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Macklin, Louisville Courier-Journal, July 8, 1868
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Macklin, Jim
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<h3>The Pulpit and the Bar</h3>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Father Lambert Young— Letter from Hon. John L. Scott to Judge Ballard</strong><br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The case of Father Lamber Young drags, and will not be finally disposed of for two or three months to come. He was fined fifty dollars and costs by Judge Ballard, day before yesterday, for contempt of court, and held in a large sum to answer on the 14th or October. He has paid his fine, given bond as required, and yesterday returned to Frankfort. We give below a copy of the letter addressed to Judge Ballard by Hon. John Scott, Commonwealth’s Attorney of the Eighth Judicial District of Kentucky, which letter Father Young’s legal advisers asked leave to read to the court. The privilege, we believe, was refused, whereupon they sought and obtained permission to file it with other documentary evidence. It speaks for itself:<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Frankfort, Ky., June 11, 1868</div>
<div dir="auto">Hon. Bland Ballard:<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">As Reverend Lambert Young, the Catholic priest of this place, is now confined in jail at Louisville, charged with contempt of your court in declining to answer certain inquiries before the grand jury concerning the breaking the jail, and hanging a negro man in Frankfort last winter by a mob, I deem it due to Father Young, as well as to all concerned, to state the circumstances under which he went to the jail to endeavor to disperse the mob and prevent the black man from being hung. What effect these facts will have upon the question of privilege claimed by the priest will be for your honor to determine.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">About noon of the day preceding the hanging of the colored man, I learned that the Irish friends of the girl said to have been violated were mediating the violence, and that they would probably attempt to break the jail and hang him that night. I went to a number of the leading Irishmen of the city, and besought them to lend their aid in an effort to quell the mob spirit, so that the law might take its course. Quite a number of them promised to do so, and about supper time I began to think the effort had been successful.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">About 8 o’clock at night I saw persons gathering about the jail, and at once perceived that the crowd was no other than a mob collecting. to break the jail and hang the colored man, Jim Macklin.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">I at once determined to send for Father Young, and request him to use his priestly office and influence in an effort to disperse the mob. He boarded less than a square from my residence. I sent for him. He immediately came to my room. I told him that I was Commonwealth’s Attorney for the district I felt that my official duty compelled me to use every effort in my power to prevent the mob violence that was about to be perpetrated at the jail, and the last and only effort remaining in my judgement was to get him to go into the crowd, and in his capacity as priest to address the mob and dissuade them from the perpetration of the contemplated outrage. He at once consented to do so, and started from my house for that purpose. I feel assured that but for his priestly office he would have been permitted to enter the jail yard and address the infuriated mob.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Whether these facts are sufficient to exhonerate [sic] him from deposing as to whom or what he saw at the jail, is a matter about which I express no opinion, but merely wish to state the circumstances under which he went to the jail, being quite sure that he went there at my request, as a civil officer, for the sole purpose of using his priestly office and influence to disperse the mob, and thus preserve the life of the unfortunate colored man.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">I volunteer these statements in behalf of the priest, who is my personal friend, because he went to the jail to quell the mob at my request as a civil officer.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Very respectfully,<br /><br /></div>
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Frankfort, Franklin Co.
1865-1870
1868
Frankfort
Franklin County
Macklin
Micah Lynn
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Johnson and Washington, The New York Times, August 9, 1871
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Washington, Henry
Johnson, Harry
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"> Kentucky Elections</h3>
<p><strong>Rioting Reported in Various Places– Two Whites Killed in Frankfort– Negro Prisoners Lynched</strong></p>
<p>FRANKFORT, Ky., Aug. 8– A riot commenced here last evening after the closing of the polls. A short scuffle arose among several negroes, and two shots were fired. The police interfered, but were driven back, seventy or eighty shots being fired, and large stones and boulders thrown, etc. Two white men– Mr. William Gilmore and Mr. Bishop– were instantly killed, and three or four other white men wounded. Five or six negroes were wounded, but none killed. A crowd of negroes paraded the streets after the shooting. The State troops were ordered out, and still under arms. The Federal troops were not called out. Toward midnight there was considerable excitement in the city. Young Mr. Gilmore, who was killed during the disturbance, was a master mason, and was extremely popular in the city. The leader of the negro rioters was arrested. He has received several severe though not fatal wounds.</p>
<p>About 2 o’clock, before daylight had set in, a band of about 250 men, armed and wearing masks, went to jail and knocked violently at the entrance. On the jailer appearing they demanded his keys. Alarmed at the savage aspect of his visitors, he complied, and, on obtaining the keys, they immediately proceeded to the cell of a negro who was lying in prison under a charge of rape committed on a Mrs. Pfieffer. They seized him, and then went to another cell occupied by the negro who is said to have fired the first shot at the election riot last evening. Both prisoners were greatly terrified. The band then quitted the jail, taking both negroes with them. They hung them both at a spot only a few yards distant from the jail. When the affair became known, the greatest excitement followed. Young Mr. Gilmore, who was killed in the riot last night, will be sent to Lexington. The other white man, who was also killed, will be buried this evening.<br /><br />–<em>Evening News</em>.<br /><br /><strong>The Troubles in Frankfort, Ky.<br /><br /></strong>Louisville, Ky., Aug. 8-- About 2 this morning about two hundred armed and masked men went to the jail in Frankfort and demanded the keys. The State Guard, who had been on duty there, had gone as it was supposed; all disorder was over. The jailer was compelled to surrender the keys, and the men entered and took out the negro who committed the rape on Mrs. Pfiefferd a few days ago, and also the negro Washington, who was said to be the one who fired the first shot in the riot there yesterday, in which two white men were killed. The negroes were taken about a half mile from the jail and hanged. Great excitement prevails in the community in consequence of the turbulent scenes yesterday evening and the lynching outrage this morning. No further violence is anticipated, however.</p>
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1870-1880
1871
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Franklin County
Johnson
Micah Lynn
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Maxey, Lexington Herald-Leader, June 5, 1909
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Maxey, John
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"> Lynching Denounced</h3>
<p><strong>In Bishop Penick’s Resolution, But It Is Tabled At Frankfort– He Stated That all Male Citizens in Frankfort Were Placed Under Suspicion by Murder of John Maxey.</strong></p>
<p>Frankfort, Ky., June 5– The Citizens’ Improvement Association, consisting of the ministers, society women and other leaders of Frankfort Friday night, in meeting assembled, laid on the table by a decisive vote a resolution denouncing the lynching of John Maxey in this city Thursday morning. More objective was made against the wording of the resolution than to the idea of denouncing the lynching.</p>
<p>Bishop C.C. Penick, record of the Episcopal Church here, an old Confederate soldier, a former missionary to Africa, arose toward the close of the meeting and said the time had come to “do something.”</p>
<p>“I have a resolution here,” he said, “which I desire to offer,” and it follows:</p>
<p>“Whereas, By the lynching of the Negro, John Maxey, in the city of Frankfort, on the morning of June 3, the lynchers have placed all of our male citizens under more or less suspicion of being murderers or conniving at murder, for thereby a useless and lawless murder was committed in this, the capital city of Kentucky, and whereas, we, who claim to be good loyal and bloodless citizens of the Commonwealth, claim our right and duty to defend our names and character against such a terrible accusation as the perpetrators of this lawless deed laid us liable to;</p>
<p>“Therefore, we, the members of the Citizens’ Improvement Association and together for betterment and righteousness, disclaim and pronounce against this murder with a deep sense of the sham it brings upon us and of the crime committed.”</p>
<p>Judge Ira Julian moved that the phraseology of the resolution should be changed, for, he said, he did not believe any one thought the good citizens of Frankfort had anything to do with the mob.</p>
