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 AMBUSH

CUTSHIN 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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