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Picture of Butch Bradley from the Nashville Banner; Nashville, TN; 21 May 1897; Pg 1

Bradley, George aka Butch Bradley

Posted on April 8, 2022April 8, 2022 by ML Williams

It Rests with His Peers
Butch Bradley’s Fate in the Hands of the Jury

IT RESTS WITH HIS PEERS | The fate of Butch Bradley is now in the hands of twelve of his peers, and he is anxiously awaiting the verdict. The case was given to the jury at 4:20 o’clock yesterday afternoon, but no verdict was reached last night.

On court convening yesterday morning the first witness called was A. D. Claiborne, town marshal of Mason, Tenn., who testified to arresting Bradley.

Detectives Hedrick and Wolf testified that Bradley told them he got the pistol with which the murder was done from a table near Rogers’ bed. The defendant denied this when on the witness stand.

This ended the evidences, and Assistant Attorney-General Eldridge made the first presentation of the case for the State. He summed up the case admirably and made a good speech. He was followed by P. M. Winters in one of his usual discursive efforts. He was followed by John T. Moss. After him Attorney-General Peters closed for the State.

Judge Scruggs then delivered his charge to the jury. It was a fair charge, acceptable to counsel on both sides, and at the request of Mr. Moss, a special charge was given on the drunken condition of Bradley at the time of the killing. This fact will possibly save his neck, as there is no doubt but that he was very drunk at the time, as were the other three also. This fact will, it is thought, weaken the theory of premeditation and deliberation assential [sic] to a conviction of murder in the first degree.

Judge Scruggs, after the jury retired to consider its verdict, remained at the courthouse until 5:30 o’clock, but as the jury had not agreed at that time it was locked up for the night, and no verdict will be rendered until this morning, if then. How the jury stood could not be ascertained. Usually a well founded rumor can be obtained, but the jury is in charge of Deputy Sheriff Joe Perkins, who, very properly, too, does not disclose any information of that kind he may be in possession of.

It is almost safe to say that the defendant will not hang, and it is almost as safe to assume that he will be convicted and sentenced to a term in the penitentiary.

It transpires now that Bradley was a little too smart when he shaved his mustache and sideburns off for the purpose of disguising himself. He did that at Arlington the day he got there. Had he not done so he might have carried out his intention of boarding the train at Mason, but his clean shave aroused suspicion. The description of Bradley was telegraphed from Memphis in reply to a telegram to the chief of police, and it was seen that before shaving the stranger fitted it exactly. Word was sent to the marshal at Mason, who intercepted the man before he reached the depot in the buggy he had hired at Arlington.

[ It Rests with His Peers | The Memphis Commercial; Memphis, TN; 10 Jun 1893; Pg 5]


Memphis Detectives

The Commercial Appeal; Memphis, TN; 2 Jan 1897; Pg 3
The Commercial Appeal; Memphis, TN; 2 Jan 1897; Pg 3

Aids to Work of Detectives

THE ROGUES’ GALLERY AND THE OFFICERS’ SCRAPBOOKS
Temporary Increase of the Memphis Force in Order to Cope With the Influx of Criminals – Knowledge of Their Ways Is Valuable to Police

The Memphis detective force has had its hands pretty full for the last several weeks. The biting cold of the North drives an army of the criminal class southward every winter. The depredations of this army are many, and form the epidemic of burglaries, hold-ups and kindred crimes the progress of the army southward can be marked.

For instance, the first great outbreak this fall began in Chicago, and it grew to the proportions of a “reign of terror.” Jewelry stores were robbed in broad daylight, and any person who left his house after night was never surprised to meet the “long and short men.” The wave then spread to St. Louis, and a few weeks ago it reached Memphis in a small way. The familiar faces of old and noted criminals and the familiar earmarks of experienced cracksmen, burglars and thieves, and the appearance of strange “mugs” around criminal hang-outs, informed the police that the army that comes every fall was here.

