Beard, Bourbon News, July 11, 1905

 Swift and Speedy Revenge.

At Normandy, Spencer county, Ky., Chester Crawford, a young farmer, shot and instantly killed Lon Beard, a negro, who the night before attempted to assault Mrs. Crawford. Beard was being taken from Taylorsville to Shelbyville for safe-keeping and when the train stopped at Normandy Crawford stepped aboard and fired seven bullets into the negro’s body. He at once surrendered to the Sheriff, and after the Coroner’s verdict was rendered he was released on a bond of $1,000, signed by fifteen of the leading citizens of his neighborhood.