From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 9:17 AM To: KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [KYF] NEWS: Allie Nolan Vance on Trial, 1921, Nelson Co. Submitted by Mary Lou Hudson Middlesboro Daily News, Middlesboro, KY Sept. 6, 1921 Vance Girl On Trial For Murder Father of Girl Was Killed While He Slept By Own Shotgun By Associated Press Bardstown, Ky., Sept 6 -- The case of Allie Nolan Vance, fourteen year old daughter of the late Charles Vance, a wealthy Nelson county farmer, who is charged with her father's murder, was called in court here today for a preliminary hearing. Charles A. Vance, a wealthy Nelson county farmer, was shot and killed while he slept in his home six miles from Bardstown the night of August 18, 1921. A shotgun was used and the muzzle was placed so close to his chest that his heart was literally torn to pieces. Investigation of the crime revealed that Vance had been shot with his own shotgun and that the gun had been fired through an open window. It also developed that two days before he had chastised his pretty 14 year old daughter, Allie Nola Vance, because she went to a party with one boy and returned with another to whom the father objected. Bloodhounds called to the scene of the crime found a trail leading from a porch on which the window is located, to a chicken house and thence back to the house and to a door behind which three guns were stacked. One of the guns gave indications of having been fired a short time before and a piece of window curtain was found on it. The 14 year old daughter admitted that the gun which had been fired had been in her hands but stated that she had merely straightened it after her father was shot, because it looked like it was going to fall. The coroner's jury which investigated the case returned a verdict that Vance's wife and daughter, Allie Nolan, were "parties to the crime." Joe Lindsey, an itinerant peddler, formerly in the employ of Vance, was arrested as a suspect but later was released. ______________________________