The Ashland Tragedy: Murder, Mob & a Militia in Kentucky (True Crime)

By: E. Joe Castle

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Synopsis: This true crime history recounts the notorious nineteenth-century murder of three Kentucky children and the shocking aftermath once arrests were made. On Christmas Eve 1881, a horrible crime shook the small town of Ashland, Kentucky, and captivated the entire nation. Three children were brutally murdered and their house set ablaze. Nothing in the small town&’s past had prepared it for what followed. Three men were convicted of the crimes, and two were sentenced to death. But the murderers were protected by the governor&’s untrained militia, which would eventually turn their guns on Ashland&’s innocent citizens. Much of these events were recorded at the time by James Morgan Huff, founder of the Ashland Republican newspaper, in a booklet titled The Ashland Tragedy. Now author and Ashland native H.E. &“Joe&” Castle builds on Huff&’s work to reveal the full, true story of one of the darkest chapters in the history of Kentucky.