Johnson County KyArchives Court.....Caudill, John  February 1898
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Source: Big Sandy News February  18th 1898
Written: February 1898

Paintsville: John Caudill, a mere boy, was arraigned yesterday before Judge 
Literal, charged with murdering his aunt. Mrs Nancy, wife of Chas. Fitzpatrick. 
he was held for manslaughter, and his bond fixed at $500. It was shown by the 
testimony that the boy’s aunt was reprimanding him for some past misbehavior and 
her husband overhead their talk and became excited and rushed in from his room 
and after some talk with the boy, attempted to wring his nose but missed his 
nose and pinched his check instead, then clasped the boy, pressed him to the 
jam, struck the back of his head against the chimney until his nose bled, 
slammed his face against the floor he snatched up a jug and struck at his 
uncle’s head with it but missed him and struck his aunt a severe blow, from the 
effects of which she died within five days. It also appeared from the testimony 
that from the beginning of the fight between the boy and his uncle, the aunt 
held to her husband and begged him to let the boy alone, and she told the boy 
after she was wounded that she did not believe he intended to hit her and that 
she did not want him punished for it.

 

2nd article:

In Johnson county last week John Caudill killed Mrs. Charles Fitzpatrick. During 
a fight between Caudill and the woman’s husband she ran in just as the former 
was in the act of striking Fitzpatrick with a jug, and the blow fell on her 
head, crushing the skull. Two important witnessed skipped out at once to avoid 
testifying.

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