My friends - As I continue to scour the larger, national newspapers for stories concerning happenings in the JP region, I came across an interesting item from The New York Times from 1887, concerning a discovery near Sharpe in Marshall County. The text of the story is shown below. I will continue to pass these little pieces of local history on, as I discover them. -B ==================================================================== A Strange Cave Discovered The New York Times 19 February 1887 "Sharpe, Ky., February 18th: The discovery of a large cave by two young men while engaged in preparing a piece of new land for a crop is the latest excitement here. A partial exploration developed the fact that the cave was made up of many rooms of great extent. A complete exploration will be impossible until certain large rocks are blasted or broken away. In one of the chambers there were found two human skeletons, about $600 in god and silver and a quantity of silverware. This newly found cave is believed to have been the hiding place during the late war of a band of guerillas known as 'Bloody Bill Brady's Gang'. These marauders were attached near Benton, Marshall County, in 1864, and all but two were killed. These two escaped, and going, as it is thought, to this cave, where they quarrelled over a division of the spoils of the gang and, following their murderous bent, shot and killed each other. Steps will be taken for a further investigation of the cave and its former occupants. It has been hinted that the cavern was most likely the headquarters many years ago of the notorious John A. Murrell, who robbed and murdered the people of this portion of Kentucky and the neighboring State of Tennessee." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++