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A TRIO OF KENTUCKY *lt;UR--KER8Uet Thflr Nfcki Mrcu livtl Acwrdlug %• til** Sl» I.tiMH.LOCVTIUJC. Fob. #.-r-Will Into Puckett was hanged at Irvine. K v.. Friday, for the murder of Wiilliun Hall. Ti e exocutlou t/* *k plitoo at IJ :i0 o'clock and Puckett* neck was broken.The crime for which Puckett wns hanged wa* committed on Nor ember election dav, im». a quarrel began Ikv twoeu W illiam Ambrose and Tubs? Puckett, on one hide, ami William Hail. over 1 a knife wiiivh Ambrose Puckett aocuscd liall of having, lie «ud he did not have liib kuifo.Ambroid said: I know d— well that you have. and atxnck ut Hall with hie hid, knockiu# him down, and Ambrose ■truck ii;ill with the club once or twice about the shoulder* aud head. William Puckett then struck Hall with a clnb [ ou the head aiul lull wan knocked over . on his hand and knees, and Tulie Puck-©tt struck him with a club and William Puckett kicked him.Hitli wen. from the road down the hill, with the tbiee Pucketts after aud •inking him with clnhs, llall got down i in the hollow below the road and was bronght by some jvirties back to the place of voting and sat down on a pile of rails. Hu was earned home and died next day.i Puckett was tried in Septemlier. 1891.. His defend was that, he got drunk on i election day aud did not reinemtor strik-lug liall. he was promptly convicted.
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Maysville Evening Bulletin
Maysville, Kentucky, US
Sat, Feb 06, 1892
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