Caldwell County

Merrick, Washington (DC) Times, June 1, 1932

Mob Lynches Man Jailed In Blast Masked Crowd Raids Bastille in Princeton, KY,; Victim Found on GibbetPRINCETON, Ky., June 1 (I.N.S.).--Walter Merrick, 45, white farmer, was taken from his cell in the county jail here by a masked mob early today,…

Merrick, Bismarck Tribune, June 1, 1932

Kentuckian Hanged By Lynching Party Princeton, KY., June 1.--(AP)--Walter Merrick, 48, was removed from the county jail by a mob late Tuesday night, and his body was found Wednesday hanging from a tree three miles away. The lynching party entered…

Merrick, Indianapolis Times, July 19, 1932

KENTUCKY LYNCHERS FREE; OFFICERS REFUSE TO TAKE ANY STEP TO ARREST THEM “I’ve Got Nothing to Say,” Is Only Answer Sheriff Will Give; County Attorney Won’t Make It His Business. ------------------------- KLU-KLUX TERRORS ARE…

Merrick, Waterbury (CT) Democrat, June 1, 1932

Lynchers Took Dynamiter Out and Hanged Him Was Prisoner in Kentucky Jail- He Had Blown Up Store and Injured the Proprietor Princeton, KY, June 1--(UP)--Masked men in autos rode up to the jail here to-day and removed Walter Merrick, 40, a prisoner,…

Merrick, New York Times, June 2, 1932

Kentuckians Lynch Dynamite Suspect Man Awaiting Trial on Charge of Blowing Up Store Is Seized in Night at Princeton--------------------------------------- JAILOR BOUND BY CAPTORS------------------------------------- Victim Was Accused of Setting…

Griffey, The Cincinnati Post, October 15, 1894

FOUND THE KEYS And Entering the Cell Dragged the Negro Out, Took Him Three Miles Down the Road And After Riddling Him With Bullets And Mutilating Him in a Horrible Manner Left His Dead Body Swinging From a Tree. Princeton, Ky., Oct. 15.…

Griffey, The Buffalo Enquirer, October 22, 1894

A RACE RIOT. NEGROES ENDEAVORING TO WORK UP A RACE RIOT. Princeton, Ky., Oct. 22. – Considerable excitement is reported in South christian in the neighborhood of Lafayette and Peedee over the efforts of negro leaders to work up a race riot. The…

Griffey, Evansville Courier and Press, October 16, 1894

A KENTUCKY LYNCHING. A Mob Endeavored to Make the Punishment Fit the Crime. PRINCETON, Ky., Oct. 15. – Willis Giffey, the fiend confined in jail here, has paid the penalty of his crime. Sunday night at 11:30 o’clock a mob of 100 or more men entered…

Griffey, Richmond Planet, October 20, 1894

Another Colored Man Lynched – His Body Horribly Mutilated PRINCETON, KY, Oct. 15 – Willis Griffey, the colored man confined to jail here, was lynched here last night at 11:30 o’clock by a mob of one hundred or more men. They went to the jail and…

Griffey, The Nashville American, October 16, 1894

ANOTHER ACCOUNT. HOPKINSVILLE, KY. Oct. 15. –[Special.]– Information has been received here to-day from Princeton to the effect that Willis Griffey, the colored brute who outraged the person of Miss Lena Berry, in the southern portion of this…

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