Colbert, Henry Charged, attempted robbery and attempted rape Mob
Hired to Assail a Woman. HICKMAN, Ky., June 12–Three months ago two negroes, Henry Colbert and Pete Hunt, made an assault on Mrs, Lizzie Pratcher. East of here. The men were arrested, and confessed that they had been hired by Hugh Wood, a white man, to commit the deed. Last night masked men forcibly took Colbert from the jail, set him on a horse, took him away and hanged him.
Clifford, Stanford Interior Journal, August 20, 1907
Charge, rape and murder of a 50-56 year-old married White woman
Will Clifford, a Negro, who confessed that he assaulted Mrs. Mary Cowan and threw her body into to the river, and that he had killed another white woman a year ago, was lynched by a mob at Maple, this State. Clifford was arrested at Tiptonville, Tenn.
Documenting Racial Violence in Kentucky, Clifford
Mabel, Hickman County, Tiptonville (Tn.), Lake County (Tn.)
Clifford, Maysville Public Ledger, August 19, 1907
Clifford, Union City Commercial Courier, August 23, 1907
The Commercial Courier [Union City, Tn.]