Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Rice, James  October 31, 1879
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The Ashland News
Oct 31, 1879, The Ashland News:

And old man by the name of Rice, was brought to town on Wednesday night, and 
lodged in jail He is changed with giving medicine to his stepdaughter Josephine 
White, to produce abortion. This is a true murder of the most outrageous type, 
and the extreme penalty the law should be meted out to him. 

Nov 7, 1879
James Rice, who was put in jail at this place on the 29th ult., for the crime of 
giving medicine to his stepdaughter, to produce an abortion, kept up a 
considerable noise for a awhile, and on Friday, morning when the Jailor. Wesly 
J. Gable carried up his breakfast to the prisoner, he saw the trap door of the 
Dungun open, and decided something was wrong, and thought the prisoner had made 
his escape. Mr. Gable called to a gentleman nearby and entered the jail and 
found the prisoner bad bung himself. He had made fast one corner of his blanket 
to the staple in the floor, and tied the other around his neck, and then dropped 
himself off into the Dungeon below. He was dead when he was found. An inquest 
was held in the evening, and the Jury found that he came to his death by hanging 
himself.


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