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BICYCLIST KILLED IN FORT PIERCE
Fort Pierce - A 58-year-old bicyclist from Fort Pierce died in an apparent hit-and-run traffic accident Sat. night, a Police Dept. spokesman said. Harold E. Kilgore, of 817 S. 7th St., was found lying beside Boston Ave. at approximately 11:30 PM. Police investigators say he was hit from behind by a car.
The Palm Beach Post - May 12, 1981 p 82
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Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999
Name: Harry Kilgore
Date of Birth: 28 Feb 1923
County: Barren
Mother's Name: Ella Morui (Martin)
Volume Number: 093
Certificate Number: 46081
Volume Year: 1923
Florida Death Index, 1877-1998
Name: Harry Edward Kilgore
Death Date: 10 May 1981
County of Death: Saint Lucie
State of Death: Florida
Age at Death: 58
Race: White
Birth Date: 28 Feb 1923
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U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Name: Harry E Kilgore
Birth Date: 28 Feb 1923
Address: 817 S 7th St, Fort Pierce, FL, 34950-9316
U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
Name: Ella J Botts (sister still living at the same residence)
Birth Date: 6 Oct 1913
Address: 817 S 7th St, Fort Pierce, FL, 34950-9316 (1995)
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Home in 1930: Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky
Millard Sharp 39 head
Ella Sharp 39 wife
Ella Kilgore (sister) 16 step dau
Edward Kilgore 7 step son
Home in 1940: Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky
Ella Kilgore 49
Edward Kilgore 17
Harry L Pugh 54 widow, lodger
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EDW. KILGORE HELD IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
Harry Edward Kilgore, 25, Glasgow youth, has confessed to the slaying of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Martin, Warren County residents, who were found dead Wednesday morning at their home on the cemetery road, one mile east of Bowling Green.
Arrested as a suspect in the double murder, Kilgore was taken into custody at the home of his mother, Mrs. Ella Martin Kilgore, on Leslie Avenue here Wednesday morning by Deputy Sheriff Charlie Ashworth and Police Sgt. Curtis Henderson of Bowling Green, and City Policeman Wade Moran.
Immediately after being returned to Bowling Green for questioning before County Attorney W. H. Natcher and Sheriff Boadley Davenport, Kilgore signed a confession that he had shot the elderly couple with a .32 automatic pistol and beat them with a sand bad and flashlight some time Wednesday morning between 2 and 3 o’clock.
Dr. Martin, 80, was shot three times in the head, and his wife, 79, was shot once in back of the head, according to Warren County Sheriff Boadley Davenport. A hole was shot in the front door at the Martin home and sad from a sand bag used in beating the Martins, was found scattered in the downstairs bedroom where the murders took place. Kilgore told officers he threw the pistol used in slaying the elderly couple over the bridge in Barren River as he returned to Glasgow Wednesday morning in his sister’s car, which he had borrowed.
Warren County Attorney W. H. Natcher in a telephone conversation with The Times reporter, said that so far all evidence furnished by the slayer in his confession had been confirmed. Natcher described the slayer as the guilty suitor of Mrs. Ruth McKinney Martin, 22, who was married to Stonewall Martin, 53, bachelor son of the slain couple, at Russellville on Wednesday, June 23. The newlyweds were on a honeymoon trip to Siloam Springs, Ark., when notified of the murder yesterday.
According to Attorney Natcher, Kilgore stated that he loved Ruth and that the Martin family had through prejudice enticed her away from him. Sheriff Davenport said he had heard previous reports that Kilgore had grown despondent since the McKinney woman had married the Martin man, and that this led to him as a suspect in the murder.
Kilgore told the Warren County officials her went to the Martin home early Wednesday morning, and was scared away from the front door by a barking dog. Then he drove his car to a nearby wheat field where he parked it and came back to the Martin home. He punched the latch to the door open and Dr. Martin was aroused and slammed the door shut.
“It was then I went haywire and don’t know just what all did take place except that I broke open the front door,” Kilgore said. Signs in the bedroom gave evidence that Dr. Martin might have given battle to the slayer-since the victim was found lying on the floor and there was a shot fired through the front door. Mrs. Martin was found slain in bed.