<p>Judge James H. Hazelrigg, former Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals moved to table the motion.</p>
<p>“In suggesting a postponement of action of this resolution,” said Judge Hazelrigg, “I want to suggest, that in the most emphatic terms, all commissions of crime, especially the dastardly murder recently committed in our midst, referred to in the resolution, meet the unqualified condemnation of the meeting.</p>
<p>“But, Mr. Chairman, to admit by these resolutions that this body of workers for the uplift of our citizenship feels called upon to avert a suspicion that, without the resolution we are to be classed with those condoning or approving such a crime, or were participants in, it seems to me, at present, unnecessary.”</p>
<p>The motion to table the resolution was then seconded and, when out to a vote, was carried by a large majority.</p>
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Frankfort, Franklin County
1900-1910
1909
Frankfort
Franklin County
Micah Lynn
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Maxey, Lexington Herald-Leader, June 4, 1909
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Nothing Likely to Be Done</h3>
<p><strong>About the Lynching of John Maxey, a Negro, By a Mob at Frankfort Thursday– Governor Willson Denounces Work of the Masked Gang, But the State is Powerless– Those Who Took Part in the Affair Are Believed to Have Been Composed of Young Men, But all Who Profess to Know Anything of the Affair, Say They Were Present as Spectators– One Man Shot in the Leg– No Inquest Held Over Body.</strong></p>
<p>Frankfort, Ky., June 4– No steps have been taken by any officials of the county to bring to justice the members of the mob which lynched John Maxey, a Negro, here Thursday morning. No application will be made to the Governor for the offering of a reward for the capture and conviction of members of the mob and it is very probable that nothing will ever be done.</p>
<p>Governor Wilson issued a statement Thursday afternoon in which he said that he stood ready to offer a reward and do anything in his power to bring to justice the men who participated in the lynching. He denounced the crime and the men who were guilty.</p>
<p>Governor Willson’s statement was as follows:</p>
<p>“Between 1 and 2 o’clock last night, Governor Willson was wakes up by a telephone call and informed that a reporter in the office of the Kentucky State Journal wished to say to him that a Negro had been hung on the bridge in Frankfort, Ky., and wished to know whether he had anything to say about it. The Governor had heard nothing of the shooting affray which preceded this and knew nothing of the case, and thinking that the legal authorities, charged by law with the prosecution of crimes, should take the proper action, and that the Governor had no authority over the matter matter or over their action, except to offer a reward when applied for according to law, answered that he knew nothing of the case and had nothing to do with it at that time, and not knowing did not wish to say anything about it then.</p>
<p>“The duty of arresting and prosecuting those guilty of this crime is not reposed in the Governor by our law, and he has no control whatever over the police or court or prosecuting officers, but he is authorized by law to offer a reward for the apprehension and conviction of those guilty.</p>
<p>“The Governor, in speaking of the matter, said that there was no excuse, much less justification, for the crime of murdering this young Negro. If he had committed a crime there was absolutely certainty that the law would punish him in the proper way and at the proper time, with no possible chance to escape punishment. A mob took the law into their own hands, and murdered this young Negro. Every person who took part in it is guilty of the crime of a wicked, cowardly murder, with no legal defense if he did take part in it, and with no possible excuse, and the Governor will uphold the officers of the law in the prosecution of every person guilty of it, and will do all in his power to aid, encourage and extort the officers of the law to punish this crime and uphold the law and the honor of the State.</p>
<p>“The Governor stated that if he had any warning of intimation of any kind of the shooting of the white man by the Negro, or anything that indicated any danger of a mob, effective measures would have been taken to prevent it.</p>
<p>“There is no law or custom which subjects the Governor to being called up at midnight to express his views on a case about which he has no knowledge, but the reporter demanded such an expression, and the Governor felt that it was improper to say anything about a case of which he knew nothing except the bare statement that a man had been lynched, lest it be taken as a reflection upon the authorities who were entitled to confidence in their doing their duty.”</p>
<p>The mob, which, it is said, was composed of the young men of Frankfort, many of them whom probably never had a revolver in their hand before, took John Maxey, a Negro with a bad record, from the county jail about 2:30 o’clock Thursday morning and hanged him from one of the large girders supporting the St. Clair street bridge, shooting him to death after they had forced him to climb up the girders to his death.</p>
