Pike County

FULL STORY OF HILL LYNCHING Confesses Crime and Mob Sings Hymn Before Hanging Murderer. DANVILLE, Ky., Dec. 18. – Elmer Hill, confessed child-murdered, paid the death penalty for his crimes Wednesday night. As the hangmen were looping the rope…

ELMER HILL IS HUNG BY MOB Was Taken Out Last Night at Monticello and Lynched. A mob at Monticello, Ky., last night found and took out of jail and hanged Elmer Hill, the white man charged with assault upon and the murder of his thirteen-year-old…

THE NECKTIE ROUTE. A Rope Placed Around Elmer Hill’s Neck and He is Jerked into Eternity. ABOUT THIRTY MEN DID THE WORK. The expected happened last Wednesday night when a mob of about thirty or forty citizens of Russell county visited the…