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Warren County
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Morton, Owensboro Twice-A-Week Messenger, February 6, 1897
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Morton, Robert
Charge, writing an insulting letter to a young unmarried white woman
Mob, unknown number
Mob, hanging
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<h3>A NEGRO LYNCHED</h3>
<strong>In Morgan County fo Writing an Insulting Letter to a White Woman</strong><br />
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bawling [sic] Green, Feb. 4.—Last night, near Rockfield, ten miles from this city, a negro named Robert Morton yesterday wrote an insulting note to Miss Tillie Johnson, a very popular young white woman of that town. When it became known, a posse went out to arrest Morton. He ran, but the posse gave chase and captured him after shooting him several times. While the officers were guarding Morton, a mob overpowered them and took the prisoner three miles away and hanged him. The body was found this morning. The matter was kept so quiet that it was not known here until noon today.</span></p>
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Twice-A-Week Messenger [Owensboro, Ky.]
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1897-02-06
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Kailly Oum
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Rockfield, Warren County
1890-1900
1897
Kailly Oum
Morton
Rockfield
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Warren County
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Morton, Hartford Ohio County News, February 10, 1897
Subject
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Morton, Robert
Charge, writing an insulting letter to a young unmarried white woman
Mob, unknown number
Mob, hanging
Description
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<h3><strong>Another Kentucky Lynching.</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">BOWLING GREEN, KY., Feb. 4—Robert Morton, colored, was hanged by a mob about three miles from Rockfield, shortly after midnight last night. The lynchers went about the work in a quiet way, and the people of this vicinity were so reticent on the subject that nothing was known here of the affair until noon to-day. Rockfield is a little station on the L. and N., ten miles from this city.<br /><br />It is said that the negro, a son of a section hand at Rockfield, yesterday wrote an insulting and insinnating [sic] note to Miss Tommie Johnson, a well known white woman of Rockfield. When this became known a posse started to arrest him, he ran, and the officers gave chase, capturing him only after threatening him several times. After his arrest, he was taken to a house on the Russellville pike, not far from town, and put under guard until he could be brought here and lodged in jail.<br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">About 12 o’clock a party of men appeared at the house, overpowered the guards, and took the prisoner away from them. They then proceeded with him about three miles from Rockfield, and hanged him and quietly dispersed, going to their homes. </span></p>
<p><strong>NOT LYNCHED<br /></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">BOWLING GREEN, KY., Feb. 8.—Robert Morton, the negro boy who was taken from his home near Rockfield, ten miles south of Bowling Green, Thursday night by a mob, has not yet been found. It is claimed by the people of this city that the negro was not lynched, but only severely whipped.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">Morton’s offense consisted in sending an offensive letter to Miss Timmie Johnson, of Rockfield. Her friends heard of this and several young men went to the home the negro, took him to the woods and gave him one hundred lashed on his back. It is said the boy left the country, fearing more serious punishment. </span></strong></p>
<h4><strong> </strong></h4>
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Ohio County News [Hartford, Ky.]
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1897-02-10
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Kailly Oum
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Rockfield, Warren County
1890-1900
1897
Kailly Oum
Morton
Rockfield
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Warren County
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Warren County
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Skaggs, Osceola Record, April 23, 1891
Subject
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Skaggs, Will
Charge, murder
Mob, seven members
Mob, shooting
Mob, masked
Description
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<h3>NEWS NOTES.</h3>
An armed mob shot and killed in Warren county, Ky., Will Skaggs, colored, an escaped murderer.
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Osceola Report [Osceola, Ne.]
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1891-04-23
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Kailly Oum
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Bowling Green, Warren County, Allen County
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<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/osceola-record/134921095/">Newspapers.com</a>
1890-1900
1891
Allen County
Bowling Green
Kailly Oum
Skaggs
Transcribed
Warren County
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Warren County
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Skaggs, Kansas City Times, April 17, 1891
Subject
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Skaggs, Will
Charge, murder
Mob, seven members
Mob, shooting
Mob, masked
Description
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<h3>A Murder Summarily Avenged.</h3>
<br /><span style="font-weight: 400;">LOUISVILLE, KY., APRIL 16–Seven masked men visited the old Union neighborhood near Bowling Green early this morning and shot to death Will Skaggs, a negro 18 years of age, who on Tuesday fatally cut a young white man named Kirby. The men then mounted their horses and quietly rode away in different directions. There is no clue to their identity.</span>
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<a href="https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/readex/doc?p=EANX&docref=image/v2%3A11FF2A92A519802A%40EANX-1206C6A3EBDE1E28%402411840-1203DA53798403A8%403-12388FE3196C8E9E%40Guilty%2BOf%2BWill%2BForgery.%2BTwo%2BChicagoans%2BConvicted%2Bof%2Ba%2BBold%2BScheme%2Bto%2BSecure%2Ba%2BFortune&hlterms=">America's Historical Newspapers</a>
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Kansas City Times [Kansas City, Mo.]
