2 10 15 https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/54524561cf6577043ae92281a7fcbe57.png 82ffbf8e49935d814ec25fe372a40123 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Caldwell County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Merrick, New York Times, June 2, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Merrick, Walter Mob, hanging Charge, dynamiting a general store Description An account of the resource <h3>Kentuckians Lynch Dynamite Suspect</h3> <div style="text-align: center;">Man Awaiting Trial on Charge of Blowing Up Store Is Seized in Night at Princeton ---------------------------------------</div> <div style="text-align: center;">JAILOR BOUND BY CAPTORS -------------------------------------</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Victim Was Accused of Setting Off Blast in Feud Because His Boy Was Whipped in School.</div> PRINCETON, Ky., June 1 (AP).--Walter Merrick, 48, white, was taken from the county jail by a mob late last night and his body was found hanging from a tree three miles from here today. The lynching party entered the room of the jailer, Curt Jones, bound him, took his keys and departed with the prisoner without arousing any citizens. Merrick was to have been tried June 13 on a charge of dynamiting the store of M. P’Poole at Hopson, near here, last February. P’Poole was seriously injured and was in a hospital at Nashville two months. A boy near the building suffered a broken arm because of the blast. Intense feeling over the explosion caused a fear of mob violence after Merrick was arrested in February, but it was believed to have subsided. The lynching was a complete surprise. Six automobiles in procession moved into Princeton late in the night, stopped at the jail and a few minutes later were speeding toward Hopson. Merrick, according to his fellow-prisoners, said nothing when taken. Half an hour after the departure, from the jail Jones succeeded in arousing other members of his family, who released him, and he then notified officers. The P’Poole explosion, authorities charged, was set off by Merrick as a result of his son being whipped by a school teacher. Merrick carried the case to court, where P’Poole, as chairman of the county school board, sided with the teacher. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1932/06/02/archives/kentuckians-lynch-dynamite-suspect-man-awaiting-trial-on-charge-of.html?searchResultPosition=1">nytimes.com</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The New York Times Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1932-06-02 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grace Yi Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Caldwell County 1930-1940 Caldwell County Grace Yi Merrick Transcribed White victim https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/48318e6182ef294fcb6eafea6441ded9.jpg 8f2e4a3c0d416e3247e4311e9dc31e85 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Caldwell County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Merrick, Waterbury (CT) Democrat, June 1, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Merrick, Walter Charge, dynamiting a general store Mob, hanging Description An account of the resource <h3>Lynchers Took Dynamiter Out and Hanged Him</h3> 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, carried him down a country road and hanged him to a tree. Merrick was held here on a charge of dynamiting a general store owned by J. M. Pool at Hopson, nine miles from here. The dynamiting occurred February 8. Curtis Jones, jailer, was bound. The masked band, working swiftly, took Jones keys, unlocked Merrick’s cell and dragged him into their cars. The commotion in the jail corridors was brief and the sleeping town was not aroused. Merrick was found hanging to a tree in Cadiz road, two miles away, at daybreak. The store dynamiting resulted in bitter feeling in the Hopson community. Merrick was arrested February 9, the following day, and taken to Louisville because of the strained situation. He later was brought here. Trial was set for June 13. Pool suffered a fractured skull in the explosion which wrecked his store, causing damage of $10.00. Harold Nabb, a 13-year-old boy, was injured. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/876479466/?terms=%22Walter%20Merrick%22%20&match=1">Newspapers.com</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Waterbury (CT) Democrat Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1932-06-01 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grace Yi Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Caldwell County 1930-1940 Caldwell County Grace Yi Merrick Transcribed White victim https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/11fd13890c494ee851559e0023965a94.jpg 269491f0532aea96a750ccc13bf77c5b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Caldwell County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Merrick, Indianapolis Times, July 19, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Merrick, Walter Charge, dynamiting a general store Mob, hanging Description An account of the resource <h3> KENTUCKY LYNCHERS FREE; OFFICERS REFUSE TO TAKE ANY STEP TO ARREST THEM </h3> “I’ve Got Nothing to Say,” Is Only Answer Sheriff Will Give; County Attorney Won’t Make It His Business. ------------------------- KLU-KLUX TERRORS ARE FEARED ----------------------------- Suspect in Bombing of Store Dragged From Jail and Hanged After Beating by Mob; Grand Jury “Can’t Find Evidence.”  By James W. Bell Times Staff Writer PRINCETON, KY., July 19.--On the night of May 31, mob law broke out in Caldwell county. A man awaiting legal trial was taken from jail and condemned to death by a mob, which hanged him to a tree after beating him.  In the seven weeks since no one has been arrested.  “I have nothing to say about the lynching,” said Sheriff P. J. Blackburn. “The sheriff’s office is not an information bureau. Whatever I have to say on matters pertaining to my office will be said in the court and in the courts only.”  County Attorney John O. Hardin also is silent as to any efforts to arrest the mob members. He says he has not talked to any members of the family of the man murdered by the mob since the lynching concerning plans to apprehend the lynchers or on any other subject.  The victim was Walter Merrick, 42, owner of a farm on which he lived near Hopson, ten miles south of Princeton.  Two Are Badly Hurt He was awaiting trial on an indictment charging him with bombing the store of Millard P’Pool, Hopson merchant, Feb. 3. P’Pool, in the store, and Harold Nabb, 13, standing on the front porch were hurt badly. The boy has recovered but P’Pool still is using crutches.  