county, with a Winchester bullett hole through his heart. There is no clew to the murderer. []---
[] Excerpt from "Williamsburg, Whitley Co." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 10, 1896. Page 6. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-07-10/ed-1/seq-6/
[July 10, 1896] -
Wm. Jones was killed at the home of Andy Bull in the east part of the county Friday night. The inquest was held here Wednesday and the courthouse was crowded to standing room, as so much uncertainty surrounded the killing. The jury, after hearing the proof, returned a verdict that he came to his death at the hands of James Faulkner and accused Faulkner of murder in the killing. He will be brought out before the county judge on a writ of habeas corpus for bail. The proof is very conflicting, as the entire crowd was full of whisky and the night was very dark. []
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[July 17, 1896] -
Pat Cane, who killed Marshal Silcox, of Shelby City, under circumstances, which came near causing a mob to take his life, and who was twice convicted to terms in the penitentiary, has been pardoned by the governor, because, as he alleges, the case was one that the jury might have brought in a verdict of acquittal and for the further reason that he gave away a plot to blow down the walls of the penitentiary with dynamite. []
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[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 21, 1896. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-07-21/ed-1/seq-3/
[July 21, 1896] -
Pat Cain, who has just been pardoned by Gov. Bradley, was here Saturday on a visit to his brother-in-law, J. B. Green, and called in to see us to correct the statement made by this paper that he was twice convicted of the murder of Marshal Silcox. At the first trial there was a hung jury, instead of a conviction, as we were informed. Speaking of Cain reminds us that his pardon was procured on the petition of 11 of the jurors who heard the case and many others conversant with the facts. Judge Saufley himself says that the facts presented did not show the bad case that he had heard it was and that it was of that nature of cases in which jurors usually acquit. []
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Cane, Pat / Manslaughter / 3 / Boyle / Feb 5, 1895 / July 14, 1896
[] Excerpt from "Somewhat Local." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 10, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-07-10/ed-1/seq-1/
[July 10, 1896] -
Near Norwood, Ky., E. M. Smock was found dead on the railroad track. His head had been cut off. Shell Sutherland and Ansel Wilson have been arrested at Cynthiana, charged with the murder. []
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1896? Pulaski
1896? Pulaski
[] "Just Left the Pen." Morning Herald, Lexington, KY. August 11, 1896. Page 4. Genealogybank.com.
[August 11, 1896] -
[August 11, 1896] -
John Gruarch, who is now confined in [Somerset] jail charged with murder, []
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[] Excerpt from "Somewhat Local." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 11, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-08-11/ed-1/seq-1/
[August 11, 1896] -
Joe Hopper and Mattie Johnson, of Laurel, whose bodies were found on the Louisville Southern track so mangled that the coroner's jury could find no evidence of foul play, were murdered, it has been discovered, by five Negroes who were playing craps at the time. Both were shot and their bodies placed on the track. A Negro who witnessed the murder told about it and says it was done for robbery. LATER. -- The sheriff went to scene to find that the alleged confession was a fake. []
The indictment against Wm. Simpson, charged with being accessory to the murder of Wm. Cumley, was filed, on Tuesday, Jones, the principal, who has been sentenced for life, refusing to testify against him. []
Henderson Jones has been sent to Frankfort to serve a life sentence for killing William Cumley. []
Circuit court has adjourned. The jury, in the case of the Commonwealth against Sam Sutton, charged with murdering Bob Brewster, at Bryantsville, failed to agree, six being for the highest penalty and six for acquittal. He has been sent to the Richmond jail, while the jail here [Lancaster] is being repaired. []
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Your correspondent is indebted to W. B. Mason, the next clerk of the court of appeals, for the following statement of the docket for circuit court, beginning next Monday: Old Commonwealth cases 25; old common law 14; new common law 17; old equity 96; equity appearances 8. Sam Sutton, colored, is the only one to be tried for murder. []
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About 10:30 o'clock Wednesday, four shots were fired in the court-house. A crowd rushed to Judge Burnside's office and found Jettie Knox, a colored shoemaker, lying dead, with a pistol in each hand, and the judge with a shot in his arm and one in his thigh. Postmaster J. I. Hamilton had done the killing, having fired three shots, all of which took effect in Knox's head, and one, by accident, passing through the judge's arm. The shot in the judge's thigh was made by Knox, the judge being between them. Hamilton had loaned Knox some money to be secured by mortgage. The mortgage had not been fixed and hot words passed between them on Wednesday morning, when Hamilton left him. Afterward Judge Burnside told Hamilton that Knox was in his office to get a peace warrant. Hamilton said that was unnecessary, that he only wanted the mortgage. They approached the office and found Knox with a pistol in each hand. He snapped at Hamilton, who thinking he was shot, opened fire, with the above result. The coroner's jury adjourned at 2 o'clock Thursday, hoping to get a statement from Judge Burnside, who is resting well at this writing. Elder George Gowen saw Knox with a pistol in his hand some time before the shooting, and it will be proved that he fired a shot, at home, to test his pistol, and that he had made threats. The killing was undoubtedly done in self defense. Knox came here from North Carolina, about one year ago, and was regarded as a bad man, even among his own race. []