The migratory criminal is too smooth for the ordinary blue coat, who has a whole beat to look after, and a beat in Memphis means an entire ward, or one-tenth, roughly speaking, of the city. Of course, sometimes the patrolman plays in luck and bags a “catch,” but that is an exception. It is the department detectives and the superior officers who look after these “fancy” cases.

In order to be equal to the influx of criminals during the holidays the Memphis detective force was enlarged about December 1 by the addition of three special men, swelling the force to seven, which was placed under the direct charge of Capt. O’Haver. Ordinarily the detective force only consists of four men, and works directly under Chief Moseley. In most cities, especially the large ones, there is a chief of detectives, who is in control of the affairs of the department. Memphis has not gone so far yet, but it is possible that Chief Moseley will make such a recommendation in his annual report, which will be submitted in January.

Since the enlargement of the force to clean out the city, there has been a pretty general rounding up of petty criminals and some big ones, too. The professional cracksmen that have been operating around town without playing any particular favorites have not been caught. The officers claim that they have left town, and that they have come to grief in East St. Louis. They have done no work in Memphis this week.

The work that a department detective accomplishes appears in the daily papers, but the manner in which he accomplishes it seldom ever gets into print.

His stock in trade is experience as an officer, knowledge of criminals, their hang-outs and places where stolen property can be disposed of and an ordinary amount of alertness. That is all. The downfall of the ordinary thief is his associations and the trouble experienced in disposing of ill-gotten property. It isn’t so much trouble to steal.

To assist the detective in his work the city of Memphis has one of the finest rogues’ galleries in the country. It contains 349 pictures of noted crooks, ranging from murderers to pickpockets. This necessary requisite in criminal catching is kept to the standard by a system of exchange between cities, and the photographing of noted and desperate crooks when caught.

The gallery is arranged similarly to an album, except that the outside is a large wooden case and the leaves are of wood, and hold about 80 pictures to the side. The gallery is not near full. Among some of the most noted criminals whose photographs it holds are:

Dr. Lea, a noted “check’ man, sent to Nashville, pardoned and now doing time in another State.

Butch McCarthy, a pickpocket who had to be held by force while his picture was taken. The hand that enforced his attention can be seen entangled in his hair. he wouldn’t “look pleasant, please,” and he has a terrible look on his face.

Butch Bradley killed John Rodgers, a partner in crime on Union street several years ago, and is now doing a life sentence at Nashville. He and his three companions lent their photos to the collection. George Parkinson, one of the three attempted to rob a house and kill its owner, and got five years in the penitentiary, afterward excaping.

Will Conner, a negro, is doing forty years for burglary.

Charley Effs killed Patrolman Parkinson a few years ago, and is now serving a life sentence.

Red Reilly, a notorious garroter from New Orleans; W. A. Ridgeley, who got three years recently for robbing a countryman by a confidence game; Kelly, “the Artful Dodger,” arrested while trying to rob a hotel in Memphis in 1895, released and afterward “put away” at New Orleans for a job Mardi Gras Day; John McGowan and Mikey Gleason, pickpockets; Louis Speilberger, a “mollbuzzer,” or a picker of women’s pockets; Fritz Dean, one of the most notorious “diamond getters” in the country, who escaped the clutches of the law in Memphis and was “put away” in the North; Dock Butler, a safe blower; Jake Washington, a pocket-book snatcher, who was given forty years in the penitentiary; Pat Crowe, a desperate train robber now doing time at St. Joseph, Mo., and others are in the gallery.

There are photographs among this collection that bring back to mind many famous cases. For instance, it contains pictures of Talton Hall, the man who was said to have caused 100 human beings to be removed from this earth, including himself, who was hung for his crimes in Virginia; Eddie Gibbins, the diamond thief, whose excape from the Shelby county jail caused Sheriff McCarver to be indicted early in his administration; John McKeever, who was hung for killing Trainor; Kick Dare Devil the nickel novel name for Richard Lawrence, who was surprised in a room on Shelby street while trying to rob a gentleman, and in attempting to escape fired a shot at him and was given twenty-eight years in the penitentiary; Charles Johnston, a confederate in the job, who was given fifteen years; Roxie Conner, a noted hotel thief, who in trying to rob Gaston’s was surprised by the porter, whose life he tried to put out with a bullet; John Flavin, “The Rat,” who was arrested here, but was turned over to the authorities in Jackson, Miss., and many others.

