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Six men took Wick Willis from the jail at Lebanon and hung him. He was accused of attempting to rape Miss Dice in Adair county and was in the Lebanon jail to keep a mob from getting him.

His Neck Cracked A Negro Ravisher Hanged to a Tree Near Champbellsville.------------------------ The Marion County Jailer Overpower And The Brute Quietly Taken Out.---------------------- He Was Started Back To The Scene of the Crime, but…

Lynched At Day A Black Devil Hanged To a Tree Near Campbellsville.----------------------Taken From the Lebanon Jail By An Adair County Mob.---------------------His Crime the Attempted Outrage of a Helpless Young Woman.…

Wick Willis, col., was lynched by a mob at Campbellsville, Kentucky., in Adair county, Monday night for an attempted outrage upon Miss Dice, a young white woman. The mob consisted of only six men and the jailer gave up the prisioner [sic] without…

VENGEANCE Meted Out to Negro By Hickman Mob. -------------------- DRAGGED FROM JAIL TO RIVER. ------------------- ROCK TIED TO HIS BODY AND THROWN INTO WATER. ------------------ ASSAULT ON GIRL CHARGED. ----------------- Hickman,…