"Adapted from The Ashland Tragedy; The Crow-bar and the Ax - The Silent Witnesses, originally published circa 1885 by James M. Huff"--Copyright page.
Summary
Discusses the crime that occurred on Christmas Eve 1881 in Ashland, Kentucky, in which three children were brutally murdered and how the governor's untrained militia would turn on the town's citizens after the murderers were convicted.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-153).