“The Rat” escaped the law in Jackson and as afterward caged at Toledo, O.

The detectives keep scrap books of newspaper articles about criminals, thus making a fairly good record of crooks of note. A high class professional crook is often known by his work. There is as much originality in it as in a legitimate vocation.

[The Commercial Appeal; Memphis, TN; 2 Jan 1897; Pg 3]


Butch Bradley Newspaper Clippings

The Commercial Appeal; Memphis, TN; 3 Feb 1897; Pg 3
The Commercial Appeal; Memphis, TN; 3 Feb 1897; Pg 3
Nashville Banner; Nashville, TN; 3 Feb 1897; Pg 7
Nashville Banner; Nashville, TN; 3 Feb 1897; Pg 7
Nashville Banner; Nashville, TN; 2 Feb 1897, Pg 1
Nashville Banner; Nashville, TN; 2 Feb 1897, Pg 1
Nashville Banner; Nashville, TN; 13 Mar 1897; Pg 3
Nashville Banner; Nashville, TN; 13 Mar 1897; Pg 3
Nashville Banner; Nashville, TN; 17 Mar 1897; Pg 6
Nashville Banner; Nashville, TN; 17 Mar 1897; Pg 6
The Tennessean; Nashville, TN; 17 Mar 1897; Pg 2
Butch Bradley , The Tennessean; Nashville, TN; 17 Mar 1897; Pg 2
The Tennessean; Nashville, TN; 20 May 1897; Pg 3
The Tennessean; Nashville, TN; 20 May 1897; Pg 3
The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN; 21 May 1897, Pg 2
The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN; 21 May 1897, Pg 2
Marvelous Escape, Chattanooga Daily Times; Chattanooga, Tenn., 24 May 1897, Pg 8
Marvelous Escape, Chattanooga Daily Times; Chattanooga, Tenn., 24 May 1897, Pg 8
The Commercial Appeal; Memphis, TN; 27 May 1897; Pg 5
The Commercial Appeal; Memphis, TN; 27 May 1897; Pg 5
The Morristown Gazette, Morristown, Tenn., 2 Jun 1897, Pg 1 - Part 1
The Morristown Gazette, Morristown, Tenn., 2 Jun 1897, Pg 1 – Part 1
The Morristown Gazette, Morristown, Tenn., 2 Jun 1897, Pg 1 - Part 2
The Morristown Gazette, Morristown, Tenn., 2 Jun 1897, Pg 1 – Part 2
The Leaf-Chronical; Clarksville, TN; 18 Sep 1897; Pg 7
The Leaf-Chronical; Clarksville, TN; 18 Sep 1897; Pg 7
The Tennessean; Nashville, TN; 15 Nov 1897; Pg 2
Butch Bradley ,The Tennessean; Nashville, TN; 15 Nov 1897; Pg 2
Nashville Banner; Nashville, TN; 26 Nov 1897; Pg 1
Butch Bradley ,Nashville Banner; Nashville, TN; 26 Nov 1897; Pg 1
The Tennessean; Nashville, TN, 27 Nov 1897, Pg 5
The Tennessean; Nashville, TN, 27 Nov 1897, Pg 5
The Tennessean; Nashville, TN; 11 Dec 1897; Pg 5
Butch Bradley , The Tennessean; Nashville, TN; 11 Dec 1897; Pg 5
Butch Bradley, The Morning News, Savannah, GA, 13 Mar 1897, Pg 1
Butch Bradley, The Morning News, Savannah, GA, 13 Mar 1897, Pg 1
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Shelley, Barbara June Abbott

