Colson & Smith, St. Louis Globe Democrat, July 3, 1895
subject: Colson, Abithal Colson, Bithael
subject: Smith, Maude Smith, Mollie
subject: Charge, murder of two White men, farmers
subject: Mob, unknown number
subject: Mob, riddled with buckshot
description: Details of the Trigg (Ky.) Tragedy. Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat. HOPKINSVILLE, KY., July 2.—Additional details have been received here of the tragedy enacted in Trigg County Saturday evening, which resulted in the killing of three persons at the time and the mortal wounding of John Rhodes, who died yesterday. Colston and the woman, whose name was Maud Smith, were not killed by Frank Jameson, the farmer, near whose house they met their death, as first reported, but by a party of armed men, led by two of Rhodes’ brothers, who had been on Colston’s track ever since the difficulty began earlier in the day. The bitter feeling that led to the tragedy grew out of threats of revenge that Colston, who had lately been released from serving a seven-year term in the Penitentiary for horse-stealing, had made against the men he believed had helped to send him to jail, Hammond and Rhodes being among the number. He had notified several other men of his intention to kill them. There are fears that other tragedies may follow those of Saturday, which have engendered much bad blood among the adherents of the Colston and Rhodes factions, which are composed of many determined persons residing in Western Trigg, between the rivers. <path fill="#e3d881" d="M168 218.4C128.4 218.4 88.8 241.2 49.2 286.8 94.8 247.2 117.6 207.6 117.6 168 117.6 128.4 94.8 88.8 49.2 49.2 88.8 94.8 128.4 117.6 168 117.6 207.6 117.6 247.2 94.8 286.8 49.2 241.2 88.8 218.4 128.4 218.4 168 218.4 207.6 241.2 247.2 286.8 286.8 247.2 241.2 207.6 218.4 168 218.4Z" transform="rotate(45 168 168)"></path> <path fill="#e6d65e" d="M168 226.8C128.4 226.8 88.8 246.8 49.2 286.8 89.2 247.2 109.2 207.6 109.2 168 109.2 128.4 89.2 88.8 49.2 49.2 88.8 89.2 128.4 109.2 168 109.2 207.6 109.2 247.2 89.2 286.8 49.2 246.8 88.8 226.8 128.4 226.8 168 226.8 207.6 246.8 247.2 286.8 286.8 247.2 246.8 207.6 226.8 168 226.8Z" transform="rotate(45 168 168)"></path> <path fill="#f8ffc4" d="M134.3 241C102.7 241 71.2 236.9 39.7 228.6 31.4 1…
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publisher: St. Louis Globe-Democrat, [St. Louis, Mo.]
date: 1895-07-03
contributor: Kailly Oum
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Colson & Smith, Louisville Courier Journal, July 2, 1895
subject: Colson, Abithal Colson, Bithael
subject: Smith, Maude Smith, Mollie
subject: Charge, murder of two White men, farmers
subject: Mob, unknown number
subject: Mob, riddled with buckshot
description: SHOT-RIDDLED. Four Alleged Bad Characters Brought to Earth. TRIGG COUNTY TRAGEDY. The Bloody Affair Started By An Ex-Convict. Prospect for Lively Times in Carter County. THE RAILROAD TAX AGAIN. Hopkinsville, Ky., July 1—(Special.)—News reached here to-day of the murder of four persons last Friday in a remote section of Trigg county. All are said to have been very undesirable citizens and among the better class of people there is little mourning over their removal. It seems that several years ago one Abitahl Colston was sentenced to the penitentiary for horse stealing and that among the witnesses against him were four brothers named Rhodes. Colston swore that when released from prison he would kill some one for helping to send him up, and when his term expired a few days since, he began looking up the Rhodes boys.The first one he met was John Rhodes on Friday afternoon, and after a few words he shot and instantly killed Rhodes. Leaving his body in the road, he moved on and soon came upon Ab Rhodes and “Chat” Hammond at a well. Hammond was in the act of hanging Rhodes a cup of water and this so frenzied Colston that he forgot his feeling toward Rhodes and shot and killed Hammond. Evidently little affected by his crime, he proceeded on to the cabin of his mistress, one Mollie Smith, and the next morning the bodies of Colston and the woman were found stiff and cold and riddled with shot. There was a great deal of excitement over the murder of Rhodes and Hammond and it has not been found whether Colston and the Smith woman were killed by the Rhodes boys or their friends. <path fill="#e6d65e" d="M168 226.8C128.4 226.8 88.8 246.8 49.2 286.8 89.2 247.2 109.2 207.6 109.2 168 109.2 128.4 89.2 88.8 49.2 49.2 88.8 89.2 128.4 109.2 168 109.2 207.6 109.2 247.2 89.2 286.8 49.2 246.8 88.8 226.8 128.4 226.8 168 226.8 207.6 246.8 247.2 286.8 286.8 247.2 246.8 207.6 226.8 168 226.8Z" transform="rotate(45 168 168)"></path> <path fill="#ffe940" d="M168 260.4C128.4 260.4 88.8 269.2 49.2 …
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publisher: The Courier-Journal [Louisville, Kentucky]
date: 1895-07-02
contributor: Kailly Oum
relation: Documenting
format: Image
coverage: Trigg County, Higgins Landing, Cadiz

Colson & Smith, Wilmington Morning News, July 3, 1895
subject: Colson, Abithal Colson, Bithael
subject: Smith, Maude Smith, Mollie
subject: Charge, murder of two White men, farmers
subject: Mob, unknown number
subject: Mob, riddled with buckshot
description: FOUR PEOPLE SLAIN Result of a Row Caused by a Kentucky Desperado. HIMSELF WAS ONE OF THOSE KILLED Abithah Colston Shot Down One Man and Then Another Who Was Bringing the First a Drink of Water—Lynchers Then Killed the Murderer and a Woman. LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 2.—Four lives is what a row cost in Trigg county on last Saturday evening, near a place called Higgins Landing. The fatalities were caused by Abithah Colston, an ex-convict and desperado, who was himself one of the victims. He had recently been released from the penitentiary, where he had served seven years for killing a farmer, John Crump, on the edge of the Tennessee and Kentucky line. Colston was a quarrelsome man, and soon after his return was involved in rows with the neighbors. On Saturday afternoon he appeared at Higgins Landing armed with a double-barrelled shotgun. John Rhodes, who had before incurred the ill will of Colston, came up in time to be used as a mark for the ex-convict’s abuse. They quarrelled [sic] and then began fighting. Rhodes was getting the better of the rough-and-tumble match, and Colston finally broke away, snatched up the gun, and shot his antagonist down. The wound was fatal, and Rhodes fell to the ground. Colston went to a saloon near by, but returned in a few minutes, and was greatly enraged to find Chat Hammond bringing a drink to his victim, who was still alive and begging for water. Hammond was a friend of Rhodes, and angrily threatened the ex-convict with arrest and hanging. Colston did not reply, but finally raised his gun and fired at a short range. Hammond was killed instantly. A dozen men had come up, but had not foreseen the second tragedy. They were unarmed, and Colston threatened to kill the first man who should molest him, and backed off slowly till he got to a safe place, and then broke into a run and escaped. He went only a short distance away to the house of Molly Smith, a woman of ill-repute. She persuaded him to go with her, and the two went to the house of a …
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publisher: The Morning News [Wilmington, Delaware]
date: 1895-07-03
contributor: Kailly Oum
format: Image
coverage: Trigg County, Higgins Landing, Cadiz

Colson & Smith, Maysville Public Ledger, July 6, 1895
subject: Colson, Abithal Colson, Bithael
subject: Smith, Maude Smith, Mollie
subject: Charge, murder of two White men, farmers
subject: Mob, unknown number
subject: Mob, riddled with buckshot
description: GAVE THEMSELVES UP. The Slayers of Colston Claim to Have Acted in Self-Defense. Hopkinsville, Ky., July 6.—The latest information received from the scene of the Trigg county tragedy, which resulted in the death of four persons, was to the effect that the persons who killed Beth Colston and Maude Smith had gone into Cadiz, the county seat, Thursday, and had given themselves up to the officers of the law and been taken to jail to await their examining trials, which are set for Monday. Their plea will be that the killings were done in self-defense, as they were trying to arrest Colston for the murder of Hammond and the fatal wounding of John Rhodes. Two of Rhodes’ brothers, whom Colston had threatened to kill, led the party. So intense is the feeling of the public towards the Colston faction that the slayers of their leader and the woman will be acquitted without even the formalities of an examining trial. There are fears of serious troubles when their cases are called.
source: Newspapers.com
publisher: The Public Ledger [Maysville, Ky.]
date: 1895-07-06
contributor: Kailly Oum
format: Image
coverage: Trigg County, Higgins Landing, Cadiz

