Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Publication Date
9-8-2008
Abstract
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1744. Record of trial held in Simpson County, Kentucky of William P. King, Charles Smith, Abraham Owen and seven others for the murder of Harvey King. Defendants and victim had all participated in a previous train robbery. Also includes a photocopy of The Life of King and Owen, Written by Themselves, Revised and Prepared by Rev. L. M. Horn, Explaining the Railroad Robbery and Murder of Harvey King (Louisville, Ky., 1867); and “‘A High Handed Outrage:’ The King & Owens Railroad Robbery of 1866,” a paper written about the case by University of Missouri-Kansas City student Lena White in 2017.
Disciplines
Criminology | Law | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William P. King, et al. (SC 1744)" (2008). Manuscript Collection Finding Aids. Paper 642.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/642
Trial record part 1
SC 1744 p 21-41.pdf (1321 kB)
Trial record part 2
SC 1744 p 42-61.pdf (1248 kB)
Trial record part 3
SC 1744 p 62-79.pdf (1038 kB)
Trial record part 4
SC 1744 p 80-102.pdf (1121 kB)
Trial record part 5
SC 1744 Life of King and Owen.pdf (1840 kB)
Life of King and Owen
Included in
Criminology Commons, Law Commons, United States History Commons
Comments
This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu