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After the corpse of his 40-year-old fiancee, Mrs. Verna Carr Taylor, "most beautiful woman in two counties," had been found with a bullet through the heart and his .45 calibre revolver lying nearby (TIME, Nov. 23), 60-year-old Henry H. Denhardt, onetime Lieutenant Governor and Adjutant General of Kentucky, declared he had not fired a gun for six months. He suggested suicide. Paraffin tests for traces of nitrates, as from gunpowder, were made of both their hands. Last week Coroner D. L. Ricketts of La Grange announced that the tests indicated Mrs. Taylor had not lately fired...
...Damn what the coroner says!" barked General Denhardt in the Louisville hotel room where, freed on $25,000 bail after arrest for Mrs. Taylor's murder, he had secluded himself under a nurse's care...
...prosecution has said from the beginning," declared a Denhardt lawyer, "that General Denhardt shot Mrs. Taylor when she told him she could not go through with their marriage as planned. The truth of the matter is that Mrs. Taylor was begging the General to marry her. He will tell the truth about this when the day of his trial comes...
...Castle's packed courtroom was surrounded by State police and deputy sheriffs when General Denhardt, bluff, 6 ft. 2 in., 220-lb. veteran of three wars, appeared for an examining trial. George Baker, the farmer who had pushed the General's stalled car into his driveway and later heard two shots, took the stand. The first shot, he said, had sounded "awful loud, awful near." He had gone out in the yard, had glimpsed the General standing by his car, then heard a second shot, "like a popgun or a .22 rifle." General Denhardt had explained that...
...prosecutor pounced. "What did Denhardt know?" roared he. "Why did he speak of her in the past tense if all he knew was that she had gone up the road to find a lost glove...