The bodies of the elderly couple were found Wednesday morning at 7:05 oclock [sic] by Joe Emerson, a painter, who had been working at the Martin residence since June 7. Another laborer, J. H. Hood, was present when the tragedy was discovered.
Kilgore attended the Glasgow schools and had been a student at Western State College in Bowling Green for the past two years.
The Glasgow Times July 1, 1948
Glasgow, Barren Co., KY.
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JURY TOLD ANOTHER HELPED IN SLAYING
Harry Edward Kilgore, 26-year-old Glasgowian, Tuesday testified before a Warren County grand jury that he was not alone the morning that Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Martin were slain near Bowling Green.
The former Western student, who last week plead guilty to the slaying, after the trial told a group of county officials that he and an accomplice plotted to kill the Martins and that the accomplice was with him on June 19, 1948, the day of the slaying. Tuesday’s grand jury testimony was an outgrowth of the earlier statement.
Following the grand jury session, Warren County officials spent four hours questioning George Melvin Daggit, 35, ex-head of the piano department of Western who resigned his post Saturday. Details of the questioning were not disclosed.
Also testifying before the grand jury were Mrs. Ella Kilgore, Glasgow, the youth’s mother. Mrs. Ella Martin Booker, Danville, his sister, and his uncle, Tom Martin, of Monroe county.
Following his grand jury testimony, Kilgore said he “told the grand jury the true story.” He was closeted with the jurors for an hour and ten minutes and the later returned to jail.
The Glasgow Times - Sept 29. 1949
Glasgow, Barren Co., KY.
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KILGORE PAROLE TURNED DOWN BY STATE BOARD
The State Parole Board has denied parole to Harry Edward Kilgore, 36, a former Glasgow resident who was convicted of a double slaying almost 10 years ago in Warren Circuit Court.
Kilgore was sentenced on Sept. 29, 1949 to two life terms in prison for the pistol slaying of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Martin at their home on Cemetery Road on June 30, 1948. However the two life terms mean nothing more than one life term under Kentucky law.
After serving a brief time at the State Penitentiary at Eddyville, Kilgore was transferred to La Grange Reformatory early in 1950. He is currently confined at La Grange.
After reviewing his case this month, the parole board delayed action on Kilgore’s parole recommendation for at least another year.
Under Kentucky law, the parole board first reviewed his case in July of 1957, deciding at that time to defer action on the parole recommendation for two years or until the present.
Even after a parole board recommendation, Kilgore would not be able to obtain immediate release.
The Park City Daily News - July 28, 1959
Bowling Green, Warren Co., KY.
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BOWLING GREEN KILLER, HARRY KILGORE, PAROLED
Frankfort, Ky - Harry Edward Kilgore, who was serving two life sentences for the sensational 1948 slaying of an elderly Bowling Green couple, has been paroled to Florida.
Kilgore, 42, was released from the State Reformatory near LaGrange on June 7 after serving 15 1/2 years for the murder of Dr and Mrs C B Martin. A condition of his parole is that he stay out of Warren and adjoining counties. Kilgore is living with a relative in Florida where he has a job as a television repairman.
Kilgore's parole had been deferred eight times by the state Parole Board before it was approved last March, chairman Walter Ferguson said. Kilgore had "an exceptionally good" record at the reformatory where he taught television and radio repair. Prison officials and psychiatrists recommended the parole.
Kilgore Student At Western
The murders of Dr Martin, 80, a wealthy physician, and his 79-year-old wife were part of a fantastic plot by which Kilgore was to get the Martin's money through a series of marriages and murders. Kilgore, from Glasgow, was an honor student in physics at Western State College at the time.
Prof. George M Daggit, then a piano teacher at Western, was indicted as an accessory to the murders and for extortion. He received an 11-year sentence, but the Court of Appeals reversed the conviction for lack of evidence.
The Courier-Journal - Jun 25, 1965 p10
Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY.
