LIST OF DEAD AND WOUNDED IN RESENT KENTUCKY FIGHTING
THIS IS FROM THE EVENING BULLETIN NEWSPAPER MAYSVILLE, KENTUCKY 15 February 1902
(This was before this bloggers time, and I only saw this in an old newspaper, and thought I would share it with you. With all of the CARNAGE talk about Chicago I was thinking we had some bad stuff happening in this area 105 years ago. JACKSBORO, TENNESSEE is mentioned in this newspaper article. I attempted to copy this story exactly the way is was in the original newspaper. Difficult to read some of this old stuff.)
Middlesboro, Kentucky February 14, 1902 .... Quiet has been restored in the neighborhood of Lee Turner's "Quarter House," three and a half miles from this city, where the fight occurred Wednesday between the Middlesboro officers and Turner's mountaineers. The ruins of the burned saloon and the stockade which surrounded it being the only reminders of the conflict which caused the death of five and probably six men and the wounding of three others. According to the latest reports the list of the dead comprises - Charles Cecil deputy sheriff - Frank Jonson - Mike Welch - Jeff Prader, and Perry Watson of Turners forces. The wounded are John Doyle, deputy sheriff probably fatally. L. Hopper and John H. Johnson mountaineers members of Turners band. Tom Russell a Turner man is missing.
No attempt has been made to capture Lee Turner. He is at Hancraft, Tennessee surrounded by his friends, and it is believed that a demand for his surrender would result in another desperate battle.
The posse which made the attract on "Quarter House" Wednesday evening has disbanded.
Lee Turner left for JACKSBORO, TENNESSEE 40 miles from Middlesboro to see about a law suit in which he is interested. Travel was resumed between here and Mingo mines, passing the runis of the "Quarter House", and all mountaineers who stood guard have vanished into the mountains. John Johnson was found near the "Quarter House" mortally wounded.
UPDATE FROM THE EVENING BULLETIN NEWSPAPER 19 June 1903
Lee Turner In Jail - Two Indictments Against Him as An Accessory to Murders.
Pineville, Kentucky, June 19. Lee Turner of "Quarter House" fame was landed in jail at this place Thursday evening by officers of JACKSBORO, TENNESSEE, where he was arrested several days ago and held for requisition papers.
There are two indictments against him in this county as an accessory before the fact of the murder of Deputy John Doyle, in the battle during which Turner's famous saloon was burned and a number of his partisans killed. His half-brother, General Turner, who was reported to have been killed by Lee, was landed in jail here several days ago to answer the indictment against him for the murder of Doyle and Cecil.
UPDATE THE PADUCAH SUN NEWSPAPER 20 January 1904
CONVICT TO TESTIFY
Eddyville, Kentucky January 20 -- Charles Powers, a convict serving a life sentence at the branch penitentiary for killing four men in the "Quarter House" fight in February, 1902 was taken by order of the Bell circuit court to Pineville, where he will testify in the case of the commonwealth vs Lee Turner, proprietor of the "Quarter House" who is now on trial for complicity in the notorious fight. Powers, who is related to Caleb Powers, has since his incarceration sustained a good prison record, although a typical representative of the Kentucky mountaineer. He strongly insists that Lee Turner was not at the "Quarter House" on the day of the fight.
THIS IS FROM THE EVENING BULLETIN NEWSPAPER MAYSVILLE, KENTUCKY 15 February 1902
(This was before this bloggers time, and I only saw this in an old newspaper, and thought I would share it with you. With all of the CARNAGE talk about Chicago I was thinking we had some bad stuff happening in this area 105 years ago. JACKSBORO, TENNESSEE is mentioned in this newspaper article. I attempted to copy this story exactly the way is was in the original newspaper. Difficult to read some of this old stuff.)
Middlesboro, Kentucky February 14, 1902 .... Quiet has been restored in the neighborhood of Lee Turner's "Quarter House," three and a half miles from this city, where the fight occurred Wednesday between the Middlesboro officers and Turner's mountaineers. The ruins of the burned saloon and the stockade which surrounded it being the only reminders of the conflict which caused the death of five and probably six men and the wounding of three others. According to the latest reports the list of the dead comprises - Charles Cecil deputy sheriff - Frank Jonson - Mike Welch - Jeff Prader, and Perry Watson of Turners forces. The wounded are John Doyle, deputy sheriff probably fatally. L. Hopper and John H. Johnson mountaineers members of Turners band. Tom Russell a Turner man is missing.
No attempt has been made to capture Lee Turner. He is at Hancraft, Tennessee surrounded by his friends, and it is believed that a demand for his surrender would result in another desperate battle.
The posse which made the attract on "Quarter House" Wednesday evening has disbanded.
Lee Turner left for JACKSBORO, TENNESSEE 40 miles from Middlesboro to see about a law suit in which he is interested. Travel was resumed between here and Mingo mines, passing the runis of the "Quarter House", and all mountaineers who stood guard have vanished into the mountains. John Johnson was found near the "Quarter House" mortally wounded.
UPDATE FROM THE EVENING BULLETIN NEWSPAPER 19 June 1903
Lee Turner In Jail - Two Indictments Against Him as An Accessory to Murders.
Pineville, Kentucky, June 19. Lee Turner of "Quarter House" fame was landed in jail at this place Thursday evening by officers of JACKSBORO, TENNESSEE, where he was arrested several days ago and held for requisition papers.
There are two indictments against him in this county as an accessory before the fact of the murder of Deputy John Doyle, in the battle during which Turner's famous saloon was burned and a number of his partisans killed. His half-brother, General Turner, who was reported to have been killed by Lee, was landed in jail here several days ago to answer the indictment against him for the murder of Doyle and Cecil.
UPDATE THE PADUCAH SUN NEWSPAPER 20 January 1904
CONVICT TO TESTIFY
Eddyville, Kentucky January 20 -- Charles Powers, a convict serving a life sentence at the branch penitentiary for killing four men in the "Quarter House" fight in February, 1902 was taken by order of the Bell circuit court to Pineville, where he will testify in the case of the commonwealth vs Lee Turner, proprietor of the "Quarter House" who is now on trial for complicity in the notorious fight. Powers, who is related to Caleb Powers, has since his incarceration sustained a good prison record, although a typical representative of the Kentucky mountaineer. He strongly insists that Lee Turner was not at the "Quarter House" on the day of the fight.
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