Kate’s Notes: The “Gilliland Gang” of Pulaski County, Kentucky were notorious for a string of crimes, accused of everything from robbery to murder. Just how much of that reputation was deserved is still up for debate, but their infamy spread far beyond the borders of Kentucky. Two of the Gilliland boys, James Harvey and Josiah, were in 1891 hanged by a lynch mob in Somerset, Kentucky, for the murder of Sheriff McHargue, a charge they denied right to the end. For more on the Gilliland gang, see the Gilliland Trails discussion on this topic at: http://users.boardnation.com/~gillilandtrails/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=120

From the Hazel Green Herald
Hazel Green, Wolf County, Kentucky
06 November, 1891

EIGHTH GILLILAND CAUGHT
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Good Citizens Determined to Put an End
to the Gang of Robbers.

   Milton Gilliland was arrested Wednesday week by Deputy Sheriff Hansford and taken to Somerset, Ky., and in default of bail was lodged in jail. Young Gilliland is implicated with the notorious Gilliland gang in robberies committed a few years ago, for which crime he was recently indicted by the grand jury of Pulaski county. Milton Gilliland is a son of Wesley Gilliland, and a nephew of the notorious Doc Gilliland, who is still at large. This makes the eighth member of the gang who has been arrested. Some sixteen are under indictment, and some of them declare they will not be arrested. A united effort is being made by the best citizens of the county to forever break up the gang, and so far they have arrested half of the accused.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010