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George Melvin Daggit
Dr Charles Benjamin Martin
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Researched by Laura J Stewart #47412616
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BICYCLIST KILLED IN FORT PIERCE
Fort Pierce - A 58-year-old bicyclist from Fort Pierce died in an apparent hit-and-run traffic accident Sat. night, a Police Dept. spokesman said. Harold E. Kilgore, of 817 S. 7th St., was found lying beside Boston Ave. at approximately 11:30 PM. Police investigators say he was hit from behind by a car.
The Palm Beach Post - May 12, 1981 p 82
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Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999
Name: Harry Kilgore
Date of Birth: 28 Feb 1923
County: Barren
Mother's Name: Ella Morui (Martin)
Volume Number: 093
Certificate Number: 46081
Volume Year: 1923
Florida Death Index, 1877-1998
Name: Harry Edward Kilgore
Death Date: 10 May 1981
County of Death: Saint Lucie
State of Death: Florida
Age at Death: 58
Race: White
Birth Date: 28 Feb 1923
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U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Name: Harry E Kilgore
Birth Date: 28 Feb 1923
Address: 817 S 7th St, Fort Pierce, FL, 34950-9316
U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
Name: Ella J Botts (sister still living at the same residence)
Birth Date: 6 Oct 1913
Address: 817 S 7th St, Fort Pierce, FL, 34950-9316 (1995)
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Home in 1930: Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky
Millard Sharp 39 head
Ella Sharp 39 wife
Ella Kilgore (sister) 16 step dau
Edward Kilgore 7 step son
Home in 1940: Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky
Ella Kilgore 49
Edward Kilgore 17
Harry L Pugh 54 widow, lodger
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EDW. KILGORE HELD IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
Harry Edward Kilgore, 25, Glasgow youth, has confessed to the slaying of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Martin, Warren County residents, who were found dead Wednesday morning at their home on the cemetery road, one mile east of Bowling Green.
Arrested as a suspect in the double murder, Kilgore was taken into custody at the home of his mother, Mrs. Ella Martin Kilgore, on Leslie Avenue here Wednesday morning by Deputy Sheriff Charlie Ashworth and Police Sgt. Curtis Henderson of Bowling Green, and City Policeman Wade Moran.
Immediately after being returned to Bowling Green for questioning before County Attorney W. H. Natcher and Sheriff Boadley Davenport, Kilgore signed a confession that he had shot the elderly couple with a .32 automatic pistol and beat them with a sand bad and flashlight some time Wednesday morning between 2 and 3 o’clock.
Dr. Martin, 80, was shot three times in the head, and his wife, 79, was shot once in back of the head, according to Warren County Sheriff Boadley Davenport. A hole was shot in the front door at the Martin home and sad from a sand bag used in beating the Martins, was found scattered in the downstairs bedroom where the murders took place. Kilgore told officers he threw the pistol used in slaying the elderly couple over the bridge in Barren River as he returned to Glasgow Wednesday morning in his sister’s car, which he had borrowed.
Warren County Attorney W. H. Natcher in a telephone conversation with The Times reporter, said that so far all evidence furnished by the slayer in his confession had been confirmed. Natcher described the slayer as the guilty suitor of Mrs. Ruth McKinney Martin, 22, who was married to Stonewall Martin, 53, bachelor son of the slain couple, at Russellville on Wednesday, June 23. The newlyweds were on a honeymoon trip to Siloam Springs, Ark., when notified of the murder yesterday.
According to Attorney Natcher, Kilgore stated that he loved Ruth and that the Martin family had through prejudice enticed her away from him. Sheriff Davenport said he had heard previous reports that Kilgore had grown despondent since the McKinney woman had married the Martin man, and that this led to him as a suspect in the murder.
Kilgore told the Warren County officials her went to the Martin home early Wednesday morning, and was scared away from the front door by a barking dog. Then he drove his car to a nearby wheat field where he parked it and came back to the Martin home. He punched the latch to the door open and Dr. Martin was aroused and slammed the door shut.
“It was then I went haywire and don’t know just what all did take place except that I broke open the front door,” Kilgore said. Signs in the bedroom gave evidence that Dr. Martin might have given battle to the slayer-since the victim was found lying on the floor and there was a shot fired through the front door. Mrs. Martin was found slain in bed.
