Word: denhardt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years since he was born in Bowling Green, Ky., 6 ft.-2 in., 220-lb. Brigadier General Henry H. Denhardt has made his mark in law, journalism, war and politics. He served ten years as Bowling Green prosecuting attorney, two terms as Warren County judge. With his brother, he has long published the Bowling Green Times-Journal. He organized a company in the Spanish-American War, served as major in the 3rd Kentucky Infantry on the Mexican border in 1916, went to France with it in 1918. In the St. Mihiel offensive he was cited for valor, promoted to Lieutenant...
...General Denhardt was divorced by his wife of 28 years. Last June he met Mrs. Verna Garr Taylor, reputed the most beautiful woman in two counties (Oldham and Henry). A respectable widow of 40 who was running her late husband's laundry business in La Grange, Mrs. Taylor soon became the General's dearest friend...
...evening last fortnight, after a day in Louisville together, Mrs. Taylor complained of a headache and General Denhardt took her out for some country air. Turning in a schoolyard five miles outside La Grange, his automobile battery went dead. Mrs. Taylor went to a nearby filling station for help. She looked, to a farm wife named Mrs. George Baker who was there, "very distressed." Mrs. Baker's husband got out his automobile, pushed the Denhardt car into his driveway. A passing motorist had offered to bring a new battery from town. The General and his companion settled down...
...later Farmer Baker's dog began to bark furiously. Looking out, Baker saw an automobile coming slowly down the road from town, thought it might be the battery messenger. Suddenly he heard a shot. He discussed it with his wife for three or four minutes, then started for Denhardt's car. Half way across his yard, he heard a second shot, much less loud than the first. Continuing, he found General Denhardt standing beside his car. The General asked for a flashlight, explaining that Mrs. Taylor had gone back up the road toward the filling station to look...
...Republican rival, Mayor William B. Harrison of Louisville, for the Governorship. Candidate Lafoon polled a 71,523 majority. At Bowling Green, election furor precipitated a shooting: a G. 0. P. worker named W. K. Dent sent five slugs in the general direction of one-time Lieutenant GovernorHenry H. Denhardt, Democrat. One bullet pierced Mr. Denhardt's lung. Worker Dent said a friend of Denhardt's had taken a shot at him the day before, that he was saved only by a pack of election cards in his pocket...