BARBARA JUNE ABBOTT SHELLEY | 52, of Drummonds, Tenn., clerk for Abbott Jewelry, died Thursday at Baptist Memorial Hospital – Tipton in Covington, Tenn. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Munford (Tenn.) Funeral Home with burial in Poplar Grove Cemetery in Drummonds.  She leaves a daughter, Kimberly Ann Douglas, and a son, James D. Shelley, both of Atlanta; her parents, John and Reamonia Millican Abbot of Drummonds; a brother, Paul Abbott of Memphis, and five grandchildren.

[Barbara June Abbott Shelley; The Commercial Appeal; Memphis, Tenn; 14 Dec 2003; Pg 29]

Janie Reamonia Rann

JANIE REAMONIA RANN, 17, of Drummonds, Tenn., clerk for Abbott Diamond Enterprises, died Thursday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Munford (Tenn.) Funeral Home with Burial in Poplar Grove Cemetery in Drummonds. She was a member of Fellowship Baptist Church. She leaves her great-grandparents who raised her, Reamonia and John Abbott of Drummonds; a half-brother, John Abbot Peak of Texas, and her grandmother, Barbara Shelley of Drummonds.

[Janie Reamonia Rann; The Commercial Appeal; Memphis, Tenn; 20 Sep 2003; Pg 15]

John A Murrell Death

Lillian Oreed Smith

Lillian was born August 22, 1903, in Tipton County, Tennessee and died June 22, 1992, in Covington, Tennessee.  She married William Austin Rhodes, May 25, 1924.  William was born July 18, 1894, and died September 17, 1980.  Lillian taught school in the schoolhouse at Bethel as a very young woman.  Then she went to Memphis where she met and married Austin.  They operated drug stores, sometimes one and sometimes two, in north Memphis most of their adult lives.  One of the stores was on Leath Street very near Humes High School and the other was on Manassas Street.  Rather late in life, they bought the old Smith family house and four acres from Lillian’s mother, Della, and moved back to Tipton County.  They put in a hen house for laying hens and sold eggs until retirement.  Austin and Lillian never had any children.  They both are buried in the “New Part” of Bethel Cemetery.

[ from An Illustrated History of the People and Towns of Northeast Shelby County and South Central Tipton County, page 178]

Lillian Oreed Smith Rhodes Obituary

ATOKA – Lillian Smith Rhodes, 88, retired merchant, died Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton after a long illness.  Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Munford Funeral Home with burial in Bethel Cemetery.  She was a member of Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Church and Home Demonstration Club.  Mrs. Rhodes, the widow of Austin Rhodes, leaves a sister, Carmen Smith of Memphis, and two brothers, A. T. Smith of Atoka and Richard Smith of Gautier, Miss.

[Rhodes, Lillian Smith; The Commercial Appeal; Memphis, Tenn; 24 Jun 1992; Pg 11]

Delayed birth certificate Lillian Oreed Smith
Delayed birth certificate Lillian Oreed Smith
Lillian Oreed Smith and W A Rhodes Marriage License
Lillian Oreed Smith and W A Rhodes Marriage License
Lillian Oreed Smith Rhodes
Lillian Oreed Smith Rhodes
Richard Arnold Smith

Richard was born on June 29, 1912, and died in Pascagoula, Mississippi on June 3, 1994.  He married Zelma Wright on October 19, 1940.  Richard attended college at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.  I do not know if he got a degree or not.  After college, he went to work for Continental Gin Company as a sales engineer in Birmingham.  He and Zelma lived there for a long time.  He finally did transfer to Memphis and lived there for several years.  During his years with Continental Gin Company, he traveled a lot, even to India for several months to install a cotton gin there.  After a long career with Continental, they bought a small tourist court in Pascagoula and moved down there to operate it.  This facility consisted of several individual cottages scattered through a pine grove.  They did most of the work themselves, just hiring people to supplement in areas that they could not see after twenty-four hours per day.  Most of their clientele were extended stay types who worked on the shrimp boats that fished out of the Pascagoula harbor and construction workers who were there for several months at a time.  Of course, they did do some overnight business, too.  Later in life, when the work became too difficult, they sold the tourist court and retired to Dolphin Island where they lived until Richard died.  It is assumed that both Richard and Zelma are buried in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

