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CRIME HEADLINES 1916 - 1920
As reported in the Hazard Herald
CLAY COUNTY: D. M. BINGHAM, PROMINENT ATTORNEY OF LESLIE COUNTY, WAS SHOT AND KILLED FROM AMBUSHCUTSHIN CREEK: BEVERLY FELTNER WAS SHOT AND KILLED AT A DANCE
BRITT COMBS ENTERS INDUSTRIAL HOSPITAL AND TERRORIZES PATIENTS AND INSULTS NURSE
CARRS FORK: IT WAS REPORTED THAT LOGAN COMBS SHOT FOUR OF REMINES COMBS' SONS IN A LAND DISPUTE
BUD KOEGER WAS SHOT AND MORTALLY WOUNDED IN THE HAZARD TUNNEL
BILL ISON WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY DEPUTY SHERIFF LILLY WITT
DEPUTY SHERIFF TOM HOLLIFIELD HAS HAD A HARD TIME WITH WOMEN FIGHTING, SOME SERIOUS FIGHTS
E. WILLIS COMBS WAS STABBED TO DEATH ON MAIN STREET BY DAVE EDWARDS
MAIN STREET, CHIEF OF POLICE FLEM S. MESSER HAD HIS THROAT CUT BY DRUNKEN MINER
RHONDA LEWIS SHOT ANOTHER WOMAN NAMED BURNS TWICE THROUGH THE ABDOMEN AND THIGH
WILL BROWN WAS SHOT ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE POOL ROOM AT THE RESIDENCE OF DR. BRITT COMBS
WILL WARD SHOT TWO BOYS WITH BUCKSHOT WHEN THEY WERE IN HIS PEACH ORCHARD
JACKSON KY: HANNIBAL HURST WAS SHOT AT A NEW YEAR'S EVE DANCE BY ROBERT FROBES
KRYPTON: POLITICS CAUSES PISTOL DUEL, DR. YOUNG, FORMER DEPUTY JAILER OF THIS COUNTY, IS IN HOSPITAL
LOST CREEK; CAGER HOLLIDAY, A BYSTANDER WAS SHOT AND KILLED AT A CHURCH SERVICE BY GORDON WATTS
LOST CREEK: GREEN FUGATE, MAHONEY FUGATE AND DONER NEACE WAS KILLED, FOUR MORE WOUNDED IN OLD FEUD
LOTHAIR: A NEGRO KNOWN AS "SIX BITS" WAS KILLED AND ANOTHER KNOWN AS "PICK HANDLE SLIM" WAS WOUNDED
LOTHAIR: DEPUTY SHERIFF JOHN OLIVER WAS SHOT BY A BOOTLEGGER BELIEVED TO BE SAM TAYLOR
LOTTS CREEK: HARRISON BANKS WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY DEWEY STACY IN A QUARREL OVER SOME CORN
LOTTS CREEK: LABON DISHON, A MINER WAS SHOT AND KILLED, 19 MEXICAN WORKERS WERE ROUNDED UP AND BROUGHT TO JAIL
LOTTS CREEK: MRS. PEGGY DEAN CHOPPED MRS. MEADA RUCKER WITH AN AXE IN THE BREAST
ULVAH, LETCHER COUNTY: DAVID BAKER WAS SHOT TWICE ON A TRAIN BY JAMES CROCKETT
WILLARD CREEK; MOONSHINERS KILL ELIJAH FIELDS AND WOUND CONSTABLE JAMES DUFF
PERRY COUNTY MINER, MIKE NIERSTICK, AN AUSTRIAN, IS PUT IN JAIL IN HAZARD AS AN ALLEGED SPY
FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME THERE WAS NO KILLINGS IN PERRY COUNTY DURING CHRISTMAS
JOHN RATLIFF CONVICTED OF MURDER OF JOHN BAKER; IS TO DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR
HARLAN CO.: MURDER PROBE TO FIND KILLER OF LAURA PARSON, PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL TEACHER
JOE BOWLING, JOE ENGLE AND GRANT NORTH BROKE JAIL AND MADE THEIR ESCAPE
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