General
Hatfield-McCoy
Last Public Hanging
Matewan Massacre
Prison Riot, 1973
Individual Cases
Miscellaneous

General

Hatfield-McCoy

Last Public Hanging

Matewan Massacre

Prison Riot, 1973

Individual Cases

Adkins Bankruptcy Case

• "Defendants Are Charged With List Of Crimes" (Adkins Bankruptcy Case)
• "Believes That Witnesses Have Been Intimidated" (Adkins Bankruptcy Case)
• "Margaret Adkins Tells Different Tales In Court" (Adkins Bankruptcy Case)
• "Nine Guilty, One Innocent, Verdict in Adkins Case" (Adkins Bankruptcy Case)
• "Judge Sentences 10 Conspirators" (Adkins Bankruptcy Case)

Axis Sally

• "Axis Sally Is Given 10 to 30-Year Term On Treason Charge"
• "'Axis Sally' Out After 11 Years"
• "Almost Silent 'Axis Sally' Gains Freedom"

Bloch Kidnapping Plan

• "Foiled Kidnapers Face Long Terms" (Plan To Kidnap Betty Bloch)
• "Seek Third Person In Bloch Kidnaping" (Plan To Kidnap Betty Bloch)
• "M'Kee Denies Nervous Plotter Gave 'Tip' On Kidnaping Plans" (Plan To Kidnap Betty Bloch)

Lewis Collins Murder

• "Merchant At Litwar Killed In Bed" (Murder of Lewis Collins)
• "Son-in-Law of Lewis Collins, Murdered at Litwar, Is Arrested" (Murder of Lewis Collins)
• "No Bond Is Secured For George Conley, Held For Murder Of His Father-In-Law, L. Collins" (Murder of Lewis Collins)
• "Mrs. Conley Suffers Loss O[f] Arm Thru Discharge Of Gun" (Murder of Lewis Collins)
• "Continuance Is Secured By State In Conley Case; Petit Jurors Discharged By The Court" (Murder of Lewis Collins)
• "George Conley On Trial For The Murder Of His Father- In-Law, Lewis Col[l]ins" (Murder of Lewis Collins)
• "George Conley Acquitted of the Murder of Father-in- Law, Lewis Collins" (Murder of Lewis Collins)

Counterfeit Ring

• "Alleged Counterfeiters Arrested at Northfork"
• "Two More Alleged Counterfeiters Pinched"
• "Two Women Inspiration for Counterfeiters"
• "Jack Wilson Head of Counterfeiters Admits His Guilt"
• "Long Sentences For Counterfeiters"

William Seymour Douglas

• "The Short Unhappy Life of William Seymour Douglas, Part One," by Frederick Nolan (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
• "The Short Unhappy Life of William Seymour Douglas, Part Two," by Frederick Nolan (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)

Great Train Robbery at Central Station

• "Great Train Robbery at Central Station"
• "Mystery of Train Robbery Cleared up in Confession"
• "H. Grady Webb Behind the Bars; Noted Prisoner Arrived Today"

Greenbrier Ghost

• Newspaper Articles on the Trial and Conviction of Edward Shue
• Death Record of Heaster Shue
• Sources on The Greenbrier Ghost
• "Can the Dead Return From the Grave?"

John Hardy

• "John Hardy Found Guilty of Murder in the First Degree"
• "All Were Murderers" (John Hardy)
• Hanging of John Hardy (Time Trail)
• John Hardy - Reminiscences of James French Strother

John Jennings Murder

• "Lynch Law" (Murder of John Jennings)
• "Lawlessness in Wetzel County" (Murder of John Jennings)
• "Excitement in Wetzel County" (Murder of John Jennings)

Harry Powers

• Execution of Mass Murderer Harry Powers (Time Trail)
• "Powers Kept Iron Nerve"
• "'Just What I Expected', Says Powers of First Degree Verdict"
• State of West Virginia vs. Harry F. Powers

J. P. Thatcher Murder

• Murder of Moundsville Town Sergeant J. P. Thatcher

Miscellaneous

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