Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1887 — The First Since the War. [ARTICLE]

The First Since the War.

James S. Ayer, was hanged at Islington," Ky., Friday, for the murder of James Faulkner in 1886. This was the first execution of a white man in central Kentucky since the war.