Obits: Lindon, Lacy B., died 12/16/1954
Oct. 2002
Wolfe County, KY 

Submitted by: http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00001.html#0000062 
Wolfe County Genealogy and  Carole Bays
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Wolfe County News - 1954

FOUR MURDER SUSPECTS HELD TO CLARK JURY

Four men charged with willful murder in the fatal stabbing of Lacy B. 
Lindon, Thursday December 16, 1954, were held to the grand Jury of the 
April term of Clark Circuit Court at their examing trial December 21.

Hamp Hoskins, 49, and his two sons, Arthur, 23 and Sterling, 19 all of 
Madison County, and Harold Shanks, 32 of Clark County, were arrested 
shortly after the stabbing, which occurred in Berryman's beer tavern in 
Winchester.

Lindon, of Gillmore, Wolfe County, died at Clark County Hospital about 
an hour after he was stabbed four times, coroner James W. Bean said.

Shanks, who took the stand, December 21, said Lindon and an 
unidentified Wolfe County man and Arthur and Hamp Hoskins were in the restroom of 
the beer parlor at the time of the stabbing and that he (Shanks) was 
standing just outside the door of the rest room.

The commonwealth presented a knife which Winchester patrolmen said they 
found in the stove in the beer palor.  None of the Hoskins appeared on 
the stand at the examining trial.

The examining trial lasted about four hours.

FUNERAL RITES HELD SUNDAY FOR MR. LINDON

Funeral services were conducted Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. in the 
Daysboro Christian Church for Lacy Lindon, who died on Thursday, December 
16, as a result of knife wounds received in Winchester.  He was born on 
Jan. 15, 1907 and would have been 48 years of age if he had lived until 
his next birthday on Jan. 15.  He was the son of the late A.J. Lindon 
and Fannie Little Lindon.  He was married to Maude Vest on Jan. 9, 1926, 
who survives him.  They had no children.  He leaves a foster son, Roger 
Lindon, and two sisters: Mrs. Bonnie Higgins, Berea; and Miss Heddie 
Lindon, San Diego, Calif.: 33 nieces and nephews, also one brother, Mort
Lindon, of Gillmore.

He was a veteran of World War II having served overseas 24 months.  
Funeral was preached by Rev. Willie Taylor and burial was in the Hazel 
Green Cemetery under the direction of Hearne Funeral Home.


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