One of the participants in the fracas at Kate Hoyt's "resort" was Joseph M Ballard (Sep 1965 - Feb 1909), son of Elijah M (obituary online) and Martha McBride, who was a builder and contractor in Shelbyville and never married. He also appears in the Arrest Journal a few months earlier, on 28 Oct 1905, but was found not guilty of "provoking". John