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From: "Beverly L. Pack" <>
Subject: John PACK - Sentenced to Prison Jan 12, 1912
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 12:04:20 -0500


Does anyone know who this John PACK & wife are??????

"BIG SANDY NEWS, Louisa, Lawrence Co, KY. January 12, 1912 - LAWRENCE
CIRCUIT COURT –

The jury in the case of the Commonwealth against JOHN PACK for shooting and
wounding his wife was not long in making a verdict of guilty and it is said
that if the woman had died a verdict of murder with the death sentence would
have been returned just as quickly. Pack’s sentence will be from one to
five years.

Lawrence County juries are not easily impressed by pleas of unsound mind.
The attempt of Pack to kill his wife was savage and cruel. She had left him
because of his ill treatment and was living with relatives on Brushy not far
from her former home. Selecting a time when he believed his wife was alone,
Pack went to the house and at once began his bloody work and the poor woman
begging him to stop and crying for help. He fired five bullets into her
frail body, the last one being fired as she was sinking to the floor. Pack
then turned the weapon to his own throat. The ball ranged upward, lodging
in the skull from which it was extracted a day or two afterwards. He was
brought to the Louisa Hospital where he was treated several weeks and then
lodged in jail.

Mrs. Pack was brought to the home of a relative in this city, where under
skillful care and treatment she slowly recovered."

NOTE: The next paper briefly stated that he had been taken to Frankfort to
serve his prison term.

Beverly L. Pack
Main Lines Researching: PACK, ADKINS, CHANDLER, HEWLETT
Looking for any info on PACK

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