February 23rd, 2012
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2012
Two Press Photographs, by International Newsreel Photo, April 30, 1926, 10” x 8.” each with credits and descriptions on the verso, Madisonville, Kentucky. The first “Troops and Machine Guns Guard Negroes on Trial,” shows the military-style formation around the Black men. ... plus, The second shows Dunyan Fleming and Nathan Bard leaving the courthouse after their indictment. On the evening of April 7, 1926, Bunyan Fleming and Nathan Bard brutally raped Nell C. Breithaupt, in Hopkins County. They were tried in two separate trials and sentenced to die. Fleming was convicted on April 27, 1927, and Bard was convicted on April 28, 1927. On November 25, 1927, the two were publicly hanged in Madisonville, in the order in which the jury had convicted them, Fleming first, then Bard.
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