TALT HALL ELOPES WITH DAUGHTER OF MURDER VICTIM

FORT WAYNE SENTINEL
FORT WAYNE, INDIANA
9 APR 1890

CATTLETTSBURG, KY., April 9.----Floyd County comes to the front with another murder.

Saturday last, TALT HALL, aged 21, eloped with the thirteen - year- old daughter of his victim. The couple were followed by the father, CANNES TURNER, a constable at Goodloe.

They were overtaken, but HALL refused to deliver up the girl. Fire commenced immediately and TURNER was killed.

HALL escaped and is still at large.

This article also appears in the newspaper, "The Mitchell Daily Republican", Mitchell, South Dakota, on 10 April 1890.

Transcribed by Ona Hall Scalf

Note: Could someone tell me who this Talt Hall might be who is mentioned in the
above newspaper article ? Clinton Hall and Nancy Hall from Floyd Co. Ky
had a son named Talton born 1869.