Traughber, St. Louis Republican, September 28, 1894

Edwin Traughber Murder. 

Prominent Kentuckians Said to Be Guilty of the Crime. 

Special to the Republic.

Clarksville, Tenn., Sept. 27.--Much excitement is reported from Adairville, Southern Kentucky, 35 miles from here, since the convening of the Criminal Court, concerning the trials of the prominent citizens of that vicinity who have been in jail for the past two months, charged with the murder of Edwin Traughber.

L. P. Apgar, manager of the Adairville Flouring Mills, Bud Cook and others are said to be guilty. It is stated that Traughber knew a good deal concerning the misdoings of a number of men of that vicinity, and he was mobbed on the night of July 15, taken a short distance from Adairville and hanged, his body being found suspended to a tree next morning. 

A thorough investigation resulted in the unearthing of the names of the parties participating in the crime, and a number were arrested and jailed without bond. It is thought that Apgar will receive a life sentence in the penitentiary, and that some of the other members of the mob will pay the penalty for their part in the crime with their necks. 

The interest in these cases is unbounded, as the making public of the names of the men who took part in this foul crime produced one of the greatest sensations ever known in Southern Kentucky.