[] Excerpt from "Somewhat Local." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 11, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-08-11/ed-1/seq-1/
[August 11, 1896] -
Joe Hopper and Mattie Johnson, of Laurel, whose bodies were found on the Louisville Southern track so mangled that the coroner's jury could find no evidence of foul play, were murdered, it has been discovered, by five Negroes who were playing craps at the time. Both were shot and their bodies placed on the track. A Negro who witnessed the murder told about it and says it was done for robbery. LATER. -- The sheriff went to scene to find that the alleged confession was a fake. []
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[] Excerpt from "Somewhat Local." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 11, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-08-11/ed-1/seq-1/
[August 11, 1896] -
A dispatch from Williamsburg says James Burnsides, colored, cut to death Sam Marburn, white, at Bird Eye mines, Sunday, and was lodged in jail last night. Burnsides was drunk and killed Marburn without speaking to him. They had never had any previous difficulty. The jail was partially destroyed by fire Sunday. A trusty set it on fire burning down a wasp's nest. []
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1896? Garrard.
[] Excerpt from "Somewhat Local." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 11, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-08-11/ed-1/seq-1/
[August 11, 1896] -
A dispatch from Williamsburg says James Burnsides, colored, cut to death Sam Marburn, white, at Bird Eye mines, Sunday, and was lodged in jail last night. Burnsides was drunk and killed Marburn without speaking to him. They had never had any previous difficulty. The jail was partially destroyed by fire Sunday. A trusty set it on fire burning down a wasp's nest. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1896? Garrard.
[] Excerpt from "Lancaster, Garrard County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. August 28, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-08-28/ed-1/seq-1/
[August 28, 1896] -
The indictment against Wm. Simpson, charged with being accessory to the murder of Wm. Cumley, was filed, on Tuesday, Jones, the principal, who has been sentenced for life, refusing to testify against him. []
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[] Excerpt from "Lancaster, Garrard County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 11, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-09-11/ed-1/seq-1/
[September 11, 1896] -
Henderson Jones has been sent to Frankfort to serve a life sentence for killing William Cumley. []
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1896? Garrard.
1896? Garrard.
[] Excerpt from "Lancaster, Garrard County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 11, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-09-11/ed-1/seq-1/
[September 11, 1896] -
Circuit court has adjourned. The jury, in the case of the Commonwealth against Sam Sutton, charged with murdering Bob Brewster, at Bryantsville, failed to agree, six being for the highest penalty and six for acquittal. He has been sent to the Richmond jail, while the jail here [Lancaster] is being repaired. []---
[] Excerpt from "Lancaster, Garrard County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 13, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-11-13/ed-1/seq-1/
[November 13, 1896] -
Your correspondent is indebted to W. B. Mason, the next clerk of the court of appeals, for the following statement of the docket for circuit court, beginning next Monday: Old Commonwealth cases 25; old common law 14; new common law 17; old equity 96; equity appearances 8. Sam Sutton, colored, is the only one to be tried for murder. []---
[] Excerpt from "Lancaster, Garrard County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 20, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-11-20/ed-1/seq-1/
[November 20, 1896] -
A jury was empanneled Tuesday for the trial of Sam Sutton, colored, charged with murdering Robert Brewster, near Bryantsville, some months ago. The trial last court resulted in a hung jury. The plea for the defendant was that the shooting was done accidentally. After argument by counsel the case was given to the jury Wednesday afternoon. They consulted about 30 minutes and brought in a verdict of 12 years in the penitentiary. []
A jury was empanneled Tuesday for the trial of Sam Sutton, colored, charged with murdering Robert Brewster, near Bryantsville, some months ago. The trial last court resulted in a hung jury. The plea for the defendant was that the shooting was done accidentally. After argument by counsel the case was given to the jury Wednesday afternoon. They consulted about 30 minutes and brought in a verdict of 12 years in the penitentiary. []
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1896. Garrard.
