Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-18
IN His DREAMS
He Sees the Spirit Of His limo
cent Young Victim.
Tortures of One of the Perry
County, KY, Murderers.

CHASTITY Visions which Appear to Thomas
smith Nightly at Hinciaester-All but
Four of the Entire Twenty-Iight Adj
mitted to BaiI-Joe Davidson Acquitted.
The state Not Satisfied.
WINCHESTER, Ky, Nov. iS.-All the
Perry county warriors, to the number
of twenty-eight, have been admitted to
bail, and have gone home, except four
Thomas Smith, Bob Profit, Henry
Fugate and Benton Brashears. The
first is considered the worst man I'M the
whole lot. He is said to have killed
several men during the feud, but the
foulest murder during the whole war
was that of young Nick Combs.
smiths CowardIy Crime.
On April 10. 1883, Joe Eyersole the
Origin al leader of the faction by that
na,ae, was riding through the woods
about five miles from Hazard, in COM
pany with Nick Combs, boy who had
no connection with either faction Tom
Smith and others had prepared an am
bush for the purpose of killing Eyersole,
but when he reached the latter, the spot
selected by his murderers, young Combs
was ON the side next the murderers. and
it was found necessary either to kill
Combs or let Eversole escape. 1t was
resolved to kill both.
Eversole fell dead at the first fire,
with bullet through his brain and an
other through the spinal cord. Young
Combs was desperately wounded and
fell from his horse. AS he saw Smith
approaching he begged piteously to be
spared, but with the remark that dead
men tell no tales, Smith took the pistol
of the fallen lad and shot him several
times in the face, killing him at once.
Since being incarcerated in Jail here
Smiths health has failed, and the Jail
authorities say he will not live long.
Each night in his dreams he sees the
murdered lad and his screams can be
heard outside the prison walls.
Joe Davidson Acquitted.
/. The trial of the celebrated Joe David
son for the murder of Ed Campbell of
Hazard, last November, was concluded
Saturday after a dramatic trial of ten
days, the jury returning verdict of not
! guilty The evidence was conclusive as
to the killing, but the court instructed
the jury that the prisoner had a right to
kill Campbell in defense of his brother.
Henry Davidson, who, with others of
the French faction, were besieged in the
residence of Jesse Fields, the jailor of
Perry county. It was proved that the
deceased, at the time he was killed, was
firing into the house from commando
ing position on neighboring hill.
State Dissatisfied.
The attorneys for the state are not
satisfied with the verdict acquitting
Joe Davidson and have taken an appeal
to the court of appeals. The constitu-
tionality of the statute by which the pris-
oners were transferred from Perry
county to this place, and which was de-
cided by Judge Morton to be constitu-
tional, is one Of the chief points at issue.
This is the first case under the law al
lowing criminals to be sent from a
county where anarchy and lawlessness
prevail to such an extent as to prevent
the enforcement of the laws to another
where justice can be administered with
out military protection. AS this ques-
ton is one of vital Importance to many
of the mountain counties, the decision of
the courto appeals will beawaited with
much interest.