<p>R.J. Weindel, a well-known young man, who is in charge of a dry goods store in Frankfort, was shot in the leg by the accidental discharge of a revolver after the lynching. Weindel narrowly escaped bleeding to death before a physician could be secured to stop the flow of blood. He went to the bridge, attracted by the lynching, when a revolver was dropped and went off. The bullet struck Weindel in the left leg, near the ankle, and ranged upward.</p>
<p>No inquest was held over the body of Maxey. Lyman Graham, the Coroner, did not feel it necessary to hold an inquest, he being cognizant of the manner of the death of the Negro. He returned a verdict that Maxaw [<em>sic</em>] came to his death by hanging on the bridge, at the hands of unknown persons. The body was taken down shortly after the mob dispersed and is now at the undertaking shop of Graham, where it is being held for the members of the family, if there are any. </p>
<p>Two attempts were made to hang Maxey but the rope broke the first time. The Negro was taken onto the bridge, the rope, which was a weak one, was placed around his neck and the other end run over a beam at the top of the superstructure. The Negro, pleading with the mob for his life, was swung up, but the rope broke and he dropped to the bridge. His hands had been tied behind his band with a piece of cord and he lay inert after his fall, moaning feebly.</p>
<p>Cries and advice of all kinds came from the crowd around the Negro. One sugestion [<em>sic]</em> was that he be thrown into the river and given a chance to escape if he could. There were also cries of “Shoot him” and other cries of “Hang him!” The mob leaders fastened the rope around Maxey’s neck a second time and to prevent the rope breaking again ordered the Negro to climb the iron girder. He obeyed and climbed up for a few feet, the men who held the rope giving him slack enough to permit him to climb. The main body of the mob, numbering, according to the best information, some two hundred, lined upon the west side of the bridge, the real lynchers being on the east side.</p>
<p>After Maxey had climbed up the girder several feet the rope was drawn tight and the Negro cried out “Lord have mercy on me.” Several members of the mob, it is presumed, then pushed the Negro loose from the girder to which he was clinging with his feet and the mob began shooting at him. About thirty shots were fired, but only four hit the Negro, one going through his heart. The body hung there after the dispersal of the mob until the coroner arrived when it was taken down. The rope was not cut but simply untied from the beam and the body lowered to the floor of the bridge and placed in the undertaker’s basket.</p>
<p>Mr. Weindel said Thursday morning that he was attracted to the bridge by the excitement and was mingling with the crowd when someone dropped a revolver. He felt a pain in his left leg and blood began to run down into his shoe. He sat down on the abutment of the bridge and removed his shoe and sick. He was bleeding freely, and someone, he does not know who, picked him up and carried him to the Jeffer’s House, where he was put to bed and received medical attention from Dr. Hill. The injured man was removed to his home this morning. The bullet is still in his leg, but no serious results from the wound are anticipated.</p>
<p>It is stated by those who were up at the time of the lynching that the circus had left Frankfort at the time of the hanging and that none of the circus men were in the mob. Only those who went to the jail, it is said, wore masks.</p>
<p>But little resistance was offered, the mob at the jail Thursday morning. About a dozen men, all masked, went to the jail and knocked on the door. The jailer was asleep, not having had any warning that a mob was forming. Although there had been talk of a mob earlier in the night but little attention was paid to it. Jailer Bridges went to bed about 10 o’clock. When he was awakened by the pounding on the door, he looked out the window and asked what was wanted. He was told to come down at once. He went, thinking that some one had a prisoner for him. As soon as he stepped outside he was seized by several men, who held him securely. The keys to the jail were in his coat pocket and they were taken by a member of the mob. While several men held Bridges, the others entered the jail. The [<em>sic</em>] found Maxey in the corridor, on a cot. He was undressed and had been asleep. He was seized, his hands bound and the mob then started for the bridge, joining the large body of lynchers who had remained in the street. The march to the jail was made silently and there was but little confusion after Maxey had been secured and the mob had begun the march toward the bridge.</p>
<p>Maxey had a bad record. He had been convicted of several thefts and was known to the police as a bad Negro. He was drunk and disorderly all day Wednesday, trying to pick a quarrel several times on the circus grounds during the afternoon. </p>
<p>Bowers, the man who was shot during the process of the Howe circus Wednesday night, and whose shooting caused the lynching, probably will get well. It was found that the bullet did not penetrate the intestinal cavity and the wound is not now regarded as a serious one. He probably will be out of the hospital in two weeks or so. The Elks lodge at Valdosta, Ga., where Bowers is a member, Thursday telegraphed your the local lodge of Elks to care for him and do anything that is needed.</p>
<p>It is probable that the next grand jury will investigate the lynching, but it is improbable that anything will be done, as it will be hard to get evidence to prove the guilt of any one who connected with the mob, Those who profess to know anything about the lynching Thursday say there were there merely as spectators.</p>
