Thomas Todd
Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 20 December 1933, page 8
Found guilty by a jury late Tuesday in Campbell Circuit Court on two counts of shooting and wounding, Thomas Todd, 45, of Grand av. Newport, was fined $300 and costs and sentenced to one year in the county jail. Todd was charged with the shooting and wounding of William Scharstein and his wife, Ella, Keturah and Patterson streets, Newport.
The accused was fined $200 and costs given six months on the charge of shooting Scharstein and was fined $100 and costs and sentenced for the wounding of Mrs. Scharstein. Todd a friend of the couple was charged with having shot and wounded the victims on Aug 9 after declaring he was "gong to end it all." Thomas W Hardesty Jr. and Charles Melville, defense counsel contended the shooting was accidental. They claimed Todd, a World War veteran was intoxicated and the revolver was discharged accidentally when he was handling the weapon.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 22 July 1954, page 17
Requiem high mass for Thomas Todd, 61, of Elsmere, will be sung at 10 am Saturday at St Henry Church. Prayers will be said at 9 am at the Radel funeral home, Newport, where friends may call after 3 pm Friday. Burial will be in St Mary Cemetery. Mr. Todd was a retired insurance salesman for the Newport Benevolent Burial Association.
He leaves a widow, Esther Rackhorst Todd; a daughter Mary Esther; a step daughter, Mrs. Pearl Groh, Newport; two step sons, John and Charles Butts, both stationed with the US Navy at New York; a sister, Mrs. Lydia Carey, Joliet, Ill. and four grandchildren.