Breckinridge County KyArchives Obituaries.....HAYCRAFT, Samuel October 7, 1922 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Peggy Russell meemawpeg7@gmail.com November 18, 2019, 4:03 pm Courier-Journal Newspaper, Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky October 7, 1922 VICTIM OF NEGRO TELLS OF ATTACK Rail Guard Dying In Hospital Here Shot 9 Times; His Friends Are Aroused BLACK HAS BEEN INDICTED Special to the Courier-Journal Stephensport, Ky.; Oct 6.-- Feelings are running high here as a result of the murder Thursday morning of Edward SAGO, and the probable fatal wounding of Samuel HAYCRAFT, railroad guards and residents of this section, by Charles MILLER, negro, now being held in the Hardinsburg jail. A spark seems to be all that is needed to set off the torch. MILLER was shot through the lung while engaged in a pistol duel with a posse seeking to effect his capture soon after the murder. Physicians at Hardinsburg say that he cannot live. Samuel HAYCRAFT, 58 years old, who was shot Wednesday night while guarding a bridge at Stephensport, Kentucky, when another guard, Edward SAGO, 56 years old, was murdered, is dying at S.S. (Saints) Mary and Elizabeth Hospital, Louisville. HAYCRAFT has nine bullet wounds in his body, and physicians say that there is no chance for him. HAYCRAFT told the story yesterday of the killing. The negro, who is believed to have had a companion, approached the two guards and engaged in friendly conversation. HAYCRAFT told the negro not to cross the bridge over the Henderson Route where he stood guard until the Evansville train passed. Just as the train passed, the negro suddenly stepped back and shot the aged guards in the back. HAYCRAFT SAID: "then the negro stepped back and shot me in the back with a pistol. After I had fallen, he took my own pistol and ammunition, and began shooting me, as I lay on the ground. With the pistol in his hand, he bent over me and took my watch and asked me if I had any money. He shot me again when I remonstrated while he was searching me." One shot in the back killed SAGO. HAYCRAFT lay on the ground after the negro believed him dead, and then crawled thirty feet to a camp fire the guards had built. He was found early Thursday morning, and a short distance away was the body of SAGO, who had apparently been instantly killed. The negro, Charles MILLER, who was captured by an Irvington Posse a short while after the killing, is now in jail at Hardinsburg for safe keeping. During the battle in which he was captured, he was shot in the lung, and he shot a member of the posse causing a slight wound. Believing MILLER to be the same negro who shot and killed Abe WILSON, another negro, at Orell Monday night, Captain David HELMERDINGER and County Patrolman, Ambrose HAGERMAN, left yesterday for Hardinsburg, the county seat of Breckinridge County, to look at the negro under arrest there. NEGRO IS INDICTED Special to the Courier-Journal Hardinsburg, Ky., Oct 6.-- The Breckinridge Grand Jury today returned an indictment of willful murder against Charles MILLER, negro, in jail here in connection with the slaying Thursday morning of Edward SAGO and the probable fatal wounding of Samuel HAYCRAFT, railroad guards, near Stephensport. MILLER, who is near death as a result of being shot while resisting arrest by a posse has repeatedly refused to make any statement in regard to the crime. Last night he sent for a colored minister. He admitted yesterday that he got the watch which was found on him, and which had been recognized by friends as belonging to HAYCRAFT, from a man on the railroad tracks, near Stephensport, but would give no details of the alleged transaction. Fear of mob violence have subsided and extra guards which were sanctioned at the jail last night, have been withdrawn. Additional Comments: #0311 Sample Cemetery, (also known as Sample-Jolly Cemetery), located off Highway 259 at Sample in Breckinridge County, Ky. HAYCRAFT, Samuel 15 Jun 1865 -- 07 Oct 1922 2nd husband of Mary Florence DOWELL son of Christopher HAYCRAFT & Mary CARMAN have the article about his murder have his death certificate he has a single tombstone HAYCRAFT, Mary Florence 03 Nov 1855 -- 16 Mch 1931 wife of #1- 2nd wife of Joel JARED/JARRED wife of #2- Samuel HAYCRAFT daughter of Charles Calloway DOWELL & Savannah NORTON have her death certificate she shares a double tombstone with her daughter, Ollie JARRIET on tombstone, JARED/JARRED, Ollie 27 Dec 1876 -- 14 Jun 1919 buried under her maiden name wife of #1- 1st wife of William H. "Bill" HAYCRAFT wife of #2- Columbus POLLARD wife of #3- Tilden William KELLY wife of #4- Robert DEMAREE daughter of Joel JARED/JARRED & Mary Florence DOWELL she shares a double tombstone with her mother Dana Brown & Peggy Russell File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/breckinridge/obits/h/haycraft10866gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/