Glenn
Jolly
Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 18 June 1924,
page 1
A friendly handshake accompanied by the greeting, "Hello Jolly" preceded the shooting and serious wounding of Glen Jolly, 34, grocer, River rd. Silver Grove, Tuesday night, according to the account of the shooting given by J D Jolly, brother of the wounded man.
Chester Gregg, 35, Silver Grove, labor foreman in the C&O RR yard storeroom, who is married and has one child, is held in Newport Jail charged with the shooting. Jolly is at Speers Hospital with a bullet wound in his side. His condition is said to be serious. Jolly and Gregg, police say they were told, have been in dispute over a debt of $151 Gregg owed Jolly for groceries. In lieu of payment of this debt, Gregg's automobile was attached in Squire Walter Luke's court at Ft Thomas Monday.
According to the story told W W Bishop, C&O railroad detective, who arrested Gregg at his home after the shooting, Gregg appeared at the Jolly grocery about 10 pm. He asked for Glenn Jolly and when told he was not in, started upstairs to the rooms above the store where Jolly lived with his father, A V Jolly, and then turned and left the store, meeting Jolly on the street. After greeting him he is alleged to have pulled a pistol and shot him, the bullet entering Jolly's side below the heart. Gregg then fled, but was arrested at his home. A pistol was found in his possession, Bishop said.
While on his way to Ft Thomas with the prisoner, where he intended taking him before Squire Luken (sic), Bishop met Louis Tieman, Campbell co. sheriff and Edgar Riefer, a deputy, who had been informed of the shooting and were searching for Gregg, and he was turned over to them and taken to Newport Jail. Gregg refused to comment on the affair. The shooting will be investigated by the Campbell co. grand jury now in session.
Jolly is single and is in partnership with his father in the grocery business. He is a cousin of A J Jolly, Kentucky state representative.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 18 June 1924,
page 16
Glenn Jolly, grocer man, Silver Grove Ky. is in serious condition at
Speers Hospital, Dayton, of bullet wounds inflicted by a customer at his store,
on Twelve Mile pike, Tuesday night. Chester Greggs, River rd. section hand, is
held in Newport Jail charged with the shooting. Jolly, according to his father,
A V Jolly, is part owner of the grocery store. His son attached an auto
belonging to Greggs Monday to satisfy a bill owing the grocery.
The grocery was crowded with customers Tuesday night when Greggs entered and asked for Jolly. As Greggs started to leave the store, Jolly came in the door. According to witnesses Greggs drew a pistol and fired two shots. One bullet struck Jolly slightly below the heart.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 17 July 1924, page 2
W C Buten, Campbell co. Judge, continued until next Thursday the preliminary hearing of Chester Griggs, Silver Grove, charged with shooting with intent to kill Glenn Jolly, Silver Grove grocer in June.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 16 January 1925, page 1
Would you ask leniency for a man that shot you down in cold blood on your own premises? Not many people would but Glenn Jolly, grocer, Silver Grove, is not one of those. According to Judge A M Caldwell, Jolly sought him out recently and asked him to grant Chester Gregg, the man who did the shooting, a new trial. Judge Caldwell will be called upon to pass on a motion for a new trial in a few days.
When the case was tried several weeks ago, a jury gave Gregg a year in the penitentiary at Frankfort. Immediately following the shooting, William Tressler, C7o detective, who arrested Gregg, said the later told him that he "hoped Jolly would die." Now Jolly asks the court to do him a favor.
During the trial Gregg alleged that Jolly insulted his wife and in a fit of temporary insanity he shot Jolly. Jolly claimed the shooting occurred after he asked Gregg to pay a $130 grocery bill that had been on the books for several months.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 13 September 1951, page 2
Services will be held at 2 pm Friday at the Dobbling funeral home, Ft Thomas, for Glenn T Jolly, 61, retired owner of the Jolly & Son grocery store, Silver Grove, who collapsed and died Tuesday at his home, 3 River Road, adjacent to the business. Burial will be in Grandview Cemetery, Mentor. Mr. Jolly's death was due to a heart attack. Dr. Lee C Sauter, Campbell county, reported.
A member of the Silver Grove Baptist Church and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, he also was a member of Silver Grove Masonic Lodge, which will conduct the services.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Katherine Jolly; a son Gerald Jolly, US Army, stationed at Indiantown Gap, PA. and three sisters, Mrs. Lula Staten and Mrs. Iola Parker, both of Silver Grove and Mrs. Mary Goebel, Mentor.