Merrick was arrested on suspicion based largely on enmity between him and P’Pool. He was arrested at his home a few hours after the explosion. It was said that anger over a disputed $1.70 grocery bill had been fanned by a whipping Merrick’s son received in school. P’Pool is prominent in politics and business in Caldwell county. His unusual name is a shortening of the original family name of Petilpool.  One Dog Was Used It was reported officially that “bloodhounds” had led deputies from the ruins of P’Pool’s store to Merrick’s home. Later grand jury inquiry brought out it was one police dog.  Public opinion divided sharply as to this evidence. Reports were current that P’Pool had incurred the enmity of moonshiners or bootleggers.  Governor Ruby Laffoon, for the commonwealth, offered $200 reward in the bombing case.  But it was more than a month after the lynching that Laffoon offered a $200 award for convicting evidence against the lynchers. This was on condition, which was met, that Caldwell County offer a like sum.  Can’t Find Evidence The American Civil Liberties Union widely announced $500 reward for information leading to arrest of any participant, charging that the names of men in the mob “are well known to many in the community,” A grand jury, questioning persons near the scene reported it “was unable to find evidence of any nature showing any person that was in the mob or had anything to do with it.”  In instructing this grand jury, Circuit Judge Charles W. Wilson of Smithland said, “Mob violence is violation of the law and the court calls attention to that, and it is your duty to investigate and if you have evidence of the guilty parties it is your duty to indict.”  “It is a serious thing, but no more serious than violation of any other law.”  “I only talked to the sheriff a little while over the telephone on the night the mob hanged Walter.” Mrs. Mattle Merrick, 34, widow, said.  Klu-Klux Terrors Feared “‘They hung Walter’, he told me, and then asked what I wanted to do with the body. I told them to bring it home. He never said anything to me about arresting the persons who did it, nor communicated with me in any way.  “I have never been to see the sheriff because I don’t feel that it would do any good.”  Feeling is running high here and throughout Caldwell county over the lynching. There is some fear that the terrors of the old night riders and the more recent Klu-Klux Klan which had 1,000 members in Caldwell county, again are imminent. W. J. Miller, attorney, who fought the Klan here at the height of its power, places the present Klan strength here at “an active 150 men.” That the lynching of Merrick was well organized is indicated by the fact that almost four months elapsed between the bombing and the lynching. Excitement over the bombing had subsided.  Witnesses said the “mob” was composed of about twenty men who took Merrick from jail just before midnight, working silently and quickly. No disturbance prefaced the lynching. <h3> </h3> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/873214397/?terms=%22Walter%20Merrick%22%20&match=1">Newspapers.com</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Indianapolis Times Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1932-7-19 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grace Yi Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Caldwell County 1930-1940 Caldwell County Grace Yi Merrick White victim https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/41fa9c8f3a7d932e230ebd45b507d32b.jpg 00202abed5f36277e174c34c85ae2023 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Caldwell County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Merrick, Bismarck Tribune, June 1, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Merrick, Walter Charge, dynamiting a general store Mob, hanging Description An account of the resource <h3>Kentuckian Hanged By Lynching Party</h3> 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 Jailer Curt Jones’ room, bound him, took his keys and departed with the prisoner without arousing any citizens. Merrick was to have been tried June 13 on a charge of dynamiting the store of M. O’Poole near here last February. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/image/851872556/?terms=%22Walter%20Merrick%22%20&match=1">Newspapers.com</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The Bismarck Tribune Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1932-6-1 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grace Yi Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Caldwell County 1930-1940 Caldwell County Grace Yi Merrick Transcribed White victim https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/d8d4ae47b832f1dbde170e98e6f113ad.jpg aa266e562af92884ba5cff4b2d11119e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Caldwell County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Merrick, Washington (DC) Times, June 1, 1932 Subject The topic of the resource Merrick, Walter Charge, dynamiting a general store Mob, hanging Description An account of the resource <h3>Mob Lynches Man Jailed In Blast</h3> Masked Crowd Raids Bastille in Princeton, KY,; Victim Found on Gibbet PRINCETON, 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, dragged two miles from town, and hanged to a tree. Merrick was awaiting trial June 13 on charges of dynamiting J. M. “Jack” P’Pool’s general store at Hopson, nine miles from here, last February 8. P’Pool was seriously injured in the blast, as was 13-year-old Harold Nabb, playing nearby. Revenge Was Motive Authorities charged Merrick and P’Pool had quarreled and the dynamiting was in revenge. Six automobiles carried the men to the lynching. They gathered on the outskirts of the city and at midnight their leader rang the jail door bell. As Night Jailer Curtis Jones opened the door, he faced a dozen revolvers. The leader said: “We want Merrick.” Without another word the mob pressed on into the jail office. Three men remained with Jones, tying him hand and foot and taking his keys. The others went to Merrick’s cell. The prisoner was awakened. The mob leader said: “Let’s go.” Merrick said: “What’s this all about?” Then he apparently realized his fate, and acquiesced with only a mild protest. Speeded Out of Town He was half dragged, half carried to one of the automobiles and speeded out of town. It was a half hour before Jailer Jones broke his bonds and telephoned Sheriff Press Blackburn, who with deputies hunted in vain for the mob. Shortly after dawn Paul Grant, a youth, traveling along the road, came upon Merrick’s body hanging from a tree. Officers cut down the body and brought it here. P’Pool was widely known in western Kentucky where he was a bank director and a school trustee in addition to owning a store. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Newspapers.com Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1932-6-1 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Grace Yi Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Caldwell County 1930-1940 Caldwell County Grace Yi Merrick Transcribed White victim