Since these articles are short, here are the rest of the news items re the Reeves... Sandi The Galveston Daily News Galveston, Texas Dec. 24, 1887 Met with Firmness A Mob Marches to a Jail but Marches Away Again Louisville, Ky., December 23 -- A special to the Courier-Journal from Glasgow, Ky., says: A mob of something less than one hundred men marched into Tompkinsville Wednesday night and marched out again - that was all. They came desperately determined and thirsting for the gore of five burglars and firebugs now behind bars of the county jail, but they found outside and in an armed guard every bit as determined as they were, and indeed a little more so. Turner Nelson and William Glazebrook and other sufferers and losers by the robbery and fire boldly confronted the mob and appealed to the excited men to let the law take its course with the prisoners, at the same time telling them emphatically that any attempt to do violence to them would be met with force from the guards, and that there would be more men killed outside than in the jail. The appeal or threats, or the two influences combined, had the desired effect and the mob sullenly dispersed and went its way. Citizens of Tompkinsville have declared their determination to protect the robbers from lynching and they will keep their word. Their conduct is highly commended in the face of the fact that many of them have been utterly ruined by these men and their little town crippled almost beyond recovery. That cool temper should prevail under these circumstances is unusual and remarkable. The robbers declared they had no intention of burning the town, or even the storehouse they burglarized. ============================ The News Frederick, Maryland Jan. 6, 1888 Three of Reeves Gang Sentenced Glasgow, Ky., Jan. 6 -- Three of the notorious Reeves gang received sentences aggregating thirty-one years' imprisonment each, for various burglaries and the burning of the court house at Tompkinsville, Ky. Two others of the gang are still in jail, but have not been indicted, the grand jury being now engaged in the investigation of the charges against them. ============================ ============================== Naugatuck Daily News Naugatuck, Connecticut May 13, 1901 A Desperado Killed Tried to Escape While Being Arrested for Murder Jasper, Ind., May 13 -- While being brought from the Indiana reformatory at Jeffersonville to this town last night, George Reeves, of the nortorious Reeves brothers, was shot and instantly killed by Deputy Sheriff Hutter near Huntingburg. Both George and John Reeves had worked off their handcuffs and both sprang from a carriage, in which they were being brought to this town. John Reeves was overhauled and captured. Deputy Hutter caught George Reeves, who clubbed the deputy with the handcuffs which he had retained. The deputy placed the revolver to his breast and pulled the trigger. The Reeves brothers were the last of the Jesse James type robbers. They robbed the Tompkinsville, Ky. bank of $40, 000 in 1887. They were captured and sent to Frankfort penitentiary, from which place they escaped about five years ago. They moved to Illinois under assumed names and were deacons in a church. They made periodical trips to Ohio and robbed small stores with which they refilled their depleted stocks at home. They were identified as the Reeves boys and taken back to Frankfort, but were released to stand trial for murder at Jasper, Ind. It was while being returned here that George Reeves was killed. Thank you Shawn for finding these! Sandi SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html