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"A blood-curdling story of murder comes from the neighborhood four
or five miles northwest of Cave City. In that neighborhood lived a man
named Lafayette Bogle, and with him another named John Fan. On last
Thursday evening Bogle and Fan started to Cave City together, and after
they had been gone from home a half hour or more, firing was heard and
screams. The next day Bogle was found shot through the back twice, the
ball of one shot lodging against the breast bone, and his head beaten
into a shapeless mass. A coroner's inquest was held, and a post mortem
examination made by Dr. Garnett of Cave City. A pistol and bowle knife
were picked upon the ground which were claimed by Fan, who came on the
ground while the inquest was being held. Fan was arrested and taken to
Hart County jail, being strongly suspected of being the bloody murderer.
Bogle's pocket book was found on the ground rifled of its contents. A
near neighbor says Fan came to his house about nine o'clock that night,
about half an hour after the murder was supposed to have been comitted,
and called him out and told him if any inquiry was made about him (Fan)
to state that he came to his house about dusk of that evening. The
presumption of guilt is so strong against Fan as to leave hardly any
room for doubt as to his being the perpetrator of the fearful crime. The
paties to this bloody tragedy are new comers in the neighborhood, having
within the past year or two moved in from Tennessee. It is hoped the
most rigid penalty will be meted out to the guilty party.
"Fan will have his examining trial at Munfordville on Saturday
next."
Glasgow (KY) Weekly Times, 12 Apr 1877.
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