Subject: [KYF] NEWS: Teacher Attacked, 1921, Pike Co.
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Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson
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Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Jan. 20, 1921

Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Jan. 20, 1921
Teacher Is Attacked By Pupil And Mother
   Pikeville, Ky., Jan. 20 - After Millard Kenney, 16 years old, had been
whipped by his teacher, Miss Larue Cisney, in public school yesterday, he
seized a club and struck her on the head, inflicting a slight wound,
according to her testimony in police court, and when she wrested the club
from him he ran home.  After a few minutes his mother entered the school,
Miss Cisney said, and rushed at the teacher and had seized her when the
police arrived.  The mother was fined $20.

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