Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Jordan, Buster May 17, 1940
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Linda Ayres http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00031.html#0007674 February 13, 2023, 8:53 pm

Ashland Progress
Hershey Horton, negro, with a record of having served several terms in states 
penitentiaries, is now in the Clay County jail with a charge of murder docketed 
against him for the fatal stabbing of Buster Jordan, another negro, in an 
altercation, which occurred in the western section of the city last Friday 
night. According to statements of eyewitnesses, Horton was said to have been 
drinking and threatening a disturbance, when Jordan and one or two other negroes 
attempted to persuade him to go home. According to witnesses Horton resented the 
interest shown by the negroes in his welfare and began cutting Jordan. He is 
said to have cut the victim until he fell, and then pounced on him and continued 
to cut, one of the knife thrusts severing Jordan's jugular vein, causing almost 
instant death. Horton left the scene of the fight, and officers were notified. 
The sheriff's force put the bloodhounds on the killer's trail and tracked him to 
the house where he resided, and to which place he had gone to evade the 
officers. The arrest was made within 30 minutes after the crime was committed. 
Horton will not be allowed bond and his case is scheduled to come up for trial 
at the fall term of Circuit Court to be held in October.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/clay/obits/j/jordan4343gob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/

File size: 1.8 Kb