1896. Garrard.
[] Excerpt from "Lancaster, Garrard County." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 11, 1896. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1896-09-11/ed-1/seq-1/
[September 11, 1896] -
About 10:30 o'clock Wednesday, four shots were fired in the court-house. A crowd rushed to Judge Burnside's office and found Jettie Knox, a colored shoemaker, lying dead, with a pistol in each hand, and the judge with a shot in his arm and one in his thigh. Postmaster J. I. Hamilton had done the killing, having fired three shots, all of which took effect in Knox's head, and one, by accident, passing through the judge's arm. The shot in the judge's thigh was made by Knox, the judge being between them. Hamilton had loaned Knox some money to be secured by mortgage. The mortgage had not been fixed and hot words passed between them on Wednesday morning, when Hamilton left him. Afterward Judge Burnside told Hamilton that Knox was in his office to get a peace warrant. Hamilton said that was unnecessary, that he only wanted the mortgage. They approached the office and found Knox with a pistol in each hand. He snapped at Hamilton, who thinking he was shot, opened fire, with the above result. The coroner's jury adjourned at 2 o'clock Thursday, hoping to get a statement from Judge Burnside, who is resting well at this writing. Elder George Gowen saw Knox with a pistol in his hand some time before the shooting, and it will be proved that he fired a shot, at home, to test his pistol, and that he had made threats. The killing was undoubtedly done in self defense. Knox came here from North Carolina, about one year ago, and was regarded as a bad man, even among his own race. []
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1897. Whitley
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 9, 1897. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1897-02-09/ed-1/seq-1/
[February 9, 1897] -
A man named Litteral was arrested at Corbin for the murder of George Baker last summer. Baker was killed and his body placed on the track and run over by a train. while drunk a few days ago Litteral and his wife quarreled. His wife then told that he was the murderer of Baker. He was placed in jail at London. []
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[] Excerpt from "Mt. Vernon." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 19, 1897. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1897-02-19/ed-1/seq-2/
[February 19, 1897] -
The grand jury failed to find indictment against G. A. Parker for killing his father. []
1897. Whitley
[] Excerpt from "City and Vicinity." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 9, 1897. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1897-02-09/ed-1/seq-1/
[February 9, 1897] -
A man named Litteral was arrested at Corbin for the murder of George Baker last summer. Baker was killed and his body placed on the track and run over by a train. while drunk a few days ago Litteral and his wife quarreled. His wife then told that he was the murderer of Baker. He was placed in jail at London. []-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[] Excerpt from "Mt. Vernon." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 19, 1897. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1897-02-19/ed-1/seq-2/
[February 19, 1897] -
The grand jury failed to find indictment against G. A. Parker for killing his father. []
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[April 5, 1898] -
[] Excerpt form "More Pardons." Morning Herald, Lexington, KY. June 29, 1897. Page 3. Genealogybank.com.
[June 29, 1897] -
Inspector Lester left for Somerset, where he goes as attorney for Decker Perkins, on trial on a charge of murder. []
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[] Excerpt from "News in the Vicinage." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, Ky. April 5, 1898. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1898-04-05/ed-1/seq-1/
[April 5, 1898] -
The jury in the case of John Satterfield for killing Tom Smith in Pulaski failed to make a verdict after being out three days. Six were for acquittal and six for two years. Decker Perkins for killing John Holloway was acquitted. []
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[] Excerpt from "Somerset." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. September 7, 1897. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1897-09-07/ed-1/seq-1/
[September 7, 1897] -
George Roberts, charged with killing his nephew at Cumberland Falls a few nights ago, was arraigned before Judge Catron Saturday, but the case was continued for lack of witnesses. General opinion is that the deed was done in self-defense. []
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HENRY BURTON
Somerset, Ky. Dec. 4. -- In a dispute over a game of cards last night, between Henry Clay Burton and John Smith, Smith was killed. The trouble occurred at the home of Mac Smith, on the Cumberland river, in Wayne county. Both men concerned belong to highly respectable families. Burton made his escape. The country is aroused. []
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"Henry Burton." Morning Herald, Lexington, KY. December 4, 1897. Page 3. Genealogybank.com.
[December 4, 1897] -
HENRY BURTON
KILLS JOHN SMITH--FATAL TERMINATION OF A QUARREL IN PULASKI COUNTY.
Somerset, Ky., Dec. 3.-- Henry Clay Burton killed John Smith at the home of Mac Smith, on Cumberland river, in the edge of Wayne county, last night about 6 o'clock. The trouble arose over a controversy in regard to some discussion.
Burton immediately made his escape and is still at large. Both parties belong to highly respected families and great excitement prevails. []
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[] "Murder Over a Game of Cards." Breckenridge News, Cloverport, KY. December 8, 1897. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069309/1897-12-08/ed-1/seq-1/ (col3)
[December 8, 1897] -
[December 8, 1897] -
Murder Over a Game of Cards.
