KYBRECKI-L Archives

Archiver > KYBRECKI > 2006-11 > 1163427879


From: "Joe Buford" <>
Subject: Re: [KYBRECKI] Shooting of Alexanders by Pooles in 1884
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:24:39 -0700


Would be interesting to hear the resolution os this case.

There was a shooting involving a possible ancestor of mine. Here is the information from that:

From: fern []
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 3:48 PM
To:
Subject: [BUFORD] Thomas Buford

Not too long ago there was a short discussion about Thomas Buford. He was the Buford who shot and killed Judge Elliott. I just found an article in my files that might interest some of you on this list. I have "Pasted" the article below::

Death of Colonel Thomas Buford.

Louisville, Kentucky., February 13, 1885 Col. Thomas Buford, the assassin of Judge Elliott, of the Court of Appeals, and a brother of Gen. Abe Buford, the Turfman, who committed suicide several months ago, died at the Anchorage Insane Asylum last night. He had been acquitted of the assassination on the plea of insanity and was committed to the Anchorage Asylum for safety. He escaped and lived in Jeffersonville, Indiana, for several months, but was compelled by poverty and ill health to return to the asylum about eight months ago. Buford was constantly sick. He was broken down in spirit, and
had no hope of ever leaving the asylum alive. He gradually wasted away
from chronic dysentery, and grew weaker and weaker. Of late he was confined to his bed, and had become very much emaciated. His mind. which seemed perfectly clear and strong on all subject accepts his legal misfortunes, was bright and unclouded almost to the last. Buford was one of the most notorious of Kentucky criminals. In the Spring of 1879 he shot and killed Judge Thomas M. Elliott with buckshot at Frankfort. Buford imagined that by a decision rendered by Judge Elliott himself and his sister had been defrauded of certain tracts of real estate worth, as he claimed, over $40,000. When the fatal shooting occurred Judge Elliott was standing at the foot of the stairway leading to the ladies entrance of the Capital Hotel. After Judge Elliott fell Buford approached the prostrate form and, lifting the hat from the dead man's head, said in a tone of bitter sarcasm, "I suppose you are satisfied now."
---------------
This appeared in the New York Times, Saturday, February 14, 1885. I might be able to answer some of your questions-- please contact me.



==============================
Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237




-----Original Message-----
From: "jwpoole" <>
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 1:37 AM
To: <>
Cc:
Subject: [KYBRECKI] Shooting of Alexanders by Pooles in 1884

Heard this story several times but never found anything in print or in court
records till now. The Pooles [Pool/P'Pool] involved were sons of James M.
P'Pool and Mary Masey. The Alexanders were children of Hardin Alexander and
Amy P'Pool. They were all relatives.... in-laws and cousins....great
story!!! John Poole is my great grandfather. He and his brother Charles
are said to have left for Texas the next day after the shooting.

Story came from newspaper microfilm from U of KY Library:

Tragedy in Breckinridge





An Elopement that resulted in the Wounding of the Bride and One Brother and
Another Brother's Death

[Breckinridge News]



Intelligence reached this city Sunday afternoon of a shooting affair near
Buras, this county, resulting in the instant death of Elisha Alexander, the
serious wounding of his brother John, and the severe wounding of Mrs. Chas.
Poole, the sister of the Alexanders, and wife of the shooting party. The
Particulars, as they reached us, are as follows:

Several months ago Charley Poole, a young man of the neighborhood, whose
attentions to their sister were displeasing to the young Alexanders, ran
away with and married the young lady. On the return of the young couple to
the home of the groom the Alexanders sent their undesired brother-in-law
warning that if he ever set foot on the Alexander place again it would be at
the peril of his life. Last Saturday young Poole and his wife, accomplied
by his brother John, attended a picnic in an adjacent neighborhood, and when
returning home that afternoon, in order to cut off some distance, they
turned into a field on the Alexander place and were riding across, when the
two young Alexanders espied them from the house and ran down to intercept
them. The Poole party saw them coming and having no doubt but they were
about to put their threat against Charley's life into execution, drew their
revolvers , and when the Alexanders came up and began abusing them for
coming on the place, opened fire. Elisha Alexander received three balls in
his neck and was killed instantly; John was seriously wounded in the hip or
lower part of the body, and Mrs. Poole, their sister, was struck by a wild
bullet and severely hurt. One report is to the effect that both of the
Pooles engaged in the shooting, while another version credits Charley with
all the firing. The Alexander boys, as we understand, were both unarmed,
and only intended to remonstrate with the Pooles for trespassing on their
property.

Hon. Green Beard arrived in the city about 10 o'clock last night, and says
that he passed through Garfield yesterday afternoon, and there learned that
the Pooles had neither surrendered themselves nor been captured, but were
evading arrest.



Owensboro Semi-Weekly Messenger, Tuesday, August 5, 1884.





--
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.3/530 - Release Date: 11/11/2006


-------------------------------
To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

_____________________________________________________________________
Get your own family web site at www.MyFamily.com!



This thread: