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...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...
...General had a ready explanation. He and Mrs. Taylor had planned to marry shortly, he said, but her two young daughters objected. Because of that, he believed, she had killed herself. Early last week a coroner and a police sergeant went to General Denhardt's farm to make a paraffin test of his hands* which would determine whether he had lately fired...
Twelve hundred Kentuckians packed the New Castle courtroom for the inquest. First witness called was General Denhardt. Marching to the chair, he announced in a loud, clear voice that he declined to testify "on advice of counsel over my protest." Up from the buzzing crowd stepped a sheriff, clapped a hand on the bald and portly officer's shoulder, said: "General Denhardt, I have a warrant for your arrest...
...warrant, sworn out by Mrs. Taylor's brother, charged the General with her murder. The inquest was promptly adjourned. General Denhardt was led off to the office of the County Judge, where bail of $25,000 was furnished by his old friend Dr. Arthur T. McCormack, president-elect of the American Public Health Association. A hearing was set for this week. Meantime Mrs. Taylor's body was exhumed. Examination revealed that she had been shot from the front, the bullet having struck her breast, pierced the heart, come out the back. At once officials attached great importance...
Said General Denhardt: "If they had let me testify I'd have told them quick who killed...