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Traughber Lynching. Jury Failed to Agree--Four Were Defendants. Special to The Republic. Clarksville, Tenn., Fe. 22--The highly sensational trial of William Proctor, F. P. Apgar, Moses Cook, Jr. and Robert Henderson for the lynching of Edwin…

Edwin Traughber Murder. Prominent Kentuckians Said to Be Guilty of the Crime. Special to the Republic. Clarksville, Tenn., Sept. 27.--Much excitement is reported from Adairville, Southern Kentucky, 35 miles from here, since the convening of the…

HANGED BY A MOB. Geo. Scott Answers for his Crime to Judge Lynch Approached and Threatened Mrs. Scroggins—Had Planned to Assault and Kill Her. AN ACCOUNT BY AN EVANSVILLE PAPER Russellville was again the scene of a lynching Saturday night. The…

Saturday night a mob took George Scott, colored, from the jail in Russellville and hung him to a tree in the suburbs. The mob was composed of about forty persons most of whom were boys, and but few were disguised. The jailor did not recognize any…

Lynching Probable. Nashville, Tenn., June 3.—George Scott, a young colored man, is in jail at Springfield, Tenn., charged with attempting criminal assault on Mrs. William Scoggins, wife of a well-to-do farmer living just across the line, in Logan…

Lynched at Russellville. RUSSELLVILLE, KY., June 26.—Last night a mob took George Scott, colored, from the county jail and hanged him to a tree in the southern suburbs of town. The gallows-tree was the same from which Dink and Arch Proctor were…

TO A TREE George Scott, Colored, Was Hanged By a Mob IN RUSSELLVILLE SUBURBS WAS IN AIL FOR AN ATTEMPT TO ASSAULT CRIMINALLY LYNCHING A QUIET AFFAIR Russellville, Ky., June 26.—[Special.]—Last midnight a mob took George Scott, colored, from the…

LYNCHED By a Determined Mob Was George Scott, the Colored Assailant of a White Woman SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER RUSSELLSVILLE, KY., June 26.—George Scott, a negro, was hanged by a mob here this morning at 1 o’clock. The mob overpowered…

SPIRITED HIM AWAY. Charged With Attempted Assault, a Negro is Hidden by Officers. SPRINGFIELD, June 2.—(Special.)—The community around Adairville, in Logan County, Ky., is greatly wrought up over an attempted assault upon Mrs. William Scoggins, by…