Since the crimes both of you have mentioned happened in the 20th century, the trial records should still be available. When we all do genealogy research, we are accustomed to just viewing Civil Records. Ask to view the indexes for Criminal Court. There may be several different records and courts from which you can view the indexes. Once you do that, you can ask them to pull the case. I have read criminal court cases back into the 1860s and 1870s. They are fascinating. Don't fail to check the Supreme Court records in the State Archives as well. You definitely should be able to find those old trial transcripts. They may be a bit more difficult to find if the trial was moved on a change of venue to another county. But the records should state to which county the trail was transferred. Good Luck! Loretta ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hall, Lisa" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 9:10 AM Subject: RE: [TNBEDFOR] Crimes against Law Officers > What was the paper called before 1920? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martha Mendez [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 9:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [TNBEDFOR] Crimes against Law Officers > > > Hi Lisa, > > This was probably reported in the Nashville Tennessean. If you get a > change > to go to Tennessee State Library and Archives. I find a LOT of > information > that way. I also take the index to the death records and then look up > the > obit. Since they give the counties it makes it SO MUCH easier. > > Nashville Tennessean. Ja 19 1920 - present. d. > > Continues Nashville Tennessean And The Nashville American. > > Title varies: Tennessean > > TSLA HOLDINGS: Ja 19 1920 - present > > Later, > Marty > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hall, Lisa" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 5:49 AM > Subject: RE: [TNBEDFOR] Crimes against Law Officers > > >> This is interesting to me, as I have a great-grandfather who was >> convicted of killing two Shelbyville (or Bedford County??) policemen > on >> October 31, 1911. There are conflicting stories as to why this >> happened, but our family has said that bootlegging and betrayal were > the >> motivating factors. >> >> Marion Anderson spent over 20 years (maybe 30 years) in state >> penitentiary for these murders. >> >> Does anyone have any info or insight into this incident or the >> participants (especially Marion Anderson and family)? I understand >> Marion may have had a brother in Shelbyville who was a barber, but > don't >> know his name. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Martha Mendez [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:20 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [TNBEDFOR] Help With A Branch of My Family - Chambers >> >> >> Hi Lucy, >> >> There is a newspaper clipping on this. (My grandfather is Sam > Helton >> <grin>. When you get ready for the rest of the story send me a > private >> E >> mail). I also remember reading where Wiley sold some property right >> after >> this shooting, so it was apparent he was trying to raise some money. > As >> to >> what happened in the trial I don't have a clue. Do you know? >> >> Later, >> Marty >> >> 3 Johnnie E. Barlett b: Aug 1888 in Tennessee >>> ................ +Sumner A. Dillard b: 05 Mar 1883 in Tennessee d: >> 02 >>> Mar >>> 1936 (he was Police Chief and was shot and killed by Wiley Troop) >> >> Shelbyville Gazette - March 5, 1936, page 1 >> >> POLICE CHIEF DIED FROM GUN SHOT WOUND SUNDAY >> >> Wiley Troup charged, with first degree murder, bound over to circuit >> court >> >> Shelbyville and Bedford County people were inexpressibly shocked and >> grieved on last Sunday morning to learn that S.A. Dillard, police > chief, >> was >> dead from a gun shot, alledged to have been fired by the hand of Wiley >> Troop. >> The report of the shooting is as follows: >> Chief Dillard was killed Sunday morning at about 11 o'clock as he and >> patrolman J.W. Drake were bringing two prisoners to the city after >> arresting >> them on Sims road, 2 1/2 miles from town. >> In the auto with Chief Dillard were Patrolman Drake and two prisoners, >> Sam >> Helton and Miss Hazel Lee Delffs. >> Chief Dillard and patrolman Drake, while inside the city limits, >> recongized >> a passing auto occupied by Helton and Misses Delffs as a liquor car > and >> gave >> chase, Patrolman Drake reported. >> The chase continued outside the city limits and ended on Sims road > when >> >> Patrolman Drake shot down two tires on the liquor car. Two and one > half >> >> gallons of whiskey were found in the car. The car was owned by Troop, >> Patrolman Drake reported. Chief Dillard and Patrolman Drake were >> putting >> Helton and Miss Delffs into the police car when another car arrived at >> the >> arrest sceen, occupied by Troop and two other men. >> The two officers, with Helton and Miss Delffs as prisoners, had driven >> several hundred feet