The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1883-06-12

woman, very popular with her female
friends, with the rare exception of
Jessie Buckner, who has, like dark
spirit of evil, thrown her shadow
across the threshold of more than
one family in Harrodsburg. What
mischief she may yet accomplish re-
mains sealed in the mysterious fut-
ure. The inquiry has been made,
why did not Walter Davis see Phil
Thompson or write to him and explain
ing the circumstances occurring in
Cincinnati on the 2Sth of November
1882. The following letter, addressed
to Thompson, was founL on Walter
Davis person after his death, and
was doubtless intended TO have been
sent to Thompson soon after it was
written, and why it was not sent is
explained by the extreme delicacy of
the subject of which it treats, and the
further tact that Walter Davis did
not believe Thompson gave credonce
to the foul story related by Jessie
Buckner:
HARRoDsBURG, April 27.-DEAR
PHIL: A mutual friend tells me
that Jessie B. wrote you that l had
gotten your wife drunk. Surely you
don't believe word of it. can sat
isfy you when | sec you that it is a
falsehood. / disliked to expose a
friend, and tell you of your cousins
predicament that night, but in self
defense will do so on sight. Yours,
WALTER.
Appended is a letter from I. j,
Fisher, which states that the evening
before Davis was murdered, he
spoke to him in regard to Mrs,
Thompson and said that 81 will hold
up my hand and swear that so far as
any criminal intimacy with her is
concerned / am innocent, and I could
convince Phil Thomson of it in five
minutes talk" Fisher told him he
thought it was due Mrs. Thompson
that he should talk with Phil He
said it was a delicate subject to ap-
proach man on, and that the treat
ment he had received from the
Thompsons since the alleged occur
renee proved to him they did not be-
lieve the story. w. L. Walters cor
roborates this statement. Another
gentleman states that Davis protest.
cd his innocence of any wrong IL
Mrs. Thompson and that her pres
ence in his room was due to the fac
that they could not gain admittanc,
to Miss Buckncr's room.
Mrs. Thompson certifies that it il
all fabrication of Jessie Buckner t,
separate herself and husband ant
Walter Davis and wife that Waite
Davis never told her there was any
wreck on the road that they asket
him to call and go to the thcate
with them and they were not drunk
either of them, and they could moi
get IN Miss Buckner's room whel
they returned from the theater; tha
Walter Davis was killed an innocen
man; that she will swear until he
death that he was perfect gentle
man, and devoted to her husban,
and self, and that he spent time ant
money in electioneering for him, ant
that his seat in. congress to-day is du
to the Davises' influence and thei
money.
Mrs. Davis concludes as follows:
This is the whole story. Is it pos
sible that a gentleman cannot WIT
propriety invite lady to his roor
on a cold night, when no other fire j
convenient, and when she is barre,
admission to- Miss Buckner's room
Is it necessary to kill a man, an
heap SANDER and aspersions on hi
, name when the bullet has forevt
: sealed his lips and the only livin
f witness is suppressed by the jude
J who presided at the trial? If this j
= so and Kentuckians look on with al
proval, then indeed is "justice fed I
british beasts, and men have 10
their reason.'
LAvINA II. DAVIS.