FIRST FELONY ON DOCKET.
On the twenty-first day of April, 1803, the little
village was completely upset by the arrest of Hugh McGary, charged
feloniously stealing and carrying away nineteen English guineas, two
half-eagles, thirty dollars in silver and six hundred dollars in bank
notes, the property of Samuel Baker, a guest of McGary's Tavern and whisky
shop. This was, perhaps, a greater bulk of metalic[sic] and papers values
than McGar had ever seen before, and the temptation to grow rich, even at
so great a risk, was more than he could withstand. The District Court met
at that time at Russellville, and what became of the prisoner that writer
is unable to say.
History of Henderson County, Kentucky
by Edmund L. Starling
p. 117
published in 1887
public domain material