Somerset, Ky. Dec. 4. -- In a dispute over a game of cards last night, between Henry Clay Burton and John Smith, Smith was killed. The trouble occurred at the home of Mac Smith, on the Cumberland river, in Wayne county. Both men concerned belong to highly respectable families. Burton made his escape. The country is aroused. []
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[] Excerpt from "." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. November 29, 1898. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1898-11-29/ed-1/seq-1/
[] Excerpt from "." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. October 22, 1897. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1897-10-22/ed-1/seq-3/
Will Tuttle killing John Hamner in Boyle county; "to hades with his boots on"
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some reports say fatal wound, some say murder, but have not found any trial info
[] Excerpt from "Local Happenings." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 22, 1898. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1898-02-22/ed-1/seq-3/
[February 22, 1898] -
MURDER. -- Rockcastle had another killing yesterday. A dispatch says that at Mullins Station on the K. C., Geo. Durbin followed John Redwood to a tunnel where he and others were shooting craps and telling Redwood that he had come to kill him, pulled his pistol and fired the fatal shot. both were K. C. bridge carpenters. Durbin was arrested and jailed at Mt. Vernon. []
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[] "He Will Die." Morning Herald, Lexington, KY. February 22, 1898. Page 8. Genealogybank.com.
[February 22, 1898] -
HE WILL DIE
GEO. DURBIN MORTALLY WOUNDS JOHN REDMOND NEAR MT. VERNON.
MT. VERNON, Ky., Feb. 21.-- At Mullins' station this morning, John Redmond was shot and fatally wounded by George Durbin. Durbin and Redmond had a previous difficulty, and the former met Redmond today, when the quarrel was resumed. After telling Redmond he had come to kill him it is said Durbin immediately fired, the ball entering Redmond's breast. Durbin is now in jail. []
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[] Excerpt from "Local and Otherwise." Mt. Vernon Signal, Mount Vernon, KY. February 25, 1898. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069561/1898-02-25/ed-1/seq-3/
[February 25, 1898] -
Monday morning, near Withers, in a tunnel, Geo. Durbin shot and dangerously wounded John Redmond. It appears that they had a falling out the day before. Durham followed Redmond to the tunnel where he found him engaged with others shooting craps. Durbin said: "I have come to shoot you," and fired. The ball entered the lower portion of Redmond's breast. Durbin was brought here and jailed. []
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[] Excerpt from "State Items of Interest." The Central Record, Lancaster, KY. February 25, 1898. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069201/1898-02-25/ed-1/seq-2/
[February 25, 1898] -
Fatally Wounded.
RICHMOND, Ky., Feb 22.-- At Mullin's tunnel, a few miles south of here, two L. & N. bridge carpenters, named Durbin and Redmond, became involved in a quarrel, when Durbin shot Redmond, inflicting a fatal wound. Durbin escaped. []
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[] Excerpt from "Local Happenings." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. February 3, 1899. Page 3. LOC.
[February 3, 1899] -
In the Rockcastle circuit court Derben for shooting Redmon, near Mullins Station, in a quarrel over a crap game, was given two and a half years in the penitentiary. []
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[] Excerpt from "Matrimonial Matters." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 15, 1898. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1898-03-15/ed-1/seq-1/
[March 15, 1898] -
Unrequited love caused a man at Pittsburg to kill his sweetheart and then himself. []
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[] Excerpt from "Mt. Vernon." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 18, 1898. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1898-03-18/ed-1/seq-2/
[March 18, 1898] -
About 100 people assembled at the sink hole on Skaggs' Creek last Sunday to see Messrs. Marler and Moore descend over 200 feet in search of the remains of an unknown person who was supposed to have been murdered near there. Blood had been found spattered on the fence and coagulated in the road, but the case is yet shrouded in mystery for the bottom of the sink hole was not reached. Some newspaper man could get a sensational article if he would visit this spot with his kodak. [][] Excerpt from "Local and Otherwise." Mount Vernon Signal, Mt. Vernon, KY. March 25, 1898. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069561/1898-03-25/ed-1/seq-3/
[March 25, 1898] -
Deputy Woods Hopkins shot and killed J. F. Robinson, who resisted arrest at Lily last Saturday. []
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[April 4, 1898] -
The grand jury at Somerset returned an indictment against Mrs. Permelia Young charging her with beating Mrs. Rains, an old woman, to death, because she said that Mrs. Young's husband had stolen a sow. The old woman was found terribly beaten in a field and died shortly afterwards. []
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http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kylinco2/Newspaper_Articles/Stevens_George.htm
(Harrodsburg Democrat, Harrodsburg, Mercer Co, Ky Fri Aug 19, 1898)
"George Stevens, colored, aged 17 years, was hanged at Stanford yesterday morning at 9 o’clock." []
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[November 4, 1898] -
Clate Matthews was shot and instantly killed at Pine Hill on Wednesday afternoon and John Matthews mortally wounded by John Meadows. The difficulty took place on the depot platform over the alleged statement that Matthews had torn down some notices Meadows had tacked upon the school house door where Meadows is teaching. Meadows came to town and surrendered, and examining trial is set for tomorrow at 9 a.m. Judge Williams held an inquest Wednesday night. []---
