Mary Cross - Robert Hemingray

To be Tried for Assault With Intent to Kill Jailer

[Newspaper]

Publication: The Daily Commonwealth

Covington, KY, United States
vol. VII, no. 20, p. 4, col. 2

LOCAL NEWS.

MARY CROSS, the notorious negro woman who served an eighteen month's sentence in the jail for shooting at Mr. Robert Hemingray, and who was put under $1,000 bond to keep the peace, was taken before 'Squire Ewan this morning to be tried for assault with intent to kill, upon Turnkey Frank Meyers. The case was continued till to-morrow afternoon and she was put in jail till that time. She made the assault on Mr. Meyers some months since while she was confined in jail. She was not able to give the $1,000 bail when her jail sentence expired, but upon her promise to leave the city, she was released. She went to Philadelphia and promised to stay there, but she turned up in Cincinnati a few days since. She was arrested there this morning and brought to this city in a patrol wagon.

Keywords:	Hemingray : Mary Cross
Researcher notes:
Supplemental information:
Researcher:	Bob Stahr
Date completed:	December 31, 2006 by: Glenn Drummond;