From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 11:06 AM To: KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KYF] NEWS: Second Suspect Held in Harlan Murder, 1921, Harlan Co. Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Sept. 6, 1921 Second Suspect Held In Harlan Murder Case Stranger Who Had Been In Lynch Few Days Before Arrest At Appalachia By Associated Press Harlan, Ky., Sept 6. -- Sheriff Howard was notified by long distance telephone call that a second suspect in the murder of Mary Hornsby, ten years old, was taken into custody last night at Appalachia, Va., and is being brought to Harlan. The suspect is a stranger who had been in Lynch a few days before the child was murdered. Joe McCreary, the unemployed laborer, who was said to have been seen caressing the child Saturday, is in jail here in connection with the case. Bloodhounds Are On Trail Bloodhounds of V.G. Mulliken, Lexington, were put on the trail today at the point where the little victim's body was found at 7 o'clock Sunday morning near the Renham baseball field, 250 yards from the dwelling from which the child was carried away. They went a mile to the railroad tracks. The bloodhound, brought in an airplane part of the way from LaFollette, Tenn., to the scene yesterday, did not develop a clew for the officers to work upon. The dog was brought from LaFollette to Middlesboro in an airplane and rushed to Lynch on a special train. Crowds had been kept away from the body until its arrival. Visited Hornsby Home No official charge had been registered against McCreary. He admitted having visited the Hornsby home Saturday and said that Mary ironed a handkerchief for him. He had formerly been employed, but had not worked since his recent return to Lynch from North Carolina. He is 35 years old. ______________________________