Extracts of The Bullitt Pioneer 1901-1909 - Bullitt County Public Library

victim of an assault by Mary
Thompson, a Negro woman.
Irvin was a farmer of some
prominence and lived with his wife
about three miles from Lebanon
Junction. The negro family of
Thompson lives near, and although
Irvin had been in the habit of hiring
them to work for him, recently some
trouble had come up and he had
forbidden them to put foot on his
land. This, however, had apparently
been patched up until Tuesday. A boy
of Thompson's borrowed a pair of
plyers (sic) from Irvin and failed to
return them. When asked for them,
the boy said he had brought them
back, and when Irvin remonstrated
with him, went to his home and told
his mother that he had been abused.
She found out that Irvin was at work
in his melon patch and she went to
where he was working and began
using abusive language. He ordered
her to leave, she would not leave, he
went to where she was to make her
go, when she clinched him to her and
almost half severed his head from his
body. Although nearly blinded and
suffocated from the loss of blood,
Irvin managed to call for his wife and
to crawl a few steps as she hurried
out to meet him. She arrived just in
time to lift him in her arms and see
his life ebb from him.
The Negro woman went to her home
where the officers from Lebanon
Junction found her and placed her
under arrest without any resistance,
took her to Lebanon Junction and
placed her in the calaboose there
instead of bringing her to the county
jail as should have been done. About
2:30 Wednesday morning, a mob of
about 150 man went to the jail, broke
open the door, took the woman out
and hanged her to a tree at the jail
door. She weights about 250 pounds
and this fact saved her life. The rope
broke and the woman started off on a
run down the street. A fusillade of
shots went after her, and she fell in
the dust with two bullets in her. The
mob thought her dead and dispersed,
but when the officers got to her, she
was alive. She was immediately taken
The Bullitt Pioneer, 1901-1909
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in charge of Deputy Sheriff Campbell
and Dawson and a physician
summoned, who pronounced the
wounds serious though not
necessarily fatal. The negress was
brought here Wednesday evening and
placed in the jail under the care of Dr.
S. W. Bates, who says he thinks she
will be all right provided pneumonia
or blood poisoning does not set up.
Mr. Irvin was well connected. One of
his brothers is an officer of Nelson
county, and he is a relative of Messrs
Boone and Wilson Summers of this
county. The remains were taken to
Bardstown Wednesday for interment.
***June 17, 1904 (Pg. 8)
***Wilson Creek
John Harned sold six calves to G. M.
Abell.
R. K. Ricketts sold cow and calf to
Geo. M. Abell.
Taylor Masden visited Will Simon.
Mrs. J. Masden Visited Mrs. Preston
Samuels ?
Fronie Masden visited her parents.
Robt. Rhoades sold a cow and calf to
Geo. Abell.
R. R. Ricketts visited R. Ludwick at
Cox's Creek.
Mr. & Mrs. R. Masden, of Lebanon
Junction, visited H. B. Waters.
Mrs. Gussie Barnes visited her
mother, Mrs. M. M. Ricketts.
Miss Burchell visited her brother, Joe
Burchell at Snake Creek.
Mrs. Wm. Simon, of Cane Run,
visited father, Taylor Masden.
Mrs. Cassie Brown, of Maxville, Ky,
visiting daughter, Mrs. L. Duvall.
Heizer Hall visited relatives in
Danville.
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Mrs. Chas. Maraman and Miss Annie
Duvall visited relatives near
Balltown.
***On the Hill
Joe C. Dickey is sick.
Miss Rosa Hough who has had the
measles is up again.
Rob Bridwell visited brother, Ed
Bridwell.
Rob, Hugh and Straus Hall were in
the city.
Rob Hall visited brother, Dug Hall.
Virgil and James Price visited Hugh
& Straus Hall.
Mrs. Lizzie Hall and daughter, was
the guest of Mrs. Kate Hall.
Mr. & Mrs. Haydon Bridwell visited
relatives near Smithville.
Mrs. P. A. Armstrong and daughter,
Blanche, visited Mrs. Nannie Smith.
Mrs. Harriet Bobbit, and two
grandchildren, visited Mrs. Sallie
Stirger.
Hermon and Ida Mothershead, and
Miss Ora Lee Queen visited Miss
Mary Owen.
Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Owen, Katie Hall,
Len Fisher, Albert Fisher visited
Henry Owen.
Mrs. R. K. Hall and children, and
Mrs. Ellen Hall visited Mrs. J. C.
Dickey.
Miss Birt Harris, of Mt. Washington,
Mr. Jones, of High Grove, Tom
Owen and Albert Fisher visited Miss
Mary Owen of Coon Hollow.
***June 24, 1904 (Pg. 1)
***Zoneton
Miss Nettie Taylor has the measles.