The bodies of the elderly couple were found Wednesday morning at 7:05 oclock [sic] by Joe Emerson, a painter, who had been working at the Martin residence since June 7. Another laborer, J. H. Hood, was present when the tragedy was discovered.
Kilgore attended the Glasgow schools and had been a student at Western State College in Bowling Green for the past two years.
The Glasgow Times July 1, 1948
Glasgow, Barren Co., KY.
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JURY TOLD ANOTHER HELPED IN SLAYING
Harry Edward Kilgore, 26-year-old Glasgowian, Tuesday testified before a Warren County grand jury that he was not alone the morning that Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Martin were slain near Bowling Green.
The former Western student, who last week plead guilty to the slaying, after the trial told a group of county officials that he and an accomplice plotted to kill the Martins and that the accomplice was with him on June 19, 1948, the day of the slaying. Tuesday’s grand jury testimony was an outgrowth of the earlier statement.
Following the grand jury session, Warren County officials spent four hours questioning George Melvin Daggit, 35, ex-head of the piano department of Western who resigned his post Saturday. Details of the questioning were not disclosed.
Also testifying before the grand jury were Mrs. Ella Kilgore, Glasgow, the youth’s mother. Mrs. Ella Martin Booker, Danville, his sister, and his uncle, Tom Martin, of Monroe county.
Following his grand jury testimony, Kilgore said he “told the grand jury the true story.” He was closeted with the jurors for an hour and ten minutes and the later returned to jail.
The Glasgow Times - Sept 29. 1949
Glasgow, Barren Co., KY.
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KILGORE PAROLE TURNED DOWN BY STATE BOARD
The State Parole Board has denied parole to Harry Edward Kilgore, 36, a former Glasgow resident who was convicted of a double slaying almost 10 years ago in Warren Circuit Court.
Kilgore was sentenced on Sept. 29, 1949 to two life terms in prison for the pistol slaying of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Martin at their home on Cemetery Road on June 30, 1948. However the two life terms mean nothing more than one life term under Kentucky law.
After serving a brief time at the State Penitentiary at Eddyville, Kilgore was transferred to La Grange Reformatory early in 1950. He is currently confined at La Grange.
After reviewing his case this month, the parole board delayed action on Kilgore’s parole recommendation for at least another year.
Under Kentucky law, the parole board first reviewed his case in July of 1957, deciding at that time to defer action on the parole recommendation for two years or until the present.
Even after a parole board recommendation, Kilgore would not be able to obtain immediate release.
The Park City Daily News - July 28, 1959
Bowling Green, Warren Co., KY.
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BOWLING GREEN KILLER, HARRY KILGORE, PAROLED
Frankfort, Ky - Harry Edward Kilgore, who was serving two life sentences for the sensational 1948 slaying of an elderly Bowling Green couple, has been paroled to Florida.
Kilgore, 42, was released from the State Reformatory near LaGrange on June 7 after serving 15 1/2 years for the murder of Dr and Mrs C B Martin. A condition of his parole is that he stay out of Warren and adjoining counties. Kilgore is living with a relative in Florida where he has a job as a television repairman.
Kilgore's parole had been deferred eight times by the state Parole Board before it was approved last March, chairman Walter Ferguson said. Kilgore had "an exceptionally good" record at the reformatory where he taught television and radio repair. Prison officials and psychiatrists recommended the parole.
Kilgore Student At Western
The murders of Dr Martin, 80, a wealthy physician, and his 79-year-old wife were part of a fantastic plot by which Kilgore was to get the Martin's money through a series of marriages and murders. Kilgore, from Glasgow, was an honor student in physics at Western State College at the time.
Prof. George M Daggit, then a piano teacher at Western, was indicted as an accessory to the murders and for extortion. He received an 11-year sentence, but the Court of Appeals reversed the conviction for lack of evidence.
The Courier-Journal - Jun 25, 1965 p10
Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY.
