On May 14, 1923, Sank Bradley, the 31-year-old son of a former sheriff, was brought to Bowling Green to be housed in the Warren County Jail.

Bradley, along with an accomplice, attacked a 40-year-old farmer with rocks and sticks, inadvertently killing him. The crime was committed in Allen County, but the judge said the ensuing trial would become too sensational for a community as small as Scottsville; he ordered the man to be housed and tried in Warren County. The trial would occur one year later, and Bradley was sentenced to life in prison.

– “Way Back When in Warren County” is compiled by researchers at the Warren County Public Library and appears twice weekly in the Bowling Green Daily News. For more information about the library, visit warrenpl.org.