[] Excerpt from "Local and Otherwise." Mount Vernon Signal, Mt. Vernon, KY. June 2, 1899. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069561/1899-06-02/ed-1/seq-3/
[June 2, 1899] -
A jury was secured in the John Meadows case Wednesday morn and was in progress when we went to press. []---
[] Excerpt from "Local and Otherwise." Mount Vernon Signal, Mt. Vernon, KY. February 23, 1900. Page 2. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069561/1900-02-23/ed-1/seq-2/
[February 23, 1900] -
The case of John Meadows, charged with the murder of Clayton Mathews, after being well argued by Messrs. Morrow and Bethurum for the defendant, and C. C. Williams and J. N. Sharp for the Commonwealth, resulted in a hung jury which stood one for 15 year, three for 2 years and eight for acquittal. []---
[] Excerpt from "Circuit Court." Mount Vernon Signal, Mt. Vernon, KY. June 1, 1900. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069561/1900-06-01/ed-1/seq-3/
[June 1, 1900] -
John Meadows, charge with murder, acquitted; []
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[November 29, 1898] -
Charles Marsee, for killing Richard Stapleton at Lily, Laurel county, was held in $5,000, which he gave. []
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[June 19, 1899] -
James R. Mills shot and fatally wounded Will Tomlinson at Providence meeting-house, this [Pulaski] county, this morning. Mills was brought to this place [Somerset] for safekeeping by a strong guard. Both are mere boys, Mills being only eighteen, and the wounded boy twenty. When interviewed the prisoner stated that he and a friend passed Tomlinson, and he called to him if he wanted anything he could get it, and on Mills paying no attention to him, Tomlinson ran toward him. Mills ran from him and tripped and fell. He fell on his back, and as Tomlinson came up with him Mills pulled his pistol and shot him in the side. It is thought that Tomlinson can not live. A friend of Tomlinson claims that Mills had been bullying a younger brother of Tomlinson. The pistol used was a cheap pattern bulldog. []---
[] Excerpt from "News of the Vicinage." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 20, 1899. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1899-06-20/ed-1/seq-1/
[June 20, 1899] -
Two tragedies are reported in Pulaski. Saturday night at Science Hill, Ross Meece shot John Haynes, from the effects of which he died in a short time. Both were drunk. J. R. Mills, 18, shot Will Tomlinson fatally at Providence church in the most cowardly manner. Both murderers were captured. []
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[June 19, 1899] -
BLOODSHED IN PULASKI.
ROSS MEECE SHOOTS AND KILLS JOHN HAYNES.
Two Boys Fall Out Over a Trivial Matter and One of Them Is Fatally Shot.
Somerset, Ky., June 18. -- [Special.] -- Saturday night at Science Hill, about seven miles north of this place, at a country party, Ross Meece and John Haynes, while drunk, got into a difficulty and Meece shot Haynes through the chest. Haynes was brought to the hospital at this place, where he died to-day from the wound. He was kept under the influence of morphine, and no statement could be secured. Young Meece is in jail at this place. [...] statement of a bystander Haynes [...] Meece approached him and Haynes spoke to Meece and called him a vile name. They became engaged in a scuffle, and the bystander heard a pistol fired, but was not able to see who fired it. The pistol was recognized as Haynes' pistol. Meece claims that it was accidental. Young Haynes was a member of the First Kentucky volunteer regiment, and was very popular. He has several brothers in this county. []
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[] Excerpt from "News of the Vicinage." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. June 20, 1899. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1899-06-20/ed-1/seq-1/
[June 20, 1899] -
Two tragedies are reported in Pulaski. Saturday night at Science Hill, Ross Meece shot John Haynes, from the effects of which he died in a short time. Both were drunk. J. R. Mills, 18, shot Will Tomlinson fatally at Providence church in the most cowardly manner. Both murderers were captured. []
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[] Excerpt from "News of the Vicinage." Semi-Weekly Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. July 11, 1899. Page 1. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85052020/1899-07-11/ed-1/seq-1/
[July 11, 1899] -
Ross Meece, who killed John Haynes at Science Hill, was acquitted at Somerset. The jury in the case of Colyer for killing Catron could not agree and was discharged. []
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[] "Old Trouble Renewed." The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY. October 19, 1899. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[October 19, 1899] -
Somerset, Ky., Oct. 18. -- [Special.] -- Ross Meece and William Haynes got into a difficulty this morning, which ended in the fatal shooting of Meece by Haynes. The trouble came up in Goodman & Waddel's store at this place. Haynes and his brother went to the back part of the store to get a drink, when they met Ross Meece. Meece, it is alleged, at once picked up a hatchet and started to throw it at Haynes. Haynes called to him not to throw, at the same time drawing his pistol. Meece threw the hatchet, nearly severing Haynes' ear. Haynes then fired three shots, two taking effect in Meece's neck and one in the body. The trouble grew out of the killing by Meece of Haynes' younger brother, at a dance last fall. Neither man was drinking, and both had come to town to the circus, apparently without any thought of a difficulty. Haynes claims that there were no words exchanged, and that as soon as he came in sight Meece picked up the hatchet.