[An Illustrated History of the People and Towns of Northeast Shelby County and South Central Tipton County]

Jackson County Memorial Park

Iva Electa Smith

Iva Electa was born April 20, 1901, and died December 24, 1991, in Savannah, Hardin County, Tennessee.  She married Lenvil Gordon Beaver on March 30, 1925.  He died February 21, 1949.  They lived in the community that was named after his family, Beaver, or sometimes referred to as Beaver Town.  There was a store and cotton gin, both of which he owned.  They lived in a house that sat across the road from the store.  They had five children: Lenvil Oneda, Iva Shirley, Steve, Carmen Theo, and Lemuel Gordon Beaver.  Gordon and Iva Electa are buried in Ravencroft Cemetery in Tipton County, Tennessee.

[An Illustrated History of the People and Towns of Northeast Shelby County and South Central Tipton County, page 178]

After the death of Gordon in 1949, Iva Electa married Jesse Ray Blakey on 21 Aug 1970.  Both the bride and the groom were 69 years of age.

Iva Electa passed away on 24 Dec 1991.  Her obit is below:

BRIGHTON – Electa Smith Beaver Blakey, 90, former teacher, died Tuesday at Hardin County General Hospital in Savannah.  Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Munford Funeral Home with burial in Ravenscroft Cemetery.  She was a member of Beaver Baptist Church, where she taught Sunday School and the Women’s Bible Class.  Mrs. Blakey, the widow of Gordon Beaver and J. R. Blakey, leaves three daughters, Lenvil Leadbetter of Savannah, Shirley Dyer of Clinton, Ill., and Carmen Harshfield of Somerville; a son, Gordon ‘Lem’ Beaver Jr. of Brighton; two sisters, Carmen Smith of Memphis and Lillian Rhodes of Savannah; two brothers, A. T. Smith of Atoka and Richard Smith of Gauthier, Miss., 15 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Electa Smith Beaver Blakey; The Commercial Appeal; Memphis, TN; 26 Dec 1991; Pg 29
Electa Smith Beaver Blakey; The Commercial Appeal; Memphis, TN; 26 Dec 1991; Pg 29

 

Gordon and Electa Beaver's Headstone in Ravenscroft Cemetery
Gordon and Electa Beaver’s Headstone in Ravenscroft Cemetery
Delayed Birth Record Iva Electa Smith
Delayed Birth Record Iva Electa Smith
Electa Smith marriage to Lenvil Gordon Beaver
Electa Smith marriage to Lenvil Gordon Beaver
Electa Smith Beaver Marriage to Jesse Ray Blakey
Electa Smith Beaver Marriage to Jesse Ray Blakey
Carmen Theo Smith

Carmen was born on 24 Oct 1898 in Tipton County, Tennessee.  After graduating high school, Carmen moved to Memphis where she was a bookkeeper and secretary for William G. Smith.  William owned a refrigerator business.  They soon fell in love and where married on 24 Jun 1927.  William had three children from a previous marriage, and he and Carmen did not have any children.  They lived on E. Cherry Circle in Memphis.  According to Wayne Smith, their house was very nice and sat on about two acres of land.  Carmen died on 6 Feb 2000 in Shelby County, Tennessee.  Both William and Carmen are buried in Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee.

