"A blood-curdling story of murder comes from the neighborhood four or five miles northwest of Cave City. In that neighborhood lived a man named Lafayette Bogle, and with him another named John Fan. On last Thursday evening Bogle and Fan started to Cave City together, and after they had been gone from home a half hour or more, firing was heard and screams. The next day Bogle was found shot through the back twice, the ball of one shot lodging against the breast bone, and his head beaten into a shapeless mass. A coroner's inquest was held, and a post mortem examination made by Dr. Garnett of Cave City. A pistol and bowle knife were picked upon the ground which were claimed by Fan, who came on the ground while the inquest was being held. Fan was arrested and taken to Hart County jail, being strongly suspected of being the bloody murderer. Bogle's pocket book was found on the ground rifled of its contents. A near neighbor says Fan came to his house about nine o'clock that night, about half an hour after the murder was supposed to have been comitted, and called him out and told him if any inquiry was made about him (Fan) to state that he came to his house about dusk of that evening. The presumption of guilt is so strong against Fan as to leave hardly any room for doubt as to his being the perpetrator of the fearful crime. The paties to this bloody tragedy are new comers in the neighborhood, having within the past year or two moved in from Tennessee. It is hoped the most rigid penalty will be meted out to the guilty party.
"Fan will have his examining trial at Munfordville on Saturday next."
Glasgow (KY) Weekly Times, 12 Apr 1877. |