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George Melvin Daggit
Dr Charles Benjamin Martin
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Researched by Laura J Stewart #47412616
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BICYCLIST KILLED IN FORT PIERCE
Fort Pierce - A 58-year-old bicyclist from Fort Pierce died in an apparent hit-and-run traffic accident Sat. night, a Police Dept. spokesman said. Harold E. Kilgore, of 817 S. 7th St., was found lying beside Boston Ave. at approximately 11:30 PM. Police investigators say he was hit from behind by a car.
The Palm Beach Post - May 12, 1981 p 82
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Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999
Name: Harry Kilgore
Date of Birth: 28 Feb 1923
County: Barren
Mother's Name: Ella Morui (Martin)
Volume Number: 093
Certificate Number: 46081
Volume Year: 1923
Florida Death Index, 1877-1998
Name: Harry Edward Kilgore
Death Date: 10 May 1981
County of Death: Saint Lucie
State of Death: Florida
Age at Death: 58
Race: White
Birth Date: 28 Feb 1923
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U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Name: Harry E Kilgore
Birth Date: 28 Feb 1923
Address: 817 S 7th St, Fort Pierce, FL, 34950-9316
U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
Name: Ella J Botts (sister still living at the same residence)
Birth Date: 6 Oct 1913
Address: 817 S 7th St, Fort Pierce, FL, 34950-9316 (1995)
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Home in 1930: Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky
Millard Sharp 39 head
Ella Sharp 39 wife
Ella Kilgore (sister) 16 step dau
Edward Kilgore 7 step son
Home in 1940: Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky
Ella Kilgore 49
Edward Kilgore 17
Harry L Pugh 54 widow, lodger
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EDW. KILGORE HELD IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
Harry Edward Kilgore, 25, Glasgow youth, has confessed to the slaying of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Martin, Warren County residents, who were found dead Wednesday morning at their home on the cemetery road, one mile east of Bowling Green.
Arrested as a suspect in the double murder, Kilgore was taken into custody at the home of his mother, Mrs. Ella Martin Kilgore, on Leslie Avenue here Wednesday morning by Deputy Sheriff Charlie Ashworth and Police Sgt. Curtis Henderson of Bowling Green, and City Policeman Wade Moran.
Immediately after being returned to Bowling Green for questioning before County Attorney W. H. Natcher and Sheriff Boadley Davenport, Kilgore signed a confession that he had shot the elderly couple with a .32 automatic pistol and beat them with a sand bad and flashlight some time Wednesday morning between 2 and 3 o’clock.
Dr. Martin, 80, was shot three times in the head, and his wife, 79, was shot once in back of the head, according to Warren County Sheriff Boadley Davenport. A hole was shot in the front door at the Martin home and sad from a sand bag used in beating the Martins, was found scattered in the downstairs bedroom where the murders took place. Kilgore told officers he threw the pistol used in slaying the elderly couple over the bridge in Barren River as he returned to Glasgow Wednesday morning in his sister’s car, which he had borrowed.
Warren County Attorney W. H. Natcher in a telephone conversation with The Times reporter, said that so far all evidence furnished by the slayer in his confession had been confirmed. Natcher described the slayer as the guilty suitor of Mrs. Ruth McKinney Martin, 22, who was married to Stonewall Martin, 53, bachelor son of the slain couple, at Russellville on Wednesday, June 23. The newlyweds were on a honeymoon trip to Siloam Springs, Ark., when notified of the murder yesterday.
According to Attorney Natcher, Kilgore stated that he loved Ruth and that the Martin family had through prejudice enticed her away from him. Sheriff Davenport said he had heard previous reports that Kilgore had grown despondent since the McKinney woman had married the Martin man, and that this led to him as a suspect in the murder.
Kilgore told the Warren County officials her went to the Martin home early Wednesday morning, and was scared away from the front door by a barking dog. Then he drove his car to a nearby wheat field where he parked it and came back to the Martin home. He punched the latch to the door open and Dr. Martin was aroused and slammed the door shut.
“It was then I went haywire and don’t know just what all did take place except that I broke open the front door,” Kilgore said. Signs in the bedroom gave evidence that Dr. Martin might have given battle to the slayer-since the victim was found lying on the floor and there was a shot fired through the front door. Mrs. Martin was found slain in bed.
