Edwardsville Intelligencer -Edwardsville, Illinois
03 June 1914
Dream Slayer
Gets Life
Hazard Ky. Man, who was forewarned
several times he would kill is sentenced
Lexington, Ky. June 3, in repeated
dreams several nights before the crime. J. O. Combs says
he say himself murder Town Marshall Jay Draughn at
Hazard, Ky. Combs was given a life sentence. Combs swore
to his peculiar dreams and several of his witnesses also
declared that Combs went to them and told them he had
dreamed he and Draughan had had trouble and that he had
shot Draughn. Combs one night put his arm around Draughn
and shot him to death.
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