“A 29 year old Vanceburg housewife has been charged with second degree murder of a 10 month old baby in what police term a ‘weird’ incident.” “The circumstances- Mrs. Norma Jean Smith had arranged with a friend, Mrs. Helen McKinney, Carrington Street, to help with wallpapering a room at the Continue Reading
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Murder Case Set for Trial September 9
“Judge Blair set down the case of Nettie Baker Shumate, indicted for first degree murder, for trial September 9. A jury was ordered drawn and will report at 9 AM, September 9.” “Mrs. Shumate was indicted for the murder of John Morris, the barber. When her case was set for Continue Reading
West Side Wickness: Mr. John McDaniel in the Role of a Family Physician
“On the 12th inst., Mr. Jehu McDaniel, formerly Justice of the Peace in Union township, was arraigned before Squire Kelly on a charge of attempting to procure an abortion, preferred by a girl named Lucy Koch, daughter of Eli Koch, of Duck Run. It seems the girl had been living Continue Reading
The Bludgeon and the Bullet
“Last Tuesday morning about 11 o’clock, a part of young men were sky-larking on a boat at the foot of Madison street, and from friendly intercourse proceeded to harsh words, and afterwards adjourned to the shore and indulged in some vigorous shoulder-hitting. The principals seemed to be a young man Continue Reading
Moses Givens Near Death After Patricide
“Moses Givens, who was shot by John J. Key, on Saturday last, is an old man more than seventy years of age, and a most excellent citizen and christian. He is a native of Lewis county, where his family rank among the most worthy and respectable of its citizens. We Continue Reading
Blood for Blood: Lynch Law in Lewis County
“Our reporter learned the particulars from a passenger on the Carrie, last Wednesday, of twin tragedies that occured in Lewis county, Kentucky, last Monday and Tuesday, in which a life for a life was given. Washington Lee, the chief actor in the drama, was a white man living near Tollesboro, Continue Reading
Mrs. Baker Taken to Athens
“In charge of Deputy Sheriff Peter Smith and wife, Mrs. Nettie Baker, who was acquitted of the murder of John W. Morris by a jury in Judge Blair’s court last Wednesday, left Saturday morning over the B&O for Athens, where she was taken to be confined in the state insane Continue Reading
Family Feud Turns Deadly: Man Admits to Killing Brother in Argument
“A Hygean Run man was held Saturday night in connection with the slaying of his brother whom he admitted he clubbed to death with a rifle during an argument.” “William Franklin (Babe) Boyd, 24, also of Hygean Run, was killed about 9 PM Saturday in a scuffle on Route 112 Continue Reading
Shocking Murder In West End; John Morris Shot Down By Woman
“John William Richard Morris, aged 43, proprietor of the Star barber shop, was shot and almost instantly killed in his place of business in the Massie Block, on Market street, by Mrs. Nettie Collison Baker Shumate, aged 41, a comely grass widow, at 7:55 Wednesday evening.” “The murder came as Continue Reading
Dad Brown Fell From Grace Again and Is in the Station House.
Dad Brown, once a firefighter, was recently arrested along with Mandy Martin at her home in “Paradise Alley.” Previously incarcerated for “various infidelities,” he now faces another likely term in the Cincinnati workhouse. Both were seized in bed and detained by the police.