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Frankfort, Franklin County
1900-1910
1909
Frankfort
Franklin County
Maxey
Micah Lynn
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Maxey, Lexington Herald-Leader, June 3, 1909
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"> Lynched on Capital Bridge</h3>
<p><strong>Mob at Frankfort Hangs John Maxey And Then Riddles His Body With Bullets– Victim Had Fatally Shot Bert Bowers, Of Kansas, A Director Howe Circus– Lexington Detectives Save Man From Probable Death Earlier in the Night, But Later Masked Men Overpower Jailer Bridges, Take His Prisoner to Viaduct Over River and String Him Up.</strong></p>
<p>Frankfort, Ky., June 3– A mob of seventy-five masked and armed men overpowered Jailer Bridges at 2:30 o’clock this morning, took a Negro prisoner from the Franklin county jail and under the glare of the electric lights, hanged him from the bridge over the Kentucky river.</p>
<p>The Negro was John Maxey, who shot and perhaps fatally wounded Bert Bowers, one of the directors of the Howe Shows, which exhibited here yesterday.</p>
<p>The mob, which was orderly and determined, appeared in the vicinity of the jail without any previous intimation of its coming. While the main body waited about the jail where the prisoner was confined, a committee of about a dozen called for Jailer Bridges, saying they wanted to speak with him. Not suspecting their intent, Jailer Bridges came out and was quickly told by the members of the mob to surrender the keys to the jail as they wanted Maxey, the Negro who had shot Showman Bowers.</p>
<p>Jailer Bridges refused to give up the keys, and the leader signaling his followers, they speedily overpowered the jailer, and searched his clothing, securing the keys, and bringing out the culprit, who begged piteously for his life. His appeals however, fell on deaf ears, for he was marched down St. Clair street until the Kentucky river bridge was reached.<br /><br /></p>
<p>Here a rope was produced and he was swung up to a cross arm of the overhead bridge work. An iron column of the bridge was so close to the suspended Negro, that he grabbed hold of it several times.</p>
<p>To shorten the work the lynchers then fired a volley into the dangling form, which ended the agony of the victim. The work of the mob was done so quickly and determinedly that within fifteen minutes after Jailer Bridges was called out of bed, Maxey was a corpse and lynchers had dispersed before even the police had time to reach the scene.</p>
<p>None of the members of the mob were recognized.</p>
<p>Shortly after the mob had gone, the police aroused by the volley of shots which had ended the life of the Negro, hurried to the scene only to find a dead body swinging from the bridge. The Coroner was notified and a few minutes afterward the body was cut down by his directions and taken to an undertaker’s establishment.</p>
<p>Hundreds of persons passed over the bridge this morning from South Frankfort past the very spot where the lynching took place, without knowing what had been done there by the mob a few hours before, as there were no grewsome [<em>sic</em>] signs left to tell the tale.</p>
<p>It is probable that Maxey would have been lynched earlier in the night had it not been for the intervention of Chief of Detectives Malcolm Brown and Detectives Dudley Veal and Thomas Donlan, who happened to be in Frankfort and who rescued Maxey after a fierce fight, from a crowd of showmen who had taken his trail after the shooting of Showman Bowers.</p>
<p>The shooting was nothing short of a desperate attempt on the part of Maxey to assassinate Showman Bert C. Bowers of Wichita, Kansas.</p>
<p>Bowers is one of the directors of the Howe Shows. While walking through the lot from one tent to another he saw the Negro ripping the tent of the main show. He told the Negro to stop and went to get a policeman to arrest him.</p>
<p>When he returned Maxie raised a revolver he was carrying and fired on him four times, one bullet penetrating his abdomen. The surgeons do not know yet whether the wound is fatal. Bowers is an Elk and is in the hands of the Elks in this city, and will be well cared for.</p>
<p>After shoot [<em>sic</em>] Bowers, the Negro ran toward a hill, but was pursued by a lot of Negro employes of the show. Maxey was hit in the head with a stake and dazed. When the employes caught him, they put a rope around his neck and he would have been hanged to the limb of a tree in ten seconds, but for Chief Brown and detectives Veal and Donlan, who ran in and after a fierce fight with the showmen rescued Maxie, who was later hurried to the county jail. Maxey was an ex-convict and a desperate Negro. He was shot in the neck by Policeman Johnson, during the pursuit, but not seriously injured.</p>
<p>Showman Bowers was operated upon at a local hospital, and while the full extent of his injuries are not known yet, his condition is regarded as precarious. There is no apparent excitement here this morning as a result of the lynching of Maxey, but hundreds of people visited the river bridge to view the scene of the mob’s work.</p>
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Lexington Herald-Leader
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1909-06-03
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Frankfort, Franklin County
1900-1910
1909
Frankfort