A heavy guard was placed around Haynes, and he was sent to jail, without bail, Police Judge Waddel deeming it unsafe to allow bail, as the excitement was very high in town, and as Meece had several brothers and relatives, who were all in town. []
[] "Old Trouble Renewed." The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY. October 19, 1899. Page 3. Newspapers.com.
[October 19, 1899] -
OLD TROUBLE RENEWED.
William Haynes Shoots Ross Meece, Who Kills Haynes' Brother Last Fall.
Somerset, Ky., Oct. 18. -- [Special.] -- Ross Meece and William Haynes got into a difficulty this morning, which ended in the fatal shooting of Meece by Haynes. The trouble came up in Goodman & Waddel's store at this place. Haynes and his brother went to the back part of the store to get a drink, when they met Ross Meece. Meece, it is alleged, at once picked up a hatchet and started to throw it at Haynes. Haynes called to him not to throw, at the same time drawing his pistol. Meece threw the hatchet, nearly severing Haynes' ear. Haynes then fired three shots, two taking effect in Meece's neck and one in the body. The trouble grew out of the killing by Meece of Haynes' younger brother, at a dance last fall. Neither man was drinking, and both had come to town to the circus, apparently without any thought of a difficulty. Haynes claims that there were no words exchanged, and that as soon as he came in sight Meece picked up the hatchet.
A heavy guard was placed around Haynes, and he was sent to jail, without bail, Police Judge Waddel deeming it unsafe to allow bail, as the excitement was very high in town, and as Meece had several brothers and relatives, who were all in town. []
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[] "Throat Cut." Cincinnati Post, Cincinnati, KY. October 13, 1899. Page 6. Genealogybank.com.
[October 13, 1899] -
THROAT CUT
WIDOW ATTACKED BY A PAIR OF FIENDS.
SOMERSET, KY., Oct. 12. -- (Spl.) At Flat Rock, this county, 23 miles south, on the Cincinnati Southern, Mrs. Mason, a widow, was assaulted and her throat cut by two men, supposed to be white tramps. Mrs Mason has 10 small children. The woods and mountains are being scoured by bodies of men. A lynching is in prospect. Telegrams have been sent here for bloodhounds. []
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[] Excerpts from "Report of Persons Murdered in the State of Kentucky from July 1, 1867 to July 1, 1868." Report of the Secretary of War. Executive Documents of The House of Representatives during the Third Session of the Fortieth Congress, 1868-1869. Pages 191 to ___. Googlebooks.
Report is from a letter by S. Burbank with the Freedmen's Bureau who says it's an incomplete list of murders that have come to the attention of bureau agents.
Victim Name / Complexion / Murderer / Complexion / When / Where / Remarks
Albert L. Jones / White / Dr. Metcalfe / White / Aug --, 1867 / Garrardsburg / No indictment found.
Major J. H. Bridgewater / White / Tom Sanders, et al / White / Jully 18, 1867 / Lincoln County / Acquitted before the examining court. (sep. draft post in progress)
Courtney Green / colored / J. Brent Aikin / White / Sept. 1, 1867 / Boyle County / Acquitted by civil court; case carried to U.S. court (in leads)
2 men unknown / White / Unknown / ... / April 30, 1868 / Pulaski county / No arrest
James Cheaney / White / Andrew Decker / White / May --, 1868 / Pulaski county / in jail awaiting trial by civil court. (in reg. draft post)
James Baker / White / Unknown / ... / June 13, 1868 / Pulaski county / No arrest. (in reg. draft post)
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[] Excerpts from "List of Pardons." List of pardons granted by Governor Luke P. Blackburn, from September 3, 1879 to March 23, 1881. Kentucky Legislative Documents, Volumes 2 and 3. Pages 4 through 26. Googlebooks.
