Booker and Annie Bell were second cousins, and she was in a family way. She was 25 and he was 17. Annie Bell's brothers threatened to kill Booker if he wouldn't marry her. Booker was staying with Powell McIntire and late on the evening of Dec. 17, 1895, he took Powell's shotgun, went about half a mile down the road to Annie Bell's house and shot her through a window as she was sitting by a lamp. He then ran down the hill and across Glovers Creek and hid under a bed at his father Hugh Steenbergen's house. A hastily organized posse soon found him and were considering hanging him from a large ash tree on the old Gibson place but Johnny Pickett Harrison persuaded them to surrender him to the authorities in Glasgow. Desire for a lynching was again revived and on the 28th of December a large group of the Capital Hill populace proceeded to Glasgow with plans for revenge (and whiskey) on their minds. Realizing the danger to Booker, and others, Circuit Judge Jones ordered that Booker be transferred to the jail in Louisville. The Sheriff and his party were nearly caught in their dash to the train station with the prisoner but finally made it safely. Booker was convicted, and served time in the Penitentiary at Eddyville. I don't know how many years he spent there but I was told several years ago by an old lady who was related to Annie Bell that Booker was eventually released, went to Missouri, changed his name to Steinberger, and became a successful businessman. She went on to say that he never married, but did raise two orphan boys. H D Harrison Capital Hill, KY hharrisn@scrtc.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> To: <KYBARREN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 12:28 AM Subject: Re: [KYBARREN] Annie Bell STEENBERGEN - 1895