The bodies of the elderly couple were found Wednesday morning at 7:05 oclock [sic] by Joe Emerson, a painter, who had been working at the Martin residence since June 7. Another laborer, J. H. Hood, was present when the tragedy was discovered.
Kilgore attended the Glasgow schools and had been a student at Western State College in Bowling Green for the past two years.
The Glasgow Times July 1, 1948
Glasgow, Barren Co., KY.
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JURY TOLD ANOTHER HELPED IN SLAYING
Harry Edward Kilgore, 26-year-old Glasgowian, Tuesday testified before a Warren County grand jury that he was not alone the morning that Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Martin were slain near Bowling Green.
The former Western student, who last week plead guilty to the slaying, after the trial told a group of county officials that he and an accomplice plotted to kill the Martins and that the accomplice was with him on June 19, 1948, the day of the slaying. Tuesday’s grand jury testimony was an outgrowth of the earlier statement.
Following the grand jury session, Warren County officials spent four hours questioning George Melvin Daggit, 35, ex-head of the piano department of Western who resigned his post Saturday. Details of the questioning were not disclosed.
Also testifying before the grand jury were Mrs. Ella Kilgore, Glasgow, the youth’s mother. Mrs. Ella Martin Booker, Danville, his sister, and his uncle, Tom Martin, of Monroe county.
Following his grand jury testimony, Kilgore said he “told the grand jury the true story.” He was closeted with the jurors for an hour and ten minutes and the later returned to jail.
The Glasgow Times - Sept 29. 1949
Glasgow, Barren Co., KY.
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KILGORE PAROLE TURNED DOWN BY STATE BOARD
The State Parole Board has denied parole to Harry Edward Kilgore, 36, a former Glasgow resident who was convicted of a double slaying almost 10 years ago in Warren Circuit Court.
Kilgore was sentenced on Sept. 29, 1949 to two life terms in prison for the pistol slaying of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Martin at their home on Cemetery Road on June 30, 1948. However the two life terms mean nothing more than one life term under Kentucky law.
After serving a brief time at the State Penitentiary at Eddyville, Kilgore was transferred to La Grange Reformatory early in 1950. He is currently confined at La Grange.
After reviewing his case this month, the parole board delayed action on Kilgore’s parole recommendation for at least another year.
Under Kentucky law, the parole board first reviewed his case in July of 1957, deciding at that time to defer action on the parole recommendation for two years or until the present.
Even after a parole board recommendation, Kilgore would not be able to obtain immediate release.
The Park City Daily News - July 28, 1959
Bowling Green, Warren Co., KY.
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BOWLING GREEN KILLER, HARRY KILGORE, PAROLED
Frankfort, Ky - Harry Edward Kilgore, who was serving two life sentences for the sensational 1948 slaying of an elderly Bowling Green couple, has been paroled to Florida.
Kilgore, 42, was released from the State Reformatory near LaGrange on June 7 after serving 15 1/2 years for the murder of Dr and Mrs C B Martin. A condition of his parole is that he stay out of Warren and adjoining counties. Kilgore is living with a relative in Florida where he has a job as a television repairman.
Kilgore's parole had been deferred eight times by the state Parole Board before it was approved last March, chairman Walter Ferguson said. Kilgore had "an exceptionally good" record at the reformatory where he taught television and radio repair. Prison officials and psychiatrists recommended the parole.
Kilgore Student At Western
The murders of Dr Martin, 80, a wealthy physician, and his 79-year-old wife were part of a fantastic plot by which Kilgore was to get the Martin's money through a series of marriages and murders. Kilgore, from Glasgow, was an honor student in physics at Western State College at the time.
Prof. George M Daggit, then a piano teacher at Western, was indicted as an accessory to the murders and for extortion. He received an 11-year sentence, but the Court of Appeals reversed the conviction for lack of evidence.
The Courier-Journal - Jun 25, 1965 p10
Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY.
