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Brown, Lancaster Central Record, February 13, 1902
Prompt and Just Punishment.
Last week, a negro assaulted Miss Della Powell, a prominent young lady, near her home in Jessamine county, dragging her from a buggy on the public highway, just before dark. The negro was taken to jail, and next morning…
Brown, Lancaster Central Record, February 13, 1902
Prompt and Just Punishment.
Last week, a negro assaulted Miss Della Powell, a prominent young lady, near her home in Jessamine county, dragging her from a buggy on the public highway, just before dark. The negro was taken to jail, and next morning…
Brown, Leavenworth Chronicle Tribune, February 6, 1902
WAS CAPTURED THIS MORNING
Brown Attacked Girl In Secluded Road as She Was Returning From School–Girl Is But Fifteen Years Old.
Scripps-McRae Telegram
NICHOLASVILER, Ky., Feb. 6. – Tom Brown, a negro was lynched here at noon today by an…
Brown, Lexington Herald, February 6, 1902
TERRIBLE CRIME NEAR NICHOLASVILLE
GIRL RETURNING FROM LEXINGTON WAS DRAGGED FROM HER CONVEYANCE BY A BRUTAL NEGRO.
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky., Feb. 5. – (Special) – The entire community was aroused tonight when it was heard that Miss Della Powelll, the…
Brown, Lexington Morning Herald, February 7, 1902
LYNCHED IN NICHOLASVILLE AT HIGH NOON
NEGRO WHO COMMITTEE DREADFUL CRIME HANGED FROM TREE IN COURT HOUSE YARD BY A MOB.
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky., Feb. 6. – (Associated Press.) – Tom Brown, the negro arrested last night charged with criminally assaulting…
Brown, Los Angeles Herald, February 6, 1902
Kentucky Mob Lynches Negro
Takes Him From Officers and Hangs Him to Tree– The Man Had Assaulted a White Girl, Miss Delia Powell, and Being Fully Identified By Her, Was Swiftly Punished for His Awful Crime
Nicholasville, Ky., Feb. 6– Tom Brown, the…
Brown, Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1902
TOM BROWN SWINGS.
Negro Allowed to Live Until Identified by Victim and Then Lynched in the Courthouse Yard.
BY THE NEW ASSOCIATED PRESS–P.M.
NICHOLLASVILLE (Ky.) Feb. 6. – Tom Brown, the negro who assaulted Miss Della Powell yesterday, was taken…
Brown, Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, February 7, 1902
Lynched
Negro Who Ravished Miss Power in Jessamine County– Took Him from the Officers and Strung Him Up– The Girl Earnestly Begged That He Be Not Hanged Near Her Home
Fully Identified By His VictimNicholasville, Ky., Feb. 6– Tom Brown, the negro…
Brown, The Paducah Sun, February 6, 1902
Lynched in Daytime
Tom Brown, Identified as a Ravisher, Hanged at Jail Door
Nicholasville, Ky., Feb. 6– Tom Brown, colored, was taken from the officers at the jail door this afternoon at one o’clock and lynched in the court house yard in the…