Breckinridge County KY
Crime News
Breckinridge County KY
Crime News
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania November 29, 1826
From the Kentucky Gazette of Oct. 27
Trial for Murder
We learn from Breckenridge county that the court of enquiry ordered eleven of
the miserable beings concerned in the murder of their masters, the two Mr.
Stones, Cobb, Davis and Gray on the 17th of last month on the Ohio river to
appear before the next circuit court is over; and we now learn that five of the
said eleven have been found guilty and condemned to be hanged some time in next
month. It appeared from the testimony on this trial that the plot was laid by a
few only, and that others were drawn into it with serious reluctance, while
others defended their masters will all the means in their power. [Submitted
by Nancy Piper; October 2010]
Attempts to Lynch a Murderer
Louisville, Ky., June 11- Joe Gray, a negro, who killed Miss Emma Gray, with a rock by horribly beating her on
the head at Hardinsburg, Ky., Sunday last, was brought there for safe keeping this morning. Breckinridge county
is much excited over the brutal murder. Two unsuccessful attempts were made to lynch. Gray, who was hidden, was
hurried away by the officers. [June 12, 1885, The Daily Gazette, Fort Wayne
Indiana]
PLACED IN JAIL
Cloverport, Ky., Aug. 29- W.W. Conley is in jail
at Hardinsburg awaiting trial on charges preferred by Mrs. Lilly Fagen, proprietor of the Kentucky Tar Springs, a health resort three miles south of this city. Conley
was arrested on warrants which charged him with using abusive and insulting language to Mrs. Fagen, with threatening
to destroy her property and threatening violence to Oceola Vanarsdale, Mrs. Fagen's brother. [August
29, 1904, The Newark Advocate, Newark Ohio]