Robert
Frederick Singleton
Kentucky Post, Monday, 8 April 1907, page 3
Congressman J L Rhincock has secured pension for: Robert F Singleton, Newport, $20 from Feb 14.
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Cincinnati Post, Thursday, 29 August 1907, page 6
Mrs. Ella Jones, wife of Thomas Jones, of Price Hill and daughter of Singleton, occupies a ward close to the one in which her father lies. She is in a serious condition and will submit to an operation which will determine her life in a few days.
Singleton was well known in Newport and served one term as a Fiscal Judge. He served during the war in an Ohio volunteer regiment and was vigorous, despite his 79 years. He drew a pension of $60 and it was a part of this money that he had in his possession when robbed. He does not remember going to the house and it is believed he was drugged.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 31 August 1907, page 3
Thus far police search for Walter West and Grace West, alias Lucille Elliott, alias Grace Billingsby, accused of the murder and robbery of R F Singleton in a Richmond st. rooming house has been futile. A waiter in the Casino Concert Hall says this man met Singleton in the concert hall Monday night, the night of the murder and took him away from there.
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Cincinnati Post, Monday, 2 September 1907, page 5
R F Singleton, victim of murderous badger workers, was buried Sunday at Evergreen, Newport. The service was held in the chapel at the cemetery and was attended by many. The GAR Post, of which Singleton was a member, conducted the service.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 4 January 1909, page 8
Walter Wohlweber, alias West is at the County Jail, awaiting transportation to the Reformatory at Mansfield, to serve an indeterminate term for the murder of Squire Robert F Singleton. West and a young woman named Grace Billingsby were living together as husband and wife at a rooming house on Richmond st. On the night of August 26, 1907, she met Singleton, a man 76 years old and a stranger to her and he accompanied her to her room.
Three days later the old man was found in a dying condition in that room, gagged and strapped hand and foot to a couch. His pockets had been rifled and turned inside out and the torn remnants of black check forms were found. West and the woman had fled. Singleton died the same day he was discovered.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 10 October 1912, page 1
Officials of organizations composed of Civil War veterans were stirred Thursday when they learned that Walter West, indicted for first degree murder and who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, will be paroled Nov 1 from the Mansfield O. Reformatory. West was indicted for the murder of Robert Singleton, former Magistrate of Newport Ky. who also served as an officer in the Northern army during the Civil War.