Famous Kentucky Tragedies and Trials

By L. F. Johnson.

A collection of important and interesting tragedies and criminal trials which have taken place in Kentucky. Tragic events in the history of our own State ought to serve a good purpose. Every event detailed in this work is given as a matter of history. Some allowance may be made for the ordinary exaggeration of the newspaper reporter who may have colored his story for the purpose of adding zest to it, but practically all the dates and a large part of the evidence have been taken from court records and the re- ports of the Court of Appeals. A few ' ' skeletons ' ' in the closets of prominent Kentuckians are exhibited to the present generation for the first time. These disclosures are not made for the purpose of humiliating any person ; they are given as historic facts in order that this and succeeding generations may upon the one hand emulate the acts of patriotism and upon the other be warned by the examples of sin and folly and tragic deaths of men, known as men of affairs. The tragedies and trials of prominent Kentuckians should be of interest to every citizen of the Commonwealth. The cases cited are confined to the families of Governors and other State officials, lawyers, judges and men of affairs, socially, politically and intellectually. Many of them are incidents which have occurred in our midst. Some of us have participated in them and have been a part of them and we know by observation, and some by actual experience, the motives, the impulses and the in- terests which have caused men to act. We know that a man in a normal condition often acts differently from what he does when in the extremity of death or when threatened by some great catastrophe.

Louisville, KY: The Baldwin Law Book Company, 1916. 356p.