The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-12

! day has been referred to ever since in
| history of Louisville as Bloody Monday,
! and it killed Know Nothingism in Ken
| lucky.
A desperate political fight occurred in
| Lexington in the fall of 1888 in front OF
| the Phoenix Hotel. Thomas H. Green,
| q descendant of the Marshalls of Ken
lucky, and one Of the most bitter writ
ers Kentucky ever produced, was an
editorial correspondent of the old Gin
cinnati Commercial Gazette" There
had been an election that summer in
which the democrats were charged with
having practiced glass frauds, especial
| ly in Jessamine. 1t waf charged that
Lew Baldwin, a. prominent democrat OF
that county was concerned in these
frauds. Green wrote series of articles
which bristled with abuse of Baldwin
He also pried into his business record
and charged him with crookedness In
money affairs. This inceneed Baldwin
and he told his friends that he intended
to kill Green on sight They met on
the day of the monument to john Z.
Breckenridge was to be dedicated at
Lexington. The men were strangers to
each other. One of GREEN'S friends told
him that Baldwin was in town and
would kill him If he found him. Green
went to a pawnbrokers shop and bought
a pistol, which he put in his overcoat
pocket. In less than half an hour af-
terward he started to go from the Phoe-
nix Hotel to Cheapsde, where the
monument was to be unveiled. He bad
gone but few steps from the entrance
when he met Baldwin, and the latter
accosted him with the question.
rs this Thomas M. Green?"
Yes, sir, it is. Who are you?" came
the reply.
Green is deaf, and he put his hand to
his ear to catch the answer, which was:
II am Lew Baldwin, and think you are
a id scoundrel."
Baldwin then struck Green with his
fist, and at the came time drew his
pistol which was hammerless. He fall
ed to press the releasing spring. and be-
fore he could get his pistol Working
Green had his pistol out and was shoot
ing with rapidity and accuracy. His
second shot went through Baldwin's
heart Baldwin had got in one shot at
Green, but the latter recovered from
the wound
Another desperate hand-to-hand en-
counter was between Colonel William
Cassius Goodloe and Colonel Armstead
M, Swope. This was in the fall of 1889.
The government had just completed
new post office building at Lexington,
The upper rooms are used by the collec-
tor of internal revenue for the Seventh
District. Colonel Goodloe was then COL
lector. One Friday afternoon about /
O'Clock he came down stairs and went
to his box in the post office to get his
mail. Colonel SWope wac standing near
the box and talking through his own
open box to one of the employees in
side Addressing Colonel Swope, Colo
mel Goodloe said
"You> obstruct the way"
IT'S a matter of indifference if do,
replied Colonel Swope.
Instantly the men were fighting
Ioodloe with a large knife and Swope
with pistol Swope shot Goodloe in
he abdomen, and Immediately there
after Goodloe cut his pistol wrist caus-
ng him to drop the weapon. Then
5oodloe went at him and inflicted thir-
zen wounds, six of which were mortal, |
Swope died before any person could |
each him. AS Colonel Goodloe left the |
building to go to the office of a nearby |
loctor he waved his bloody knife over |
lis head, and exclaimed in -exultant !
ones:
He beloved like calf"
Goodloe died two days later.
The next political killing of any note /
vas the shooting Of Colonel John d.
sanford, In Covlngton by Senator Will
lam Goebel.--Letter to the New York
sun.