Date Pardoned / Name / County / Offense
Sept. 22, 1879. / A. G. Cosby / Boyle / Manslaughter (in leads)
Sept. 22, 1879. / James Bishop / Whitley / Manslaughter
Oct. 3, 1879. / William McCoy / Garrard / Murder (in leads)
Oct. 8, 1879. / Peter Goff / Rockcastle / Manslaughter (in leads)
Oct. 10, 1879. / T. F. Edwards / Boyle / Manslaughter
Nov. 14, 1879. / E. D. Kennedy / Garrard / Murder (in leads)
Nov. 14, 1879. / Wm. F. Kennedy / Garrard / Murder (in leads)
Dec. 19, 1879. / James J. Richardson / Wayne / Misconduct in office
Jan. 15, 1880. / John Cain / Lincoln / Arson (in leads)
Jan. 23, 1880. / William Mayfield / Garrard / Malicious wounding (in non-fatal)
Mar. 31, 1880. / Thos. J. Stone / Madison / Shooting and wounding
Apr. 12, 1880. / Aquilla Riddell / Pulaski / Manslaughter (in leads)
Apr. 15, 1880. / Shelt. Chambers / Madison / Malicious wounding
Apr. 25, 1880. / Robert Ferrill / Garrard / Concealed weapons
May 5, 1880. / Wm. Johnson / Rockcastle / Horse-stealing &c.
Jun. 14, 1880. / Logan Sally / Wayne / Malicious wounding (in non-fatal)
Aug. 28, 1880. / W. M. Howard / Laurel / Malicious shooting
Dec. 29, 1880. / Samuel Holmes / Pulaski / Manslaughter (view)
Jan. 29, 1881. / Lloyd B. McCurry / Laurel / Horse-stealing
Mar. 1, 1881. / C. K. Humber / Lincoln / Malicious wounding
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[] "Remarkable Contrast in Pardon Records." The Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY. August 29, 1903. Page 2. Newspapers.com.
Name / Crime / Sentence / County / Rec'd / Pardoned
Frankfort Penitentiary by Gov. Beckham
Ellis, Frank / Manslaughter / 21 / Lincoln / July 7, 1896 / May 8, 1900
Daugherty, H. C. / Manslaughter / 2 / Whitley / May 29, 1900 / Sept 13, 1900
Pence, Alex. / Manslaughter / 10 / Madison / July 27, 1899 / Nov 5, 1900
McDowell, Jno. / Murder / Life / Whitley / Oct 23, 1882 / Nov 29, 1900
King, John / Manslaughter / 21 / Whitley / Dec 19, 1893 / Jan 1, 1901
Ferrill, E. M. / Murder / 10 / Lincoln / Oct. 11, 1893 / June 1, 1901
Watkins, Jack / Manslaughter / 2 / Laurel / June 5, 1901 / July 16, 1901 (view)
Johnson, Morgan / Murder / Life / Rockcastle / Aug 25, 1884 / May 23, 1902 (view)
Bryant, J. C. / Manslaughter / 7 / Whitley / April 9, 1901 / Feb 9, 1903
Huffaker, Shelby / Manslaughter / 5 / Wayne / June 25, 1901 / Feb 24, 1903
Philpot, Millard / Manslaughter / 14 / Laurel / October 27, 1902 / March 14, 1903
Frankfort Penitentiary by Gov. Wm. O. Bradley
Fain, Wm. / Manslaughter / 17 / Rockcastle / Nov 23, 1892 / Dec 24, 1895 (view)
Washington, Geo. / Murder / Life / Whitley / May 5, 1885 / Jan 28, 1896
Doolin, Wm. R. / Manslaughter / 8 / Pulaski / June 27, 1894 / Mar 26, 1896 (view)
Spradlin, Eli. / Murder / Life / Whitley / Feb 22, 1886 / April 28, 1896
Hammer, John / Manslaughter / 2 / Boyle / Sept 30, 1895 / June 4, 1896
Cane, Pat / Manslaughter / 3 / Boyle / Feb 5, 1895 / July 14, 1896 (in leads)
Norfleet, Wyatt / Manslaughter / 2 / Wayne / Jan 30, 1896 / July 30, 1896 (view)
Coffey, Louis / Manslaughter / 2 / Wayne / Mar 11, 1896 / Aug 15, 1896 (in leads)
