Warren County

Harper, Lexington Weekly Leader, December 29, 1892

Bob Harper Dies At the Hands of a Mob at Bowling Green— Sudden Ending to the Inquiry in Progress— The Prisoner Captured in the Court House— And Hung From a Beech street in the Fair Grounds Bowling Green, Ky., Dec. 28– Bob Harper has paid the…

Skaggs, Hartford Ohio County News, April 22, 1891

KILLED BY A MOB. A Murderer Meets Sudden Retribution at the Hands of Masked Men in Warren County. BOWLING GREEN, KY., April 16.--At 2 o’clock this afternoon the news was received at this town of a mob that visited the old Union neighborhood, this…

Skaggs, Cleveland Gazette, April 25, 1891

Seven White Curs Kill a Boy BOWLING GREEN. KY.--William Skaggs, a colored boy eighteen years old, met death, early last week Thursday morning, a victim to mob violence, in the country about two miles from this city. Skaggs, on Tuesday, went up into…

Skaggs, Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky Leader), April 17, 1891

FILLED WITH BULLETS. FATE OF A NEGRO BOY WHO CUT A WHITE ONEA Mob's Vengeance About Two Miles from Bowling Green, Kentucky-The Victim of the Cutting Will Also Pass in His Checks Special to THE LEADER Bowling, Green, KY., April 17.—William Skaggs,…

Skaggs, Kansas City Times, April 17, 1891

A Murder Summarily Avenged. LOUISVILLE, KY., APRIL 16–Seven masked men visited the old Union neighborhood near Bowling Green early this morning and shot to death Will Skaggs, a negro 18 years of age, who on Tuesday fatally cut a young white man…

Skaggs, Osceola Record, April 23, 1891

NEWS NOTES. An armed mob shot and killed in Warren county, Ky., Will Skaggs, colored, an escaped murderer.

Morton, Hartford Ohio County News, February 10, 1897

Another Kentucky Lynching. BOWLING GREEN, KY., Feb. 4—Robert Morton, colored, was hanged by a mob about three miles from Rockfield, shortly after midnight last night. The lynchers went about the work in a quiet way, and the people of this vicinity…

Morton, Owensboro Twice-A-Week Messenger, February 6, 1897

A NEGRO LYNCHED In Morgan County fo Writing an Insulting Letter to a White Woman Bawling [sic] Green, Feb. 4.—Last night, near Rockfield, ten miles from this city, a negro named Robert Morton yesterday wrote an insulting note to Miss Tillie…

Morton, Freeman, February 13, 1897

LYNCHED FOR WRITING A DISRESPECTFUL LETTER We learn from the Standard, published in Lexington, Ky., that a Robert Morton was lynched in Bowling Green, Ky., Feb. 4th for writing an insulting and insinuating letter to a white lady. The Standards…

Morton, Richmond Climax, February 10, 1897

GUARDS OVERPOWERED And Robert Morton Taken out By a Mob and Hanged BOWLING GREEN, KY., Feb. 5.—Robert Morton, colored, was hanged by a mob about three miles from Rockfield, shortly after midnight Wednesday night. It is said that the negro, a son of…

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