Obituary for Carmen Theo Smith

Carmen T. Smith, 101, of Bartlett, retired bookkeeper for Smith’s Refrigeration Co., died of heart failure Sunday at Ave Maria Nursing Home.  Services will be at 1 p.m. today at Memorial Park Funeral Home with burial in Memorial Park.  She was a choir member at Broadmoor Baptist Church, taught Sunday school, and was a charter member at Sunset Baptist Church.  Mrs. Smith, the widow of William G. Smith, leaves a brother, A. T. Smith of Atoka, Tenn. The family requests that any memorials be sent to Bethel Cumberland Presbyterian Churchin Atoka.

Carmen T Smith; The Commercial Appeal; Memphis, Tenn; 8 Feb 2000; Pg 14
Carmen T Smith; The Commercial Appeal; Memphis, Tenn; 8 Feb 2000; Pg 14

 

Delayed Birth Certificate
Delayed Birth Certificate
1910 US Census
1910 US Census
1920 US Census
1920 US Census
1940 US Census
1940 US Census
1950 US Census
1950 US Census
Allie Perry Smith

Allie was born about 1865 and died on 10 Aug 1911.  Allie worked as a clerk in  a store in Randolph, Tennessee.  He never married.

There is an old rumor that Allie was shot and killed.  The suspect, a jealous husband, but no one was ever charged with the crime.  It seems, although an interesting story, this cannot be true as his death certificate states he died of Typhoid Fever.

Fannie Smith

Fannie was born in 1867.  She married John W Reeves (1862-1945) on 7 Feb 1889 in Tipton County, Tenn.  The couple had two children:  Baudine and Finis Henry Uric.  The Reeves family was instrumental in the growth of business and church affairs in Atoka.  John was a merchant for many years and he was very active in the civic projects of the town.  They were members of the Methodist Church, where Fannie taught Sunday school.  Their son, Finis, born 6 Aug 1895, was confined to a wheelchair because of a spinal injury he received as a child.  He died on 28 Jan 1924, at the at of 29. Fannie, John and Finis are buried in Bethel Cemetery.  Baudine, who was born 19 Nov 1893, married James C Smith (1891-1981) on 3 Sep 1916 in Tipton County, Tenn.  Baudine died in Dec of 1981 and is buried in Bethel Cemetery.

 

William Richard Smith

William was born February 16, 1863, and died 22 Oct 1900.  He married Lula Victoria Aycock.  The couple farmed between Tipton and Bethel on land they had purchased.  William and Lula had two daughters, Dorcas Smith and Gladys Smith, and one son, William R Smith who was born 16 Feb 1901, and died 25 Feb 1902.  William and Lula are buried in Bethel Cemetery in unmarked graves.  Their son, William, is buried in part “C” of the cemetery.  They are probably buried in that vicinity.

After William’s death, Lula married Walter Lyles. Walter had a child from a previous marriage named Helen.  Walter and Lula did not have children.

Edward Scott Smith

Edward was born 1860 and died in 1932.  He married Laura McCormick who was born 1859 and died in 1945.  They lived in Shelby County near the Tipton County line just south of Bethel Road.  They farmed, but the land was very poor and they did not do very well.  After their children were grown, Ed and Laura moved into a house located on Tipton Road between Tipton and Munford.  They are buried in the “C” section of Bethel Cemetery.  The children of Edward and Laura McCormick were daughter Myrtle and twins Roger B. and Rodney.

John Alexander Smith

John Alexander married Jarusha Dorcas Walker Oct. 28, 1959 in Tipton County, Tennessee.  She was the daughter of John and Frances Walker.  Jarusha was born July 20, 1842, and died April 24, 1917.  John and Jarusha are buried in the “B” section of Bethel Cemetery.

Arthur Theophilus Smith said that he always heard that John and Jarusha did not own the house and property where they were living when John died.  This property was located in Shelby County between Tracy Road and Mudville Road.  Today the road is known as Mulberry Road.  Somehow, Jarusha managed to raise seven children and purchase a portion of the property, at least the house and maybe some land.  The children of John A. and Jarusha Walker Smith were:  Edward Scott, William Richard, Allie, Fannie, Auther Theophilus, Wyatt Andrew and Johnny LeAndrew.