The Turnbo Manuscripts
by Silas Claiborne Turnbo
1844-1925
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SHOT DOWN IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS DAUGHTER
By S. C. Turnbo
One of the horrible murders that was committed in Civil War times in what
is now Boone County, Arkansas, is the following which was dictated for the
use of the writer by Mr. Isaac Milum to W. L. Ridinger and Mr. Ridinger
forwarded the same to me by letter at Protem, Taney County, Missouri, January
21, 1895. Mr. Milum said that in the year 1863 Jake Baughman who lived 6
miles northeast of Bellfonte was attacked one night by a robber and after
he had broke the door down and entered the house he demanded a sum of money
from Baughman. It was late in the night and Mr. Baughman had retired to
bed. He and one of his daughters were living there alone. When the bandit
got to the door and began pounding on the door shutter for admittance Mr.
Baughman and his daughter leaped from their beds and snatched up an ax each
that they kept In the house of nights and attempted to defend themselves
when the mans partner in crime who had remained on the outside shot Mr.
Baughman through the window. The ball taking effect near the right nipple
from he died on the second day following the night he was shot. The murderers
left the house at once.
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