John B. Adams was a Moonshiner by occupation. He was murdered by William Sizemore and Andy Hall by throwing him out of a second story courthouse window. The family does not know where he is buried. Any information would be most helpful be it an obituary or a location to his grave.
The following information is from Linville Hagins' FAG memorial 104151111 -
Dick Vance was at Federal Court in Catlettsburg, in Boyd County, Kentucky, over a matter of moonshining. He was staying at a hotel when he claimed he saw one of Halls men quietly enter the sleeping rooms, strike a match and examine the faces of the sleeping men. When he passed the bed where Vance was sleeping, he went back out. Vance, expecting trouble, had moved to another bed in different part of the building when three men, Talt Hall, Talt's brother Andy Hall and Uriah Bates returned. They picked up the man they thought was Vance and tossed him out a third story window to hit the brick pavement below, killing him instantly. The man tossed out the window proved to be John Adams of Letcher County. Adams had been arrested on a charge of violating a Federal law and was on his way to Louisville in handcuffs and leg shackles. Talton Hall was guarding the prisoner when the incident happened. The information Hall gave was that Adams had jumped from the window in an attempted escape.
The following information is from Linville Hagins' FAG memorial 104151111 -
Dick Vance was at Federal Court in Catlettsburg, in Boyd County, Kentucky, over a matter of moonshining. He was staying at a hotel when he claimed he saw one of Halls men quietly enter the sleeping rooms, strike a match and examine the faces of the sleeping men. When he passed the bed where Vance was sleeping, he went back out. Vance, expecting trouble, had moved to another bed in different part of the building when three men, Talt Hall, Talt's brother Andy Hall and Uriah Bates returned. They picked up the man they thought was Vance and tossed him out a third story window to hit the brick pavement below, killing him instantly. The man tossed out the window proved to be John Adams of Letcher County. Adams had been arrested on a charge of violating a Federal law and was on his way to Louisville in handcuffs and leg shackles. Talton Hall was guarding the prisoner when the incident happened. The information Hall gave was that Adams had jumped from the window in an attempted escape.
John B. Adams was a Moonshiner by occupation. He was murdered by William Sizemore and Andy Hall by throwing him out of a second story courthouse window. The family does not know where he is buried. Any information would be most helpful be it an obituary or a location to his grave.
The following information is from Linville Hagins' FAG memorial 104151111 -
Dick Vance was at Federal Court in Catlettsburg, in Boyd County, Kentucky, over a matter of moonshining. He was staying at a hotel when he claimed he saw one of Halls men quietly enter the sleeping rooms, strike a match and examine the faces of the sleeping men. When he passed the bed where Vance was sleeping, he went back out. Vance, expecting trouble, had moved to another bed in different part of the building when three men, Talt Hall, Talt's brother Andy Hall and Uriah Bates returned. They picked up the man they thought was Vance and tossed him out a third story window to hit the brick pavement below, killing him instantly. The man tossed out the window proved to be John Adams of Letcher County. Adams had been arrested on a charge of violating a Federal law and was on his way to Louisville in handcuffs and leg shackles. Talton Hall was guarding the prisoner when the incident happened. The information Hall gave was that Adams had jumped from the window in an attempted escape.
The following information is from Linville Hagins' FAG memorial 104151111 -
Dick Vance was at Federal Court in Catlettsburg, in Boyd County, Kentucky, over a matter of moonshining. He was staying at a hotel when he claimed he saw one of Halls men quietly enter the sleeping rooms, strike a match and examine the faces of the sleeping men. When he passed the bed where Vance was sleeping, he went back out. Vance, expecting trouble, had moved to another bed in different part of the building when three men, Talt Hall, Talt's brother Andy Hall and Uriah Bates returned. They picked up the man they thought was Vance and tossed him out a third story window to hit the brick pavement below, killing him instantly. The man tossed out the window proved to be John Adams of Letcher County. Adams had been arrested on a charge of violating a Federal law and was on his way to Louisville in handcuffs and leg shackles. Talton Hall was guarding the prisoner when the incident happened. The information Hall gave was that Adams had jumped from the window in an attempted escape.
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