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George Melvin Daggit
Dr Charles Benjamin Martin
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Researched by Laura J Stewart #47412616
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BICYCLIST KILLED IN FORT PIERCE
Fort Pierce - A 58-year-old bicyclist from Fort Pierce died in an apparent hit-and-run traffic accident Sat. night, a Police Dept. spokesman said. Harold E. Kilgore, of 817 S. 7th St., was found lying beside Boston Ave. at approximately 11:30 PM. Police investigators say he was hit from behind by a car.
The Palm Beach Post - May 12, 1981 p 82
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Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999
Name: Harry Kilgore
Date of Birth: 28 Feb 1923
County: Barren
Mother's Name: Ella Morui (Martin)
Volume Number: 093
Certificate Number: 46081
Volume Year: 1923
Florida Death Index, 1877-1998
Name: Harry Edward Kilgore
Death Date: 10 May 1981
County of Death: Saint Lucie
State of Death: Florida
Age at Death: 58
Race: White
Birth Date: 28 Feb 1923
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U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2
Name: Harry E Kilgore
Birth Date: 28 Feb 1923
Address: 817 S 7th St, Fort Pierce, FL, 34950-9316
U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 1
Name: Ella J Botts (sister still living at the same residence)
Birth Date: 6 Oct 1913
Address: 817 S 7th St, Fort Pierce, FL, 34950-9316 (1995)
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Home in 1930: Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky
Millard Sharp 39 head
Ella Sharp 39 wife
Ella Kilgore (sister) 16 step dau
Edward Kilgore 7 step son
Home in 1940: Glasgow, Barren, Kentucky
Ella Kilgore 49
Edward Kilgore 17
Harry L Pugh 54 widow, lodger
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EDW. KILGORE HELD IN DOUBLE MURDER CASE
Harry Edward Kilgore, 25, Glasgow youth, has confessed to the slaying of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Martin, Warren County residents, who were found dead Wednesday morning at their home on the cemetery road, one mile east of Bowling Green.
Arrested as a suspect in the double murder, Kilgore was taken into custody at the home of his mother, Mrs. Ella Martin Kilgore, on Leslie Avenue here Wednesday morning by Deputy Sheriff Charlie Ashworth and Police Sgt. Curtis Henderson of Bowling Green, and City Policeman Wade Moran.
Immediately after being returned to Bowling Green for questioning before County Attorney W. H. Natcher and Sheriff Boadley Davenport, Kilgore signed a confession that he had shot the elderly couple with a .32 automatic pistol and beat them with a sand bad and flashlight some time Wednesday morning between 2 and 3 o’clock.
Dr. Martin, 80, was shot three times in the head, and his wife, 79, was shot once in back of the head, according to Warren County Sheriff Boadley Davenport. A hole was shot in the front door at the Martin home and sad from a sand bag used in beating the Martins, was found scattered in the downstairs bedroom where the murders took place. Kilgore told officers he threw the pistol used in slaying the elderly couple over the bridge in Barren River as he returned to Glasgow Wednesday morning in his sister’s car, which he had borrowed.
Warren County Attorney W. H. Natcher in a telephone conversation with The Times reporter, said that so far all evidence furnished by the slayer in his confession had been confirmed. Natcher described the slayer as the guilty suitor of Mrs. Ruth McKinney Martin, 22, who was married to Stonewall Martin, 53, bachelor son of the slain couple, at Russellville on Wednesday, June 23. The newlyweds were on a honeymoon trip to Siloam Springs, Ark., when notified of the murder yesterday.
According to Attorney Natcher, Kilgore stated that he loved Ruth and that the Martin family had through prejudice enticed her away from him. Sheriff Davenport said he had heard previous reports that Kilgore had grown despondent since the McKinney woman had married the Martin man, and that this led to him as a suspect in the murder.
Kilgore told the Warren County officials her went to the Martin home early Wednesday morning, and was scared away from the front door by a barking dog. Then he drove his car to a nearby wheat field where he parked it and came back to the Martin home. He punched the latch to the door open and Dr. Martin was aroused and slammed the door shut.
“It was then I went haywire and don’t know just what all did take place except that I broke open the front door,” Kilgore said. Signs in the bedroom gave evidence that Dr. Martin might have given battle to the slayer-since the victim was found lying on the floor and there was a shot fired through the front door. Mrs. Martin was found slain in bed.
