Daily Republican., 1879-04-21
The Rloodly 0round.

all directions, Indicating that society
is terribly out Of joint somewhere.
1t is noticeable that the great majority
Of cases of Law wlessness occurred At the
South, though the South has not one
third the population Of the nation. So
common have murders and oulrages
become in some sections Of the South,
most notably in Kentucky, that human
life appears to be Of no account. A cor
respondent from Harrodsburg, Ken
tucky, 10 an exchange paper gives a
record of the horrible murders that
h ave occurred at that place and in its
vicinity, during the last seventeen
years, and he has found that forty-three
persons have lost their lives by violence
during that time, and out of that num-
Der only two persons were sent to prison
for their crimes. Some Of the tragedies
have been barbarous in the extreme.
Mrs. Tilford, a widow with seven chill
dren, having inherited hef husbands
estate, married again person named
Scott, a younger person than herself.
Scott deliberately provided himself with
a small arsenal, and set about extermi-
mating his wife's offspring, by killing
three of them outright and wounding
others. The motive OF this bloody deed
was to enjoy the property alone with
his wife, but a Kentucky jury, with
wonderful consideration, found him in
sane, it being held that an act so dia-
bolical could not be perpetrated by a
man in sound mind. Scott left his wife
and the State of Kentucky, and remov.
ing to Texas soon married again, but
how many more persons he killed there
is unknown. Soon after this fenoish
act and mockery Of justice man named
Davenport, a deputy Sheriff, had a
writ for the arrest of Isaac Gabbard,
but the latter hearing OF it armed him
self, and with friend, going in quest
of the Sheriff, shot him and his brother
dead. The murderers were both madt
out insane and escaped the hangman's
moose. But this was not the end Of thie
tragic affair, for man named Noel, a
friend Of the murdered Sheriff, havint
heard that Gabbard had threatened his
life, hunted him down and finding hin
unarmed put two bullets through his
heart, and Noel was never as much a.
arrested.
Still later on man named Time
leon Bosley was shot dead while COM
ing out of church by James lawson
who had an old grudge against
him. Upon another occasion neg o who
was quietly occupied in putting up a
fence, was killed by rufian in jocu
lar way, merely for the fun Of the thing
and to keep his hand in as the rutian
had not shot any body for six months.
No punishment followed any of these
outrages that we have named, but in
several ether in stances where II en- OF
low characters, esI Iecially if they hap
p mel to be negroes, shot anybody CT
committed any outrage, they were
caught an hanged by mois. So out
of joint has society becom. in that
dark and bloody gtound tnat if a man
b-longs to what is called go)d family
he can kill anybody with impunity
and the greatest punishment meted
out to him a jury will probably make
him out insane. Interest may be ex.
cited to know what is called bad fami
ly in Kentucky-probably ono thai
never committed a murder. The ceres
pondent referred to says he has NJ
reason to believe that Harrisburg il
different from other towns in the State
He ascribes most Of the homicdes ant
murders to tho drinking Of Bourbon
whiskey and he also thinks that a mai
who drinks that whiskey, lives in Sc
clusion and regularly votes the Demo
cratic ticket may possibly be spared t
see his thirtieth year.