Word: denhardt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November of last year Kentucky was shocked when one of its most prominent citizens got into serious trouble. Brigadier General Henry H. Denhardt, strapping 60-year-old War veteran distinguished for valor, was co-publisher of the Bowling Green Times-Journal, had been an able lieutenant-governor of the State. Divorced in 1933, he courted a comely widow named Verna Garr Taylor. One night Mrs. Taylor was found shot to death on a dark road, with the general and his automobile nearby. The pistol which had killed her was the general's and the coroner found traces of gunpowder...
...April, General Denhardt was tried for murder. The jury disagreed. The dead woman had three brothers who muttered, but kept their own counsel...
This week Kentucky was shocked again and General Denhardt's troubles were over forever. Free on $25,000 bail, on the eve of a second trial, he was walking with an attorney on a dark street in Shelbyville. Three men got out of a car, fired a fusillade of shots. Seven bullets struck Denhardt, and he died almost instantly. Within a quarter hour the sheriff had taken Mrs. Taylor's three brothers-Jack, Roy and E. S. Garr-into custody...
Interviewed by newshawks in his office at the Winterhalter School, Janitor Denhardt calmly displayed his two caps (one with a special officer's badge for directing traffic), a tin lunch bucket, a neat list of his day's duties beginning "Faucets to be repaired," a pile of English and German books. No ordinary janitor, Adam Denhardt was a German teacher for 33 years until he was pensioned off in 1924. When he and his wife Agate went to the U. S., leaving their three daughters behind, the only job he could get was one as "house father...
Before going back to work, scholarly Janitor Denhardt observed: "I am unhappy unless I am busy. ... I started to study theology once, but I dropped it. I now have no faith. The existing faiths, they do not convince me, though I would like to believe. ... I have no political opinions either. I was a member of the Provincial Legislature in Germany once. Then after the War there .was . . . violence and beatings and I could not stand seeing that. I would never be interested in politics again. It is not civilized...