The bodies of the elderly couple were found Wednesday morning at 7:05 oclock [sic] by Joe Emerson, a painter, who had been working at the Martin residence since June 7. Another laborer, J. H. Hood, was present when the tragedy was discovered.
Kilgore attended the Glasgow schools and had been a student at Western State College in Bowling Green for the past two years.
The Glasgow Times July 1, 1948
Glasgow, Barren Co., KY.
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JURY TOLD ANOTHER HELPED IN SLAYING
Harry Edward Kilgore, 26-year-old Glasgowian, Tuesday testified before a Warren County grand jury that he was not alone the morning that Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Martin were slain near Bowling Green.
The former Western student, who last week plead guilty to the slaying, after the trial told a group of county officials that he and an accomplice plotted to kill the Martins and that the accomplice was with him on June 19, 1948, the day of the slaying. Tuesday’s grand jury testimony was an outgrowth of the earlier statement.
Following the grand jury session, Warren County officials spent four hours questioning George Melvin Daggit, 35, ex-head of the piano department of Western who resigned his post Saturday. Details of the questioning were not disclosed.
Also testifying before the grand jury were Mrs. Ella Kilgore, Glasgow, the youth’s mother. Mrs. Ella Martin Booker, Danville, his sister, and his uncle, Tom Martin, of Monroe county.
Following his grand jury testimony, Kilgore said he “told the grand jury the true story.” He was closeted with the jurors for an hour and ten minutes and the later returned to jail.
The Glasgow Times - Sept 29. 1949
Glasgow, Barren Co., KY.
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KILGORE PAROLE TURNED DOWN BY STATE BOARD
The State Parole Board has denied parole to Harry Edward Kilgore, 36, a former Glasgow resident who was convicted of a double slaying almost 10 years ago in Warren Circuit Court.
Kilgore was sentenced on Sept. 29, 1949 to two life terms in prison for the pistol slaying of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. Martin at their home on Cemetery Road on June 30, 1948. However the two life terms mean nothing more than one life term under Kentucky law.
After serving a brief time at the State Penitentiary at Eddyville, Kilgore was transferred to La Grange Reformatory early in 1950. He is currently confined at La Grange.
After reviewing his case this month, the parole board delayed action on Kilgore’s parole recommendation for at least another year.
Under Kentucky law, the parole board first reviewed his case in July of 1957, deciding at that time to defer action on the parole recommendation for two years or until the present.
Even after a parole board recommendation, Kilgore would not be able to obtain immediate release.
The Park City Daily News - July 28, 1959
Bowling Green, Warren Co., KY.
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BOWLING GREEN KILLER, HARRY KILGORE, PAROLED
Frankfort, Ky - Harry Edward Kilgore, who was serving two life sentences for the sensational 1948 slaying of an elderly Bowling Green couple, has been paroled to Florida.
Kilgore, 42, was released from the State Reformatory near LaGrange on June 7 after serving 15 1/2 years for the murder of Dr and Mrs C B Martin. A condition of his parole is that he stay out of Warren and adjoining counties. Kilgore is living with a relative in Florida where he has a job as a television repairman.
Kilgore's parole had been deferred eight times by the state Parole Board before it was approved last March, chairman Walter Ferguson said. Kilgore had "an exceptionally good" record at the reformatory where he taught television and radio repair. Prison officials and psychiatrists recommended the parole.
Kilgore Student At Western
The murders of Dr Martin, 80, a wealthy physician, and his 79-year-old wife were part of a fantastic plot by which Kilgore was to get the Martin's money through a series of marriages and murders. Kilgore, from Glasgow, was an honor student in physics at Western State College at the time.
Prof. George M Daggit, then a piano teacher at Western, was indicted as an accessory to the murders and for extortion. He received an 11-year sentence, but the Court of Appeals reversed the conviction for lack of evidence.
The Courier-Journal - Jun 25, 1965 p10
Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY.
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George Melvin Daggit
Dr Charles Benjamin Martin
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