From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 10:12 AM To: KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KYF] NEWS: Joe McCreary Held for Murder, 1921, Harlan Co. Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Sept. 5, 1921 Laborer Held For Murder Of Young Girl Bloodhounds Sent To Lynch In Effort To Trace Assailant Of Mary Hornsby By Associated Press Harlan, Sept 5, -- Joe McCreary, an unemployed laborer, who is being held as a suspect in the assault and murder of Mary Hornsby, ten year old daughter of H.A. Hornsby, a carpenter at Lynch, was brought here from Lynch today for a further quizzing. Meanwhile the grand jury was empanelled here to investigate the crime. The child was taken from bed Sunday morning and carried to a spot near the baseball field and apparently choked to death. The bloodhound brought to Lynch Sunday failed to develop a clue. The animal came from LaFollette, Tenn., by airplane and from here was rushed to the murder scene by special train. -------------------------- A bloodhound was sent from Middlesboro Sunday morning to Lynch, Ky., to work with another bloodhound being sent from LaFollette, in tracing down the murderer of little Mary Hornsby, ten year old daughter of H.A. Hornsby, carpenter at Lynch. ______________________________