Yes, I put that in my file. Holly Timm wrote an article about him on the Harlan site and she has the history of that whole Turner family which is very good. Barbara On Jan 13, 2008 11:17 AM, Bailey Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > In 1869, James Turner murdered his first cousin, David Middleton. > David's widow brought a suit (here is the footnote) for damages which > included a bill from Dr. A.C. Price for 'one bottle of medicine and > dressing wounds,' an indication that the wounds were not immediately > fatal. Davids's sister-in-law, Narcissa, states, "Shortly after the war > James Turner publicly and in cold blood murdered David Mddleton my > husband's brother for which he now stands indicted in the Harlan Circuit > court, and for which the widow of dead David Middleton now has a suit > pending for damage in the Clay Circuit Court against James Turner, being > taken there by Turner on a change of venue and as my husband was > attending to said suit and prosecuting said indictment it became a fact > that his life should pay the penalty." At end of book it says: James > 'Devil Jim" Turner was paroled on the 6th of August in 1890. He and his > son Hiram went west to the state of Washington. Sometime after early > 1909, James suffered a stroke and fell in to a wood stove, suffering bad > burns from which he died in Toledo, Washington. A descendant of his son > Hiram says that "they supposedly found $800 stuffed in one of his shoes > when he died." Devil Jim's final resting place is in the Toledo Cemetery. > > "Devil Jim Turner---Outlaw", was published by Footprints P & R. > Harlan Circuit Court, Box 15, case dated 1872. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >