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Sarver, New York Times, March 8, 1882
HANGED BY A MOB.
A NEGRO LYNCHED IN TENNESSEE FOR AN ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 7.—Bob Sarver, who attempted to outrage the person of Miss Tennie Ruby, near Franklin, Ky., last Friday, was taken from his guards while they were…
Sarver, Paris Bourbon News, March 10, 1882
One hundred masked men took Bob Sarvers, a colored man who attempted to outrage a young Miss of fifteen, from a train near Franklin, and hung him.
Taylor and Hicks, Semi-Weekly South Kentuckian, May 29, 1885.
Lynched for Arson