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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…

LIFE TERM UPHELD Frank McDaniel Must Serve His Sentence in Prison [Special to the Herald] FRANKFORT, Ky., Jan. 10. – The life prison sentence imposed upon Frank McDaniel by Clay circuit court for the murder of C. P. Stivers, police judge of…

JUDGE WAS IMPLICATED HARLAND, Ky., April 19 – Police Judge C. P. Stivers, slain at Manchester Saturday, was implicated in the sensational “Bath House slaying” at Lynch, Ky., in 1921 in which three men were shot to death.C. P. Stivers; his brother,…

WITNESS IN UNSOLVED SLAYING FATALLY SHOT Ill-Feeling Growing Out of Case Blamed for Death of Police Judge. By The Associated Press. MANCHESTER, Ky., April 16. – Police Judge C. P. Stivers, 40, a grand jury witness in an unsolved slaying here, was…

THE NECKTIE ROUTE. A Rope Placed Around Elmer Hill’s Neck and He is Jerked into Eternity. ABOUT THIRTY MEN DID THE WORK. The expected happened last Wednesday night when a mob of about thirty or forty citizens of Russell county visited the…

ELMER HILL IS HUNG BY MOB Was Taken Out Last Night at Monticello and Lynched. A mob at Monticello, Ky., last night found and took out of jail and hanged Elmer Hill, the white man charged with assault upon and the murder of his thirteen-year-old…