From "Death Notices Abstracted from the Douglas Co. [MO] Herald 1887-1910" by Laine Sutherland (published 1996 by Dunrobin Products) p. 38 21 Jul 1892 Trials in Taney Colonel A. Harrington, George Pepperdine and Constable Sol Owens returned last night from Forsyth. Wehn they had driven about four miles from Forsyth Colonel Harrington was taken with a pain in his side which spread over that part of his body, partially paralizing his left arm and affecting his whole left side. No doctor or medicine could be obtained but he bravely bore up till he got to the city and last night he was feeling very ill and doubted whether he would be able to return to Forsyth Monday or not. Things are reported as being in rather a turbulent condition at Forsyth, and one person who has been there lately says that they kick up a drunken row about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and fight until dark. However, Constable Owens reports that there is very little trouble in the cases before the court, there being no guards employed only those who guard [George]* Friend in the hotel and there are only four of them. Colonel Harrington says that no one has been guarding him, as reported here. The grand jury has been in session during the past week and they have returned fourteen indictments for the murder of [Taney Co. Deputy George L.] Williams and sixteen for the murder of [John] Bright, fourteen of those indicted for the murder of Bright- being the same persons indicted for the murder of Williams. Those indicted for Williams' murder were [George] Taylor, [Madison] Day, [Lawson] Cupp, [Samuel W.] S.W., [Abraham Lincoln] A.L., and Mart Weatherman, Isaac and Frank Lewis, Joseph Kinyon, Isaac Stockstill, George Friend, and three others not yet in custody. Besides these, B. F. [actually D. F.] McConkey and L. B. [L. V.] Baker were indictments for the murder of Bright. Copies of the indictments were read to the prisoners yesterday morning and by the law they must plead at the end of forty eight hours. Court will convene at 9 o'clock Monday morning and the trials will be begun. They will be tried separately, but it is not known who will be tried first. ("Springfield Democrat" article reprinted in the "Herald") *According to "Bald Knobbers: Vigilantes on the Ozarks Frontier", Babe Harrington was assistant to the Taney Co. Prosecutor James Davis on this case. I've posted about this before--John Wesley Bright, in a fit of jealousy, killed his wife Matilda Gideon, and was subsequently arrested in March, 1892. The majority of the men indicted for Bright's murder were kin to Matilda, and busted into the Taney Co. Jail where Bright was being held and lynched him on 12 Mar 1892 in the old Forsyth Cemetery. Deputy Williams was shot during the jailbreak. The indictments, according to Ingenthron and Hartman's book, were handed down for George Taylor, Madison Day, D. F. McConkey, Reuben Isaacs, William J. Caudle, Lawson Cupp, Robert Stockstill, L.V. Baker, Charles H. Kinyon, Joseph A. Kinyon, JP A. L. "Link" Weatherman, Samuel W. Weatherman, Isaac Lewis, and Isaac H. ("Billy") Stockstill.