Alexandria Jail
Alexandria, Kentucky
Jailer Herman and Cora Kemper Story
Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 25 May 1859, page 3
Monday last being the opening of the Circuit Court in Campbell County in Alexandria. In the case of Bricker, the counterfeiter, who escaped from jail last fall and was recently recaptured, in whose behalf the lawyer made an impressive speech.
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 16 August 1871, page 7
The County Jail at Alexandria has been without an occupant for two years and a half.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 20 March 1880, page 7
Tony Hoff gave himself up to the authorities and is now in jail at Alexandria, but will not get a trial at this term and Judge Boyd is in doubt as to whether he has the privilege of calling a special term of the court to try the case.
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Kentucky Post, 14 February 1895, page 4
Campbell County Fiscal Court is considering question of erecting a new county jail at Alexandria.
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Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling, who murdered Pearl Bryan, spent time in the Alexandria Jail in 1896 before their hanging in Newport.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 10 February 1903, page 5
Clinton Hodges, 36, a lunatic from Grants Lick in the upper end of Campbell County, was brought to the Newport Jail Monday and locked up on a commitment from the court of Squire Jesse Darlington. A brother of Hodges, while suffering from dementia, committed suicide by hanging himself in the Alexandria Jail last summer.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 2 July 1904, page 5
Governor Beckham Saturday pardoned Joseph Hood, of Bellevue, upon a petition signed by many citizens and by the jury that tried him. He was sentenced to 12 months in the Alexandria Jail for grand larceny, breaking into a home and taking $50.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 25 November 1904, page 5
Luke Willis, a boy about 17 was sentenced to 60 days in the Alexandria Jail and a $550 fine by Judge Berry Friday. Several months ago he was arrested in Dayton for taking a little girl in a stable and attempting an assault.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 9 December 1904, page 5
William Dowling and William McElwee charged with money under false pretenses were each given 90 days in the County Jail at Alexandria this morning.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 26 August 1922, page 1
Campbell Co. Jail at Alexandria again has been made safe for prisoners, according to Herman Kempler, jailer, the cells ready for criminals of the worst type.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 10 July 1924, page 1
Attempted jail delivery at Alexandria was frustrated Wednesday night when prisoners failed in their plan to saw a log wall of the jail, built more than 100 years ago.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 29 July 1925, page 7
The attempt of four prisoners in the Alexandria Ky. jail to chop their way to freedom thru a wall Tuesday night was discovered early Wednesday when Jailer Herman Kemper returned from Newport. The four, Freeman Good, Wayne Cameron, Melvin Banks, negro and William Ginson, negro, bored sheet iron of the wall but were hampered by brick.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 2 October 1927, page 12
The old Campbell co. jail at Alexandria will be sold next Tuesday. Bids for the ancient structure will be opened by Judge William C Buten at 10 am. The site on which the jail stands is in the heart of Alexandria and is considered to be ideal for a business place. The old building is said to be about 90 years old.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 25 November 1927, page 2
More than 300 persons attended the formal opening Thursday of the new county jail at Alexandria. The new jail is said to be one of the most modern in the state and will house 24 prisoners.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 6 December 1927, page 7
Members of the Campbell co. Fiscal Court have concluded that no one wants the old Alexandria Jail. Only two bids were submitted for the purchase of the jail and property and they were rejected because the offer was too small. One bid was for $2500 and the other for $2575.