back toward the city when Troop fired at their > car >> three times with a 25 - 20 calibre rifle, Patrolman Drake reported. >> One of the bullets entered the rear of the car and went into Chief >> Dillard >> head behind his right ear. He died instantly, Drake said. The Chief >> was >> sitting on the right and of the rear seat with the two prisoners and >> Drake >> was driving at the time. >> A splinter of the bullet hit Drake on the neck, but he was not badly >> injured. >> "The chief died instantly, Drake said." "As soon as Troop shot I >> stoped >> the car and lay down across the hood of the car waiting for him to > come >> down >> the road, with my gun ready, but he cut across a field and went > another >> way." >> Troop was arrested and hour and a half later by Patrolman Drake and >> Patrolman A. Reynolds while he was in route to the county jail to >> surrender. >> He had telephoned Sheriff T.E. Gant that he was on his way there to >> surrender, it was reported. >> Troop was held without bond on a charge of murder. >> No inquest was ordered. >> Helton and Miss Delff were charged with felonious transportation of >> whiskey. The woman has been released under bond. Bearden and > Trolinger >> >> were arrested on charges of aiding and abetting, first degree murder, >> and >> released under bond. >> Dillard has been chief of Shelbyville police since last October. He >> had >> formerly been a carpenter. He was a member of the Christian Church >> here. >> Survivors include his wife and a son. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 2:49 PM >> Subject: [TNBEDFOR] Help With A Branch of My Family - Chambers >> >> >>> Hi Everyone: >>> >>> My father's words are echoing in my ears "if you don't publish your >> data >>> ... >>> it is not worth the paper it is written on." So, I have decided to >> move >>> forward with publishing my book on the Dunaway family of Bedford >> County. >>> >>> Needless to say, there are many allied family names including the >>> Chambers. >>> Unfortunately, I am finding very little on this family other than >> vital >>> statistics -- which makes for a VERY dry book. >>> >>> So, can anyone: 1) Fill in any of the blanks for this family? 2) >> Know >>> any >>> living descendants of this family? 3) Have any stories involving >> this >>> family? 4) Or by some miracle, have any photographs of these > people? >>> >>> Descendants of Harrison C. Chambers >>> >>> 1 Harrison C. Chambers b: 1822 in Tennessee d: Bef. Mar 1858 in >> Bedford >>> County, Tennessee >>> .. +Mary N. Angeline Dunaway b: 15 Dec 1825 in Tennessee m: Bef. Oct >> 1850 >>> in >>> Tennessee d: 06 Aug 1911 in Tennessee (her parents were John Dunaway > & >>> Margaret Gordon) >>> ..... 2 Margaret Julia Chambers b: 08 Mar 1852 in Bedford County, >>> Tennessee >>> d: 08 Jan 1916 in Camp White, Bedford County, Tennessee (where is > Camp >>> White????) >>> ......... +Jno. W. Bartlett b: Abt. 1852 in Tennessee m: 21 Oct 1875 >> in >>> Bedford County, Tennessee d: 13 Nov 1890 in Tennessee >>> ............ 3 Willie E. Barlett b: 1876 in Tennessee >>> ............ 3 Mary Beulah Barlett b: 1878 in Tennessee >>> ............ 3 Myrtle Barlett b: Jul 1881 in Tennessee >>> ............ 3 Johnnie E. Barlett b: Aug 1888 in Tennessee >>> ................ +Sumner A. Dillard b: 05 Mar 1883 in Tennessee d: >> 02 >>> Mar >>> 1936 (he was Police Chief and was shot and killed by Wiley Troop) >>> ................... 4 Mike Dillard >>> ............ 3 Unknown Barlett >>> ..... 2 Robert Newton Chambers b: Sep 1853 in Tennessee d: 1926 >>> ..... 2 Samuel H. Chambers b: Sep 1855 in Tennessee d: 1930 >>> ......... +Mollie Henley b: Sep 1865 in Tennessee m: 19 Sep 1888 in >>> Bedford >>> County, Tennessee d: 1942 >>> ............ 3 Spencer Eakin Chambers b: 28 Mar 1890 in Tennessee >> d: 04 >>> Feb 1960 >>> ................ +Winnie F. b: 20 Aug 1894 m: Abt. 1916 d: 10 Apr >> 1959 >>> ................... 4 Virginia L. Chambers b: Abt. 1917 in > Tennessee >>> ................... 4 Robert L. Chambers b: Abt. 1928 in Tennessee >>> ............ 3 Robert Walton Chambers b: Sep 1896 in Tennessee >>> ..... 2 Infant Chambers b: Unknown >>> >>> I believe some of the early branches of this family lived in District >> 5 -- >>> around Burns Chapel and Deason areas. >>> >>> Any help would be MUCH appreciated, >>> Lucy Dunaway Zeier >>> [email protected] >>> "Remember me in the family tree-- >>> my name, my days, my strife; >>> then I'll ride upon the wings of time >>> and live an endless life." >>> Goetsch >>> >>> >>> ==== TNBEDFOR Mailing List ==== >>> Visit the TNBEDFOR-L mailing list archives: >>> >>> Searchable: >>> http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=TNBEDFOR >>> >>> Threaded Searchable: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNBEDFOR >>> >>> ============================== >>> View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, > find >>> marriage announcements and more. 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