One thousand Kentucky militiamen, with five tanks;, three field pieces and 37 machine guns, were ordered to duty at Lexington, Ky., when Edward Harris, above, went on trial for killing Mrs. Mary Bryant, her husband and their two children. Interurbans and buses did not carry passengers not the city and all person were kept away from the neighborhood of the court house. Conficts at the state prison where Herris was kept tried without success to lynch him.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, Feb. 4, 1926
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