Colson & Smith, Owensboro Twice-A-Week Messenger, July 3, 1895
subject: Colson, Abithal Colson, Bithael
subject: Smith, Maude Smith, Mollie
subject: Charge, murder of two White men, farmers
subject: Mob, unknown number
subject: Mob, riddled with buckshot
description: FOUR OF THEM DEAD. A Bad Man in Trigg County Goes Killing and Then Gets Killed Along with a Notorious Woman Who accompanied Him in His Devilment. A Ghastly Story from Western Kentucky That Reads Somewhat Like a Tale of the Mountains. OTHER STATE NEWS OF INTEREST. Hopkinsville, Ky., July 1.—News has just reached here of a terrible tragedy in Trigg county, late Saturday evening. Frank Colston, a desperado, residing in that county, had a difficulty with and shot and severely wounded John Rhodes a farmer of this neighborhood. Another farmer named Hammond, who was present, and who was a friend of Rhodes, attempted to assist Rhodes. Colston then shot and instantly killed Hammond before he could render any assistance to his wounded friend. For some reason Colston, after wounding Rhodes, did not shoot him again, probably thinking him already dead. Colston did not attempt to escape, nor did any one attempt to arrest him, but he went on where he was going when the difficulty was begun. A few hours later Colston, in company with a prostitute, went to the house of another farmer. The farmer ordered the desperado and the woman to leave his place. They refused to do so and attacked the farmer, who, securing a weapon, succeeded in killing both Colston and the woman. Later information gives the following version of the story: Colston had just been released from the penitentiary for horse stealing and at once went gunning for the witnesses against him. He shot and killed John Rhodes and Chat Hammond. He then went to the house of his mistress, Mollie Smith, and next morning Colston and the Smith woman were found in the road, riddled with bullets, presumably by friends of the dead men. All were tough characters.
source: Newspapers.com
publisher: The Twice-A-Week Messenger [Owensboro, Ky.]
date: 1895-07-03
contributor: Kailly Oum
format: Image
coverage: Trigg County, Higgins Landing, Cadiz

Weaver, Louisville Courier Journal, April 10, 1908
subject: Weaver, Tom
subject: Mob, whipping
subject: Mob, shooting
subject: Mob, Night Riders
description: ANOTHER VICTIM DEAD. Injuries Inflicted By Night Riders Fatal. Hopkinsville, Ky., April 9. – [Special.] – Another murder is laid at the door of the night riders by the death of Tom Weaver at Canton, in Trigg county. About three weeks ago Weaver, who was a colored packer in the employ of an association tobacco house at Golden Pond, in Trigg county, was taken from his bed at midnight by a band of between thirty and forty masked and armed night riders. He was carried a short distance from the village and subjected to a whipping. The riders then withdrew a short distance from him and commanded him to run. When he failed to obey the order promptly the outlaws fired on him, one bullet striking him in the shoulder, randing downward, and he fell. The night riders galloped away, leaving Weaver writhing in agony in the road, where he was found the next morning. He was taken to the home of his father in Canton. Where he lingered until relieved from his suffering by death. Weaver was 30 years old. No reason for his treatment by the night riders has been given except that he was impudent. The night riders have visited Golden Pond three times. Once they burned an independent tobacco barn, and on another raid destroyed a blind tiger.
publisher: Louisville Courier Journal
date: 1908-04-10
contributor: Bridan Braun
format: Image
coverage: Golden Pond, Trigg County

