Spencer County

QUICK VENGEANCE FOR NEGRO BRUTE Was Being Taken to Shelbyville to Escape Mob. While in the Smoking Car, a Fusillade Left Him Riddled With Bullets. ATTEMPTED ASSAULT CHARGED Taylorsville, Ky., July. 8. – Lon Beard, a young negro, charged with an…

SHOT TO DEATH BY MOB Lon Beard, a Negro, Charged With Assault, Riddled With Bullets at Normandy, Ky. Louisville, Ky., July 8. – A special to the Times from Shelbyville, Ky., says: Lon Beard, a negro who had been arrested on a charge of assaulting…

The white Christians of Shelbyville, Ky., mobbed and lynched a Negro the first of the week who was simply charged with assaulting Mrs. Chester Crawford, a white lady. To prove that the white Christian gentlemen were simply savaged and not in favor of…

Swift and Speedy Revenge. At Normandy, Spencer county, Ky., Chester Crawford, a young farmer, shot and instantly killed Lon Beard, a negro, who the night before attempted to assault Mrs. Crawford. Beard was being taken from Taylorsville to…

ANOTHER NEGRO LYNCHED FOR THE “USUAL CRIME” Louisville, Ky., July 7. – A special from Shelbyville, Ky., says “Lon” Beard, the negro who was arrested charged with assaulting a white woman at Normandy, was lynched there to-day. He was being taken to…