Miss Mary Tassin
Event: fatality 22 Apr 1902
Source: Tell City Anzieger 26 Apr 1902
From Cannelton.  The corpse of Miss Mary Tassin who lost her life in the destruction of the steamer City of Pittsburg, arrived here Tuesday accompanied by her brother, Alf. Tassin, by way of the Soutthern Railroad from Cairo, Ill.  Her burial took place on Wednesday from St. Patrick’s Church.

Same Issue:  Terrible Castastrophe,  The Steamer City of Pittsburg burned to the water level.  Between sixty and seventy persons killed.  Among the killed was Miss Maria Tassin of Cannelton, who took passage to Memphis aboard the steamer on Saturday.  As is said, she wanted, in spite of the warning of the offical, to fasten her shoes, whereby she lost precious time and unfortunately had to pay with her life.  Her body arrived Tuesday morning in Cannelton by train fro Cairo, Ill.  The departed, who was killed in such a tragic manner in the fire catastrophe Sunday aboard the Steamer City of Pittsburg, wanted to pay a visit to relatives in Memphis Tenn.  Miss Tassin, wh died at the youthful age of 19 years, was always respected and popular due to her friendly nature.  The burial took place on Wednesday morning from St. Patrick’s Church and many friend as well as her fellow workers in the cotton factory where she worked attended the same.

The Breckenridge News ~ 20 Apr 1904
Cloverport, Kentucky
Masterson ~ Tassia
James Masterson and Miss Anna Tassin were married in Cannelton last week.  Miss Tassin is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Tassin of Cannelton.  Mr. Masterson is the son of Patrick Masterson, formerly of this city.  He is well known here and at Stephensport.  They will reside at Troy, Ind. where Mr. Masterson is engaged in conducting the Riverside hotel with his father.

Leopold

CHARLES PIERRE VELSIN was born November 01, 1823 in Indiana, and died March 20, 1894 in Indiana.  He married CATHERINE ANN M. PETTITEMANCHE.  She was born October 02, 1832, and died November 12, 1900.

Notes for CHARLES PIERRE VELSIN:

Lived 1/2 mile N of Leopold, ran a small distillery, also continued it after tax imposed, _______ down, because poor, the revenue officers only destroyed the “Machine” and told him to quite.

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May 27, 1912 – Branchville, Oil Twp., Perry Co., IN

1. Stephen A D Bovinet killed his wife Geneva ‘Neva’ Ann Sprinkle with an ax and shot himself with a musket he brought home from the Spanish American War.
2. Steve Bovinet family lived in the house across the road from the Bernardi school. It was a very sad time when Mr. Bovinet murdered his wife with a hatchet, then ended his life by shooting himself with a shotgun. Their Son,Theodore Jennings Bovinet, witnessed the murder of his father and mother. The house was later considered a haunted house, and was unoccupied for sometime.

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Christine Agnes Bovinet m; Julius Babey d/o Louis A. Bovinet Catherine ‘Katie’ Faulkenburg

sadly we learn she was murdered. She died from a gunshot wound to the lung. “Mrs. Cath. Thorp” was the informant. So that’s her mom Katie. I’d guess that Katie was rather shaken at the time she provided the information. For instance, the date of birth is shown as “unknown” – and surely she knew when her daughter was born. She properly reported her own maiden name as Cathlerine Falkenberg (the spellings would undoubtedly be the funeral director’s; not necessarily the correct spellings), but she was confused when she gave Agnes’ father’s name. The “J.H.” for Agnes’ father is probably a confusion for Katie’s then husband, James H. Thorp. Why Falkenberg was given rather than Bovinet is undoubtedly just another error made because of the circumstances.
Ref: Margaret

Agnus was killed by her husband Julius Babey in 1915 in Louisville KY. He also shot Katie just right of the heart. She recovered and took the girls to Tulsa as her daughters and they were unaware of any of the scandal until they were teens.

Louisville, Ky., July 3 – Julius Babey, convicted of wife murder, will be sentenced to the electric chair today, the first white Louisville murderer to pay the penalty in this fashion. Babey was found guilty in the first degree of the murder of his wife, which took place April 23. His defense was insanity, and his mother testified in his behalf that he was injured by a blow on the head.

Julius Babey was convicted of murdering his wife Agnes. Julius appealed the conviction and on 28 Apr 1916, the Court of Appeals of Kentucky upheld the conviction. Governor Stanley (of Kentucky) granted clemancy by Executive Order to Julius for reasons of “Psychological Condition of Defendant”. Stanley was governor from 1919 to 1925.

Some details from page 82 of “The Southwest Reporter – Volume 185 – Comprising all the current decisions of the Supreme and Appellate Courts of Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas”, May 24 – June 14, 1916, St. Paul, West Publishing Co., 1916.
Julius Babey was convicted of murdering his wife Agnes. Julius appealed the conviction and on 28 Apr 1916, the Court of Appeals of Kentucky upheld the conviction.
The appellant, Julius Babey, was tried in the Jefferson circuit court, criminal division, under an Indictment charging him with the murder of his wife, Agnes Babey, whom he shot and killed in the city of Louisville, April 24, 1915. The jury by their verdict found him guilty of the crime charged and fixed his punishment at death. He complains of that verdict and judgment entered thereon; hence this appeal.
The crime was admitted by the appellant and, according to the evidence, was deliberately planned and brutally executed. The motive therefore, shown by the evidence, was the institution by the wife, a few days previously, of an action against him for a divorce and the custody of their children. The bringing of the divorce suit seemed to have greatly angered appellant toward his wife and her mother, with whom she and her children were living because of his inability or unwillingness to support them. The only defense interposed by appellant on the trial was that he was insane at the time of the homicide and by reason thereof not responsible for his act. The grounds urged in support of appellant’s motion for a new trial in the court below, and now relied on for a reversal of the judgment of conviction, are: (1) Alleged error of the circuit court in excluding competent evidence offered in his behalf on the trial; (2) misconduct of the commonwealth’s attorney in making improper statements in argument to the jury; (3) failure of the court to properly Instruct the jury; (4) newly discovered evidence.
The appeal failed and his conviction stood.

The 1920 census for Franklin, Franklin co., KY lists inmates of the Kentucky State Reformatory. Listed is Julius Babey, Prisoner, age 29, Widower, b Montana, f b KY, m b IN, occ Shoe Maker at Reformatory.

The 1930 census for Franklin, Franklin co., KY lists inmates of the Kentucky State Reformatory. Listed is Julius Babey, Prisoner No. 7509, age 37, Married, b KY, f b KY, m b KY, occ None.

So his death sentence may have been commuted by Gov. Stanley but he was still in prison as of 1930; 5 years after Gov Stanley left office. I could not find a death record for him in Kentucky.