Breckinridge County KyArchives Obituaries.....PAYNE, Hewitt August 16, 1933 ************************************************ 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, 7:16 pm Courier-Journal Newspaper, Louisville, Jefferson County, Ky August 1933 LOUISVILLE WOMAN HELD FOR SLAYING HEWITT PAYNE Louisville, Ky., Aug 16. (AP)--- Mrs. Margaret F. ROGERS, 28, was held without bond today charged with slaying Hewitt PAYNE, 34, of Sample, Ky., by shooting him in the back at 1:20 a.m. today at the gate of her home here. Albert R. MASTERSON, 24, of West Point, a friend of PAYNE'S, was charged with accessory to murder, and released on $500 bond. An unexplained quarrel which arose during an automobile drive was blamed for the shooting. "Honey, It's All A Dream To Me." Mrs. ROGERS Says of PAYNE Shooting Held in the Jefferson County jail Wednesday night without bond for a hearing August 29 on a charge of murder. Mrs. Margaret F. ROGERS, 28 years old, 3031 Portland Avenue, when asked whether she fatally shot Hewitt PAYNE, 34, of Sample, Ky., said: "Honey, it's all a dream to me." When arraigned before acting Police Judge Huntoon McCANN, Mrs. ROGERS apparently was unperturbed by the charge that she shot PAYNE in the back in front of her home at 1:20 o'clock in the morning just as patrolmen William CHAMBERLAIN and William WEIGER were cruising past in a police car. Although the officers took the gun from Mrs. ROGERS, she professed ignorance of the shooting and met questions with, "I don't know anything." "It wasn't my pistol", and "No, I'm not talking." Albert R. MASTERSON, 24, of West Point (in Hardin County, Ky), a companion of PAYNE in a Louisville & Nashville Railroad bridge gang, was arraigned on a charge of accessory to murder, and he was released on $500 bond provided by his father, F. O. MASTERSON, West Point. WAS DRUNK, SHE SAYS--- In the interview at the jail, Mrs. ROGERS said, "I can't tell you a thing. We were all so drunk I don't remember anything. It will take me three or four days to get everything straightened out in my mind and then I may be able to tell what happened." The two patrolmen said they passed the home just as two shots rang out. They said they saw Mrs. ROGERS standing in the front door and PAYNE running through the gate. As a third shot was fired, PAYNE fell face down, the officers related. He died on the way to the City Hospital. Coroner Roy L. CARTER said a bullet from a .32-caliber automatic entered the back on the left side, and ranged upward, passing entirely through the body. Patrolman CHAMBERLAIN said that Mrs. ROGERS raised the automatic as he ran up the front steps, and he feared for a moment she might shoot, but she submitted calmly to arrest. MASTERSON told the authorities he and PAYNE drove in from West Point, reaching Mrs. ROGERS' home about 8:30 o'clock Tuesday night. He said they went for a drive, and called for Mrs. Sarah HUTCHINSON, 24, of 316 South Seventh Street, a friend of Mrs. ROGERS, and Miss Virginia Lee NUNNELEY, 19. He said they went to a friend's camp on the Camp Ground Road and drank some beer, returning at 12:30 o'clock. After stopping at a hamberger stand near Eighth Street and Broadway, MASTERSON said he and the two younger women came out to find PAYNE and Mrs. ROGERS on the sidewalk, apparently quarreling. He said they took Mrs. HUTCHINSON and Miss NUNNELLY home, and then drove to Mrs. ROGERS' residence. MASTERSON related that PAYNE and Mrs. ROGERS continued their argument. "She wanted some money from PAYNE, and there was no reason for him to give it to her. He wanted to leave, and she told him he couldn't. She was wearing his slipover sweater, and it took him some time to get it from her. Finally she ordered me from the house. As she was blocking the front door, I asked her how she wanted me to get out. "Get out", she said, so I pushed her aside and ran out of the front door." "I went out the front gate and around the side of the house. I heard sounds like they were scuffling, and Hewitt said, "Margaret, don't do that." Then I heard some shooting," MASTERSON declared. Patrolman WIEGER said that after Mrs. ROGERS was disarmed, MASTERSON peered over a fence and called, "Did she shoot him? You better get an ambulance." Mrs. ROGERS appeared in the Police Court without an attorney. Her husband, Bert ROGERS is a farmer at Glasgow. Her father, John DOWNS, 1824 Lytle Street, said the couple had been separated about a year, but that she occasionally visited him. Additional Comments: #0311 Sample Cemetery, (also known as Sample-Jolly Cemetery), located off Highway 259 at Sample in Breckinridge County, Ky. PAYNE, Hewitt 08 Aug 1892 -- 16 Aug 1933 (no dates on his tombstone) husband of Georgia "Georgie" BASHAM son of Jacob PAYNE & Harriet CLAYCOMB have the newspaper article about his murder have his death certificate he has a single tombstone PAYNE, Georgia "Georgie" 25 Jan 1889 -- 02 Nov 1976 (there are no dates on her tombstone) wife of Hewitt PAYNE daughter of Nathaniel Tucker BASHAM & Eliza Jennie ROBERTS have her obituary she has a single tombstone THEIR SON ALSO HERE: PAYNE, Franklin Moorman 22 Sep 1911 -- 08 Mch 1967 never married son of Hewitt PAYNE & Georgia "Georgie" BASHAM have his obituary he has a tombstone Veteran of the U.S. Air Force Peggy Russell File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/breckinridge/obits/p/payne10867gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/