Emil Hending
Kentucky Post, Monday, 9 February 1903, page 3
Emil Hending, a young baker, was on his rounds delivering bread
at 5:15 am Saturday when he was waylaid by two men, who followed him from Sixth
and Columbia Streets, Newport. At Ann near Seventh, on of them pulled a knife
and the other a gun and demanded all he had, threatening to kill him if he made
an outcry. Hending had no money and the highwaymen took some rolls.
The next robbery was of Zeidman's at Seventh and Isabella. Saturday night Hending reported the matter to the police and caused a warrant to be issued for the arrest of William Coughlin and J Hawker Smith. Chief Smith found Night Chief Fitzgerald found Coughlin at 1 pm in his bed in Garden Place and Smith was arrested at 3 pm at his home on West Sixth Street by Patrolmen Kolfrat and Shea.
Grocer Zeidman, who was held up Saturday morning, called at the Police Headquarters Sunday and identified the two men as the ones who entered his store and attempted to rob it. A little girl Lorena Meyer, who was in the store at the time, identified the two men as the ones who were there at 5:30 Saturday morning.