===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: [email protected] From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [KYCHRIST] A Double Murder - 19 Mar 1860 This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CabinSue Surnames: Bowles, Hinsley, Broadbent Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.christian/4964/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Not kin to any of the participants, just ran across when looking at old copies of the Louisville Daily Journal dated 19 Mar 1860. A Double Murder - The Clarksville Chronicle gives the particulars of a most revolting case of double murder which occurred on Monday last in Christian county, Ky., about ten miles from Clarkesville. The scene of the tragedy was Hinsley's blacksmith shop. William Broadbent had separated from his wife, and she instituted suit for a divorce. Charles Bowles, who, we believe, boarded with Broadbent, was the constable who served the notice upon the husband, and when he had done so, Broadbent said to him - if it had been for you this would not have happened - alluding to the supposed intimacy between Bowles and his wife. Thereupon Bowles went away and returned with a double barreled gun, loaded with buckshot, renewed the subject, and, as Broadbent rose to his feet, shot him dead on the spot. Hinsley then said something about Bowles having done wrong, when the latter made demonstrations which induced Hinsley to run into the shop, which Bowles entered by the opposite door and presented his gun, which Hinsley seized and depressed so that when it fired the load entered his thigh instead of the breast. Hinsley had since died, and Bowles has escaped. END Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ===========================================