Martha
N Davis
Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Friday, 12 May 1882, page 6
Day before yesterday at about 4 pm a young woman named Martha N Davis, who was occupying a vacant house on Lazy Hill, near the Licking River Coal Elevator, Newport, with a lot of lawless characters, was shot with a musket loaded with birdshot in the calf of her leg by a man named Frank Grogan, who aimed the weapon and sent the contents of it after she was going up the stairs.
Nothing was heard of the matter until yesterday afternoon when Chief Boyd went out to the house and had the woman brought to Newport and lodged in the station house where Dr. R A Dameron, who was called in to attend the woman, extracted several shot from the wound. Frank Grogan, the man who is charged with having done the shooting, was arrested and lodged in a cell of the station house, and will be tried this morning before the Mayor on the charge of shooting and wounding with intent to kill.