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Micah Lynn
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Boston, The Frankfort Roundabout, August 18, 1894
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Boston, Marshall
Mob, hanging
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<p><strong>A Negro Rapist Pays The Penalty Of His Crime– Hung Upon The Bridge At Midnight– By a Mob of Five Hundred Men</strong></p>
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<p>The people of this city and county took the law into their own hands Tuesday night and executed swift justice upon the perpetrator of the most revolting of crimes– rape. The victim of the crime was a white woman and the criminal a brutal negro ex-convict. The circumstances connected with the terrible deed are as follows:</p>
<p>Mrs. Martin Nolan, who lives in Choateville, about two miles from the city on the Devil’s Hollow Pike, walked down to the city Tuesday morning to do some marketing and on her way home was met on the road where a ravine comes down from Mrs. Williams’ place into Devil’s Hollow, by a negro man who first demanded money of her and when told that she had none, seized and dragged her into the ravine, where he choked her until able to accomplish his purpose and then left her, coming toward this city. The poor woman, with her clothing nearly all torn off her, went on home, and on the way told a neighbor what had happened. A messenger was sent into this city and immediately an armed posse started out in search of the negro. She described him as being a tall yellow man who had on a well worn black derby hat grey blue pants and striped shirt. She described him as being a tall yellow man who had on a well worn black derby hat, grey-blue pants and striped shirt.</p>
<p>While the searching party were still out Judge B.G. Williams was returning from dinner on a street car and saw Marshall Boston, a negro, standing at the corner of Shelby and Campbell streets, who had scratches upon his hands and answered the description given by Mrs. Nolan. Getting off of the car Judge Williams went back and talked to the man, who did not tell a very straight story of his whereabouts during the forenoon, and calling Mr. Sam. A. Parrent to his assistance, took the negro in charge and brought him over to his office. After questioning him further the Judge concluded to send Boston out for Mrs. Nolan to say whether he was the man who had assaulted her or not. Accordingly he was placed in a vehicle under guard and driven out to her home. Judge Williams got in his buggy, drove on in advance and prepared Mrs. Nolan for the coming of the negro, cautioning her to be very careful in what she said when she saw him, as the man’s life depended upon her words. As soon as she laid eyes upon Boston her identification was complete, even to making him open his mouth and expose a long eye tooth, upon which she had struck him, causing the gum to bleed. Those who were present would have taken the negro and hung him then and there, but Judge Williams argued them into desisting, stating that the man was in the hands of the law and it should be allowed to deal with him. Mr. Nolan was absent with a party searching for the negro along the railroad or Boston doubtless would have never left the place alive, but as it was he was brought back to the city and lodged in jail.</p>
<p>Further search was made for evidence against the negro, when the pants he had worn that morning were found at his home covered with green burs, similar to those found upon the clothing of Mrs. Nolan, and an examination of the spot where the outrage was committed revealed the fact that the burs grew plentifully there. This evidence substantiating the statement of Mrs. Nolan, excitement ran at fever heat. Large crowds gathered on the streets in the early evening, and it being evident that a mob would undertake to hang the negro, Sheriff Armstong summoned a posse to guard the jail and the Mayor ordered the police to disperse the crowds, in which they were only partially successful, for just as the town clock was striking 11 a crowd numbering several hundred rushed out of Catfish Alley into Main Street and down St. Clair to the Court House. In a few seconds they had overpowered the sheriff and his guards, gotten possession of the keys to the inner doors of the jail, but those to the heavy doors were in possession of Jailer Williams, who would not surrender them, and with sledges and crowbars the doors were broken from their fastenings, eight men went in and brought Boston from his cell, when with a shout he was hurried to the St. Clair street bridge and strung up to one of the heavy overhead cross beams. After he was dead about one hundred shots were fired into his body and the mob dispersed.<br /><br />About 2 o’clock Wednesday Chief of Police Tobin had the body cut down and taken to the Court House where an inquest was held by Coroner Dehoney later in the day, the jury returning a verdict that Boston came to his death by hanging at the hands of parties unknown to the jury.</p>
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The Frankfort Roundabout
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1894-08-18
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Micah Lynn
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Choateville; Frankfort, Franklin County
1890-1900
1894
Boston
Choateville
Frankfort
Franklin County
Micah Lynn
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