Crabtree, Peter / Manslaughter / 5 / Pulaski / Apr 18, 1895 / Sept 5, 1896 (need follow up)
Ward, George / Manslaughter / 5 / Boyle / Feb 1, 1893 / Sept 14, 1896
Woods, Horace / Manslaughter / 3 / Garrard / Sept 11, 1895 / Sept 16, 1896
Tuttle, Simeon / Manslaughter / 3 / Laurel / Nov 27, 1896 / Dec 3, 1896 (view)
Garth, Mary / Murder / Life / Pulaski / Nov 29, 1893 / Dec 3,1895
Barclay, Geo / Kukluxing / 3/4 / Rockcastle / June 3, 1896 / Dec 8, 1896
Freeman, John / Manslaughter / 21 / Madison / Sept 30, 1884 / Dec 10, 1896
Young, Charlie / Manslaughter / 2 / Laurel / Feb 23, 1896 / March 16, 1897
Adams, Jack / Manslaughter / 6 / Rockcastle / Feb 20, 1896 / April 10, 1897 (view)
Clark, Nancy / Concealing Birth of child / 1 / Laurel / May 29, 1897 / June 24, 1897
Tuttle, Alex / Manslaughter / 15 / Laurel / Feb 1, 1896 / June 24, 1897
Bowman, James / Manslaughter / 4 / Whitley / Feb 11, 1895 / Oct 7, (1897?)
Eldridge, Robert / Manslaughter / 5 / Pulaski / June 26, 1897 / Nov 6, 1897 (in leads)
Davis, Tolbert / Manslaughter / 5 / Pulaski / Nov 29, 1895 / Mar 23, 1898
Jarrett, John / Murder / 3 / Rockcastle / June 10, 1898 / Mar 24, 1899 (view)
Sharp, Albert / Murder / Life / Pulaski / May 1, 1886 / May 22, 1899 (in leads)
Green, Milt / Manslaughter / 5 / Laurel / Feb 27, 1899 / June 20, 1899
Young, Will / Manslaughter / 2 / Whitley / Jan 27, 1899 / Sept 19, 1899 (view)
Cox, Will / Manslaughter / 2 / Whitley / Jan 27, 1899 / Sept 19, 1899 (view)
Kidd, George / Manslaughter / 2 / Whitley / Jan 27, 1899 / Sept 19, 1899 (view)
Reedy, James / Manslaughter / 21 / Whitley / Aug 24, 1897 / Sept 22, 1899
Todd, William / Murder / 30 / Madison / Nov 1894 / Dec 6, 1899
Eddyville Penitentiary by Gov. Wm. O. Bradley
Ferrell, John / Murder / Life / Lincoln / May 6, 1879 / June 29, 1897 (view)
Merritt, W. R. / Murder / Life / Pulaski / May 8, 1883 / May 19, 1899 (view)
King, Isham / Murder / Life / Whitley / April 20, 1887 / Feb 29, 1896
Frankfort Penitentiary by Gov. John Young Brown
Dizney, Thos. / Murder / Life / Laurel / Nov 7, 1887 / March 10, 1892 (view)
Wilder, William / Manslaughter / 6 / Madison / Sept 7, 1891 / May 20, 1893
Henry, William / Murder / Life / Pulaski / May 14, 1884 / Aug 29, 1894
Fee, Granville / Murder / Life / Whitley / Oct 8, 1891 / July 3, 1895
Powl, Odie / Manslaughter / 8 / Lincoln / May 30, 1894 / Sept 24, 1895
Miller, William / Manslaughter / 4 / Boyle / February 1, 1893 / November 18, 1893
Morris, Robert / Manslaughter / 12 / Laurel / May 2, 1889 / Dec 6, 1893 (view)
Eddyville Penitentiary by Gov. John Young Brown
Coyle, Henry / Murder / Life / Pulaski / [blank] / [blank] (view)
Embry, James / Murder / Life / Lincoln / Nov 27, 1884 / Nov 13, 1893
Jones, C. Z. / Manslaughter / 3 / Pulaski / Oct 22, 1890 / Apr 24, 1893 (view)
Minor, A. F. / Murder / Life / Lincoln / Aug 17, 1883 / November 29, 1893
Leavell, G. / Manslaughter / 15 / Garrard / Sept 2, 1890 / Sept 13, 1893
Smith, Lewis C. / Manslaughter / 12 / Whitley / July 23, 1889 / Aug 20, 1893
Brooks, Richard / Murder / Life / Madison / June 27, 1879 / Nov 13, 1895
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