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Found Hanging to a Limb. RUSSELLVILLE, Ky., July 16.--The body of Edwin Traughber was found hanging to a limb to-day in a thicket near Adairville. Last night masked men went to Traughber’s home at Adairville, and, after calling him out, tied his…

Held Without Bail. At the examining trial held at Russellville Tuesday bail was refused Frederick P. Apgar, Wm. B. Proctor, Moses Cook, Robert Henderson and Thos. Mackey, who are charged with the murder of Edwin Traughber, who was taken from his…

Lynched. Russellville, Ky., July 17.--The body of Edwin Traughber was found hanging to a limb in a thicket near Adairville. Sunday night masked men went to his home at Adairville and after calling him out tied his hands and feet and carried him to a…

25 GUARDS KEEP VIGIL AT MANCHESTER TRIAL Spectators in Clay Circuit Court Are Searched for Weapons MANCHESTER, Ky., Aug. 9 – Twenty five Kentucky national guardsmen kept vigil today as the first of a group of trials growing out of factional…

REQUEST FOR TROOPS FAILS Concurrence of Sheriff and Circuit Judge Needed CONDITIONS ARE CITED Guard Two Held in Slaying of Manchester Jurist Special to The Kentucky Post. FRANKFORT, KY., April 20 – Troops will not be sent to Manchester, Clay-co,…

WHITE KENTUCKIAN ON TRIAL FOR MURDER OF COLORED MAN MANCHESTER, KY., August 19 – (CNS Hugh Hornsby, white is on trial for his life in connection with the fatal shooting of Alfred Neal colored. According to prosecution witnessed, all white, Hornsby…

GOVERNOR ASKED TO SEND TROOPS TO MANCHESTER judge of the April term of Clay circuit court. Police Judge Stivers who was shot down on Main street in Manchester was a grand jury witness in an unsolved slaying. - Two Men Accused. MANCHESTER, KY.,…

JOHN BAKER HELD BY POLICE AT CINCINNATI CINCINNATI, July 12 – Police announced today they were holding John Baker, 42, a Tyner Ky., groceryman, for questioning in connection with the slaying in Manchester, Ky., last March of Police Judge C. P.…

FRANK M’DANIEL GIVEN LIFE FOR STIVERS MURDER (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) tomobile with frosted windows shot down Judge Stivers, a World War veteran, at the spot where Neal was slain while on his way to a fire reported of incendiary origin, that…

Assassins in Red Sedan With Painted Windows Abandon Motor In Madison. Special to The Courier-Journal. Manchester, Ky., April 16. – Police Judge C P. Stivers, 40 years old, a grand jury witness in an unsolved murder here, was assassinated at 8…