December 26, 2017

Tom Baughman Kills brother-in-law Ben Givens[?], Lincoln, 1877

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[January 5, 1877] -

SHOOTING. -- Tom Baughman, a man of color, shot and seriously wounded his brother-in-law, another colored man. The wound was in the abdomen. The difficulty arose out of a quarrel about the wife of Baughman, who was a sister of the man wounded, whose name is Ben Abrahams. The wife had left her husband, who tried to compel her to return, when her brother interfered, with the foregoing result. [1]





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[January 12, 1877] -

Tom Baughman, the negro man who fired a pistol ball into his brother-in-law last week, had an examining trial on Monday, and was held in the sum of $300 to await the action of the next grand jury, on a charge of wounding with intent to kill. [2]





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[March 23, 1877] -

Ben Givens, the negro man shot by Tom Baughman, another negro, sometime ago, died this week. Dr. P. P. Trueheart, his attending physician, had a post mortem examination of the wound, &c., but his discovery, for sundry reasons, has not been made public. The  man Baughman is in jail, awaiting the action of the Circuit Court. [3]




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[April 20, 1877] -

The Grand Jury have found indictments against the following men and their trials have been fixed for the present term on the days opposite their names:

Tom Baughman, colored, murder, 7th day.
Henry Green, horse stealing, 7th day.
Agnes Craig, grand larceny, 8th day.
Wm. Fowler, grand larceny, 9th day.
Andy Gentry, grand larceny, 9th day.
Biff Floyd, cutting, 11th day. [4]



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[April 27, 1877] -

The trial of Tom Baughman, col'd, for murder, occupied the Court the greater portion of yesterday, and the arguments having been completed it was given to the Jury at 6 o'clock, and then the Court adjourned till half past 7 1/2 o'clock. [5]




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[May 4, 1877] -

The trial of murder against Tom Baughman, colored, was pending as we went to press last week. The Jury brought in a verdict about 9 o'clock that night, fixing his punishment at 11 years in the Penitentiary. [6]




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[1] Excerpt from "Local News." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 5, 1877. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84038328/1877-01-05/ed-1/seq-3/

[2] Excerpt from "Local News." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. January 12, 1877. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84038328/1877-01-12/ed-1/seq-3/

[3] Excerpt from "Local News." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. March 23, 1877. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84038328/1877-03-23/ed-1/seq-3/

[4] Excerpt from "Circuit Court." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 20, 1877. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84038328/1877-04-20/ed-1/seq-3/

[5] Excerpt from "Circuit Court Notes." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. April 27, 1877. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84038328/1877-04-27/ed-1/seq-3/

[6] Excerpt from "Circuit Court Notes." The Interior Journal, Stanford, KY. May 4, 1877. Page 3. LOC. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84038328/1877-05-04/ed-1/seq-3/

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