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Grainger, The Owensboro Messenger, July 26, 1891.
Hanged To A Tree.A Negro Who Ran a White Man With a Knife Quietly Lynched in the Night.
Sarver, Hopkinsville South Kentuckian, March 14, 1882
Bob. Sarver, col:. who assaulted Miss. Tennie Ruby near Franklin, Friday, the 3rd inst was taken from the officers and lynched by a mob on the following Monday night, at the place where he attempted to commit the crime. The young lady was a school…
Sarver, Paris Bourbon News, March 10, 1882
One hundred masked men took Bob Sarvers, a colored man who attempted to outrage a young Miss of fifteen, from a train near Franklin, and hung him.
Sarver, Marshall Tri-Weekly Herald, March 14, 1882
HUNG BY A MOB.—Nashville dispatch of the 7th: Bob Sarver, who attempted to outrage the person of Miss Tennie Ruley, near Franklin, Ky., Friday, was taken from the guards while they were endeavoring to take him to Bowling Green for safety, Monday…
Sarver, Memphis Public Ledger, March 7, 1882
Served Him Right.
NASHVILLE, March 7,.—Bob Sarver, colored, was lynched at Franklin, Ky., last night for an attempt to rape a white girl sixteen years old, named Ruly.
Sarver, Memphis Daily Appeal, March 15, 1882
Three gentlemen arrested for taking the negro Sarver from the hands of the officers at Franklin, to be mobbed, are guarded in the jailer’s residence, and their trial comes off Monday. Public sentiment seems to be in their favor.
Sarver, Daily Memphis Avalanche, March 8, 1882
RAVISHER LYNCHED IN KENTUCKY.
Nashville, March 7.—Bob Sarver, colored, was lynched at Franklin, Ky., to-night, for an attempt to rape a white girl 16 years old named Ruly.
Sarver, Cincinnati Enquirer, March 8, 1882
SWIFT AND SURE
Is the Justice of Judge Lynch,And From His Decision There is No Appeal—How Bob Sarver Paid the Penalty of His Crime.SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.
BOWLING GREEN., March 7.—Your correspondent has just returned from the scene of the…
Sarver, Louisville Courier Journal, March 7, 1882
FRANKLIN. A BLACK BRUTE BOBS UP SERENELY IN THE TITLE ROLE OF A LYNCHING DRAMA.
[Special to the Courier-Journal.]
FRANKLIN, March 6.—A negro man by the name of Bob Sarver was taken from the custody of officers to-nightm as he was being passed into…