Weaver, The Bourbon News, March 27, 1908
subject: Weaver, Tom
subject: Mob, whipping
subject: Mob, shooting
subject: Mob, Night Riders
description: Shot Down Inoffensive Negro. A band of twenty-five night riders, masked and armed, rode Tuesday night into Golden Pond, a village in Trigg county, and after firing off guns went to the hotel and from the servants’ quarters forced Tom Weaver, aged forty, a negro tobacco packer, to accompany them. The band took Weaver a little distance from the village, with drew a short distance from him and told him to run. The negro failed to obey promptly, and the night riders began shooting at him. One bullet entered his shoulder and another his hip. He fell in the road, where neighbors found him the next morning in a dying condition. No cause for the outrage is known. Weaver worked for an association prizing house.
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publisher: The Bourbon News
date: 1908-03-27
contributor: Bridan Braun
format: Image
coverage: Golden Pond, Trigg County

Weaver, Hopkinsville Kentuckian, March 26, 1908
subject: Weaver, Tom
subject: Mob, whipping
subject: Mob, shooting
subject: Mob, Night Riders
description: NEGRO TAKEN OUT AND MURDERED BY NIGHT RIDERS AT GOLDEN POND. Second Killing That Has Occurred by Night Riders Within a Week. REIGN OF CRIME STILL UNTOUCHED Following close upon the murder of Hiram Hedge in Nicholas county, comes the news of another murder by night riders, this time in Trigg county. A band of twenty five night riders, masked and armed, rode Monday night into Golden Pond, a village between the rivers, and after firing off guns went to the hotel and from the servants’ quarters forced Tom Weaver, aged 40, a negro tobacco packer, to accompany them. The band took Weaver a little distance from the village, and after whipping him withdrew a short distance from him and told him to run. The negro failed to obey promptly and the riders began shooting at him. One bullet entered his shoulder and another his hip. He fell in the road, where neighbors found him next morning in a dying condition, and he died Tuesday. No cause for the outrage is known. Weaver worked for an association prizing house.
source: Newspapers.com
publisher: Hopkinsville Kentuckian
date: 1908-03-26
contributor: Bridan Braun
format: Image
coverage: Golden Pond, Trigg County

Miller, Hopkinsville Kentuckian, August 12, 1909.
subject: Miller, Wallace
subject: Charge, Insulted a Little White Girl
subject: Mob, Hanging
subject: Mob, 50 members
description: Negro Lynched In Trigg Co.
description: Insulted a Little White Girl Near Caledonia, Monday. PENALTY WAS SWIFT. Before The Day Was Over He Was Hanged By a Mob.
description: A negro named Wallce Miller was hanged by a mob near Mt. Tabor church, on teh road from Cadiz to Caledonia, Monday evening about nightfall. An indecent proposal made to the little nine-year-old daughter of Thomas Wadlington, near Caledonia, was the crime that brought speedy death to him. Miller was a mulatto about 20 years of age and lived near Cadiz. About 11:30 A.M. Monday the little girl was sent to the mail box at the road, 400 yards from the house, to get the mail. Miller was at the gate and accosted her and asked her if her father was at home. The little girl told him he was not. Then he asked if her brothers were and she told him they were in the field at work. Then came the proposition that terrified the little girl and as she started away in fear the brute called to her that he would give her some money if she would say nothing about what he had said. She continued to move away and replied that she would tell it when she got to the house. At this point Miller started toward her and she ran inside the gate, slammed it shut and ran as fast as she could to the house, where she told what had happened. Wayne and Monte Wadlington the child’s brothers, were soon on the trail and came up with Miller a mile and a half down the road. He denied his identity, but from the description they knew they had the right man and he was taken back to the Wadlington house where the little girl identified him and he finally confessed, saying he didn’t know why he did, that is was just “the negro in him.” About 4 o’clock the Wadlington boys and Milton Barber started to Cadiz with Miller. They returned after night and reported that they were met by a mob of 50 men at the church half way to Cadiz and Miller was taken from them and hanged to a tree. The body was left hanging by the roadside until Tuesday evening and the authorities were notified where it could be found. This is the fourth occurrence of this kind within a radius of ten miles within the last eight or nine months. Last w…
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publisher: Hopkinsville Kentuckian
date: 1909-09-12.
contributor: Katie Craig
format: Image.
coverage: Caledonia; Cadiz, Trigg County.