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Shots rang out at Huber's Station, a railroad depot just south of Louisville, Kentucky on August 11, 1904. Less than a day later, Francis Hagan lay dead as his grieving widow arrived from their Alabama home, too late to bid him farewell. Meanwhile his killer, John Barbour, sat in jail pondering his future. Within these pages follow the trail of events that brought these men, once friends, to this tragic end; and learn what John Barbour's fate would be. This true story is filled with charges of deception, fraud, and attempted assassinations, and is based on original court records and depositions, and on newspaper accounts of the time. In the end, the reader is challenged to decide if justice was truly served.

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Charles Hartley, retired teacher and webmaster of the Bullitt County History Museum, has turned his hand to writing about the history of his county and its people. Author of The Train Wreck of Shepherdsville, Kentucky, December 20, 1917, the story of the worst train wreck in Kentucky history which is available through the museum, Hartley's latest effort describes the Hagan-Barbour feud that provoked the most dramatic murder trial in the County's history.

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