Nancy Johnson Murdered at Mount Vernon Furnace wife of Robert Johnson.
Crimes
Louis Hilgenberg Murder – Andrew Price Hanging
This story is about the Oct. 1868 murder of Louis Hilgenberg at South Point, Lawrence County, Ohio, by two men, Jerry Spears, age 40 years, and Andrew Price. Jerry Spears was given life in the Ohio...
Alleged Murder Trial of Dr. A. V. Gates Wife
Dr. A. V. Gates, of Proctorsville, Lawrence County, Ohio, who has been charged with poisoning his wife, as mentioned in a dispatch from here yesterday
At The Penitentiary
Last week, we commissioned a special reporter to take a look at the boys now serving a term in the penitentiary from this county. He reports as follows:
Prisoners of Lawrence County, Ohio
1834 – 1898 Lawrence County Ohio Prisoners were abstracted from the original Penitentiary’s Register of in Columbus. 1834-1905 can be found
Collier and Davis Kidnapping
Two persons, named Collier and Davis, kidnapped a colored man in Lawrence County, Ohio, a few days ago.
Duel of Amazons in Athalia Ohio 1889
News has just reached here of a terrible duel between two young women near Athalia a village twenty miles from here, last Sunday night. Bettie Bower and Julia Rucker got into a dispute
Booker Smith and Daniel Hankins Jr. Fisticuffs
Booker Smith & Daniel Hankins Jr. were found guilty of the crime of fighting in Lawrence County, Ohio 3 Sept. 1828. Send to jail for 5 days and pay costs.
FBI Holds 47 In Ironton, Ohio
FBI agents swept up 47 prisoners in a sudden smash late last night at what it called far-flung white slavery operations centering at Ironton, Ohio.
Who Killed Andrew Boggs 1836
About sixty years ago there moved to what is now called Macedonia, a colored man named Andrew Boggs or Box, as the people called him. He came from North Carolina and had the blood of three races in his veins white, black, and red. His wife was almost white.
History of Burlington, Ohio Jail
Ordered that the first business to be acted upon is to precede to make the sale of the jailhouse of the town of Burlington to be sold to the lowest bidder and the clerk of said board to make the sale of the same at two o’clock in the afternoon on the said day. Preceded to make the sale of the log part of the jailhouse and made the sale of the same to John Morrison, the legal purchaser to build the log part of the said jail agreeable to contract for the sum of three hundred and thirty-four dollars.
Jesse Rule Murdered at Catlettsburg, KY
Jesse Rule, 42 years of age and married, was stabbed to death at Catlettsburg, Ky. at four o’clock Friday afternoon by Fred Burchett.
Brother of Waterloo Wonders Star Killed
Brother of Waterloo Wonders Star Is Killed in Courthouse Argument in Lawrence County Ohio. Bert McMahan was allegedly shot by Charles Roach
Colony Club Gambling in Chesapeake, Ohio
45 slot machines and arrested eight men at the Colony club here last night in Chesapeake, Ohio 1949
Marshall of Proctorville Ohio Murdered
Proctorville Ohio Town Marshall Shot and Killed in 1916