DRAKE
HILL DRAKE
HILL DRAKE
A Todd County Murder
One Thursday of last week at Kirkmansville, in Todd county, two brothers
named Hurt, became involved in a quarrel.
Hill Drake, a colored man, was near them and attempted to quiet them
and asked them not to fight as they were brothers.
Charlie Hurt turned upon the negro, without further provocation, and
hit him a savage lick on the side of the head with a stick of wood. Bystanders
took the billet from him, but he immediately got another and again struck
the negro and then turned and ran off and is still at large. Dr. Bartlett
who was called in to dress the negro's wounds, pronounces them fatal as
the skull is fractured in two places.
Hopkinsville New Era Feb 1887
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