Robert Harlen
Birth: 1916
Death: June 8, 1928
Tell City, Indiana – Robert Harlen, age 11, died Friday, June 8, 1928 at St. Marys Hospital in Evansville, from injuries received when a auto crashed into the bicycle he was riding. Survived by parents Mr. and Mrs. William Harlen.

The Breckinridge News, 2 Apr 1893 Cloverport, Kentucky AFTER MANY YEARS Eight Farmers of Perry County, Ind., Are Brought up for a Lynching Three Are Held Over by the Examining Court at Cannelton and the Rest Are Discharged Cannelton, Indiana, April 1

– Yesterday in this city eight men were granted a preliminary trail before Esquire Heck upon the charge of having hung John Davidson on the night of June 1, 1887. Their names are John Flannagan, Sr., Wm. Donnelly, John Sigler, George Sigler, Jacob L. Esarey, Wilford King, and Phillip Teverlan. Evidence sufficient to hold some of them over was established and John Flannagan, Sr., John Sigler, and Jacob L. Esarey were held over without bail and were sent to jail. The others were discharged. On March 11 affidavits were sworn out against twelve men, eight of whom where present to-day. Three of them could not be secured and one is in the penitiary at Jeffersonville. They will be tried at the May term of Circuit Court. On May 29, 1887, Clay Davidson took Miss Annie Flannagan away from her home, near Doolittle’s Mills, this county, by force, gagged her and cruelly assaulted her. She was kept out from 9 am until 7 am the next morning, and when found was tied hand and foot to a tree. Davidson fled from her only when he saw a crowd coming to rescue her. This enraged the populas and they scoured the country for him. In the meantime the mob suspicioned that his brother John has something to do with the terrible assault and they promptly swung him to a tree. Clay escaped and was caught the following October near Owensboro, Ky. He was brought to this city and in November, 1887, was tried and sent to the State prison, for twenty-one years, where he is now. Henry Enlow on March 11 filed the affidavits before Esquire Heck, and last night the defense employed Judge Wm. A. Land, a prominent and able attorney of this city. Eleven of these men are representative farmers of their section of Perry county and are sufficiently able to pay for the defense. It is understood that Judge Land is to get a fee of $1,000. The final trial will be held in May at the term of Circuit court. There are over a 100 witnesses. – Louisville Commercial.