Mysterious Stone Throwing.
Versailles, Ky. July 31. – The inhabitants of Mundy’s Landing, on the Kentucky river, in this (Woodford) county, are considerably nonplused and worked up over the discharge of showers of stones descending in their midst. Several persons have been seriously hurt and roofs of houses made to rattle like musketry. The scene and location of these mysterious visitations are at and near the home of Mrs Lucretia Mundy, widow of Lowry Mundy, who died from the effects of poison administered, as charged, by his wife and Dr. Davis, the latter now serving a life sentence in the penitentiary for being guilty of the poisoning, and Mrs Mundy now under indictment as accessory to the murder.
The first notice taken of the falling stones was on Monday last, when parties picking blackberries in a patch some distance from the Mundy mansion were surprised at the dropping of small stones in their midst, and continuing to descend at intervals. Their surprise changed to alarm, and with buckets and berries they beat a hasty retreat from the patch. The next day, Mrs Dr. Davis, when about a hundred yards from her house, was struck severely on the arm by a stone from some unknown direction. Miss Annie Mundy was also hurt, and very severely, by a descending stone upon her arm. Miss Eva Mundy the next day was hit and slightly hurt. A negro man (Henry) was struck and knocked over a cliff, which came very near ending his career. Saturday and Sunday several negroes were struck, one or two of them being severely injured.
The people of the neighbourhood, of course, are stirred up. Some think the work of some malicious individual, or individuals, who are creating the sensation. Others think it of the supernatural order. But whether from natural or unnatural causes, all are of the opinion that it is a very strange affair.
A great many people have been in town to-day from the section mentioned. Your correspondent has taken pains to talk with several intelligent, cool and unsensational gentlemen, who say that they don’t understand the matter, and think that these occurrences are very mysterious. Several houses beside the Davis-Mundy mansion have been struck, and the stones descent perpendicularly, and not horizontally as if thrown by the hand of an individual.
The Rocky Mountain News (Daily), August 1st, 1886.