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1891-04-17
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Kailly Oum
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Bowling Green, Warren County, Allen County
1890-1900
1891
Allen County
Bowling Green
Kailly Oum
Skaggs
Transcribed
Warren County
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Warren County
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Skaggs, Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky Leader), April 17, 1891
Subject
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Skaggs, Will
Charge, murder
Mob, seven members
Mob, shooting
Mob, masked
Description
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<h3>FILLED WITH BULLETS.</h3>
<h4>FATE OF A NEGRO BOY WHO CUT A WHITE ONE<br />A Mob's Vengeance About Two Miles from Bowling Green, Kentucky-The Victim of the Cutting Will Also Pass in His Checks</h4>
<h4><span style="font-weight: 400;">Special to THE LEADER<br /></span></h4>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bowling, Green, KY., April 17.—William Skaggs, a colored boy 18 years old, met death early yesterday morning, a victim to mob violence. It occurred in the country about two miles from this city. He was a pure African, and the son of John Skaggs, who lived near the scene of the shooting.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Skaggs on Tuesday went up into Allen county on a visit, and while there became engaged in a personality difficulty with a young white man named William Kirby. It resulted in Kirby being badly cut with a knife in the hands of Skaggs, and he is now lying at the point of death.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Skaggs came to his home in this county, and fearing a visitation from a mob went to the house of Boyd Johnson to spend the night. Before day seven masked men appeared at the house of Skeggs’ father and inquired for the boy. Failing to find him there they went to Johnson’s, and, after they had surrounded the house, Skaggs, who had been awakened and was on the alert, rushed out the back door and attempted to escape, but was met by a volley of bullets from the maskers and fell dead to the ground.</span></p>
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Lexington Herald-Leader (formerly known as the Kentucky Leader) [Lexington, Ky.]
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1891-04-17
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Kailly Oum
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Bowling Green, Warren County, Allen County
1890-1900
1891
Allen County
Bowling Green
Kailly Oum
Skaggs
Transcribed
Warren County
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Skaggs, Cleveland Gazette, April 25, 1891
Subject
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Skaggs, Will
Charge, murder
Mob, seven members
Mob, shooting
Mob, masked
Description
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<h3>Seven White Curs Kill a Boy</h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">BOWLING GREEN. KY.--William Skaggs, a colored boy eighteen years old, met death, early last week Thursday morning, a victim to mob violence, in the country about two miles from this city. Skaggs, on Tuesday, went up into Allen county on a visit and while there became engaged in a personal difficulty with a white man named William Kirby, resulting in Kirby being fatally cut with a knife. Thursday, seven masked men hunted Skaggs up, and while he was trying to escape a volley of bullets from the maskers killed him.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Arkansas legislature has twelve Negro representatives, one in the senate and eleven in the house.</span></p>
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America's Historical Newspapers
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Cleveland Gazette [Cleveland, Oh.]
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1891-04-25
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Kailly Oum
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Bowling Green, Warren County, Allen County
1890-1900
1891
Allen County
Bowling Green
Kailly Oum
Skaggs
Transcribed
Warren County
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Warren County
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Skaggs, Hartford Ohio County News, April 22, 1891
Subject
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Skaggs, Will
Charge, murder
Mob, seven members
Mob, shooting
Mob, masked
Description
An account of the resource
<h3>KILLED BY A MOB.</h3>
<h4>A Murderer Meets Sudden Retribution at the Hands of Masked Men in Warren County.</h4>
BOWLING GREEN, KY., April 16.--At 2 o’clock this afternoon the news was received at this town of a mob that visited the old Union neighborhood, this county, at an early hour this morning, and shot to death Will Skaggs, a negro, eighteen years of age. The mob was a small one, being composed of seven men, all masked, but they were armed and determined, as their subsequent actions show. Tuesday Skaggs was in Allen county, and became engaged in a difficulty with a young white man named Kirby, and the result was that the negro dangerously and probably fatally cut his adversary with a pocket-knife. Recognizing the seriousness of his crime, he fled from the scene, and came to his home in the old Union neighborhood, near this city. He arrived at his father’s home last night, but fearing mob violence left before midnight, and went to the cabin of old Boyd Johnson, a negro living near by. He remained there until a short while before the day this morning, when he and the other inmates of the house were aroused by a sound of pounding at the door. Believing the noise was made by a mob the negro dressed hurriedly and attempted to escape from the house by a rear door. When the negro fled from the band of men who were beating on the door he ran almost into the arms of seven masked men. They at once fired on him, and after firing five shots Skaggs fell dead, each of the shots having pierced his body. <br /><br />After killing the negro the mob mounted horses and dispersed, each going quietly in a different direction. It is not known who composed the mob, but it is supposed the men were white, and that the members were friends of young Kirby, who was so seriously cut Tuesday. Not a word was spoken from the time the mob went to the house until it dispersed. News from Allen county received since noon is to the effect that Kirby is dying.
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<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ohio-county-news-the-ohio-county-new/133851066/">Newspapers.com</a>
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Ohio County News [Hartford, Ky.]
Date
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1891-04-22
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Kailly Oum
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Image
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Bowling Green, Warren County, Allen County
1890-1900
1891
Allen County
Bowling Green
Kailly Oum
Skaggs
Transcribed
Warren County
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Warren County
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Harper, Lexington Weekly Leader, December 29, 1892
Subject
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Harper, Bob
Charge, rape
Mob, hanging
Description
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<h3>Bob Harper Dies</h3>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto"><strong>At the Hands of a Mob at Bowling Green— Sudden Ending to the Inquiry in Progress— The Prisoner Captured in the Court House— And Hung From a Beech street in the Fair Grounds<br /><br /></strong></div>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto">Bowling Green, Ky., Dec. 28– Bob Harper has paid the penalty for the assault upon Miss Anderson, and the people feel that the terrible crime has been avenged.<br /><br /></div>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto">When court opened this morning the witnesses for the Commonwealth were examined and Hon. J.C. Sims had just announced that the Commonwealth would rest. Judge Delaney had retired to the witness room to consult his witness, when a mob entered the court room armed with guns.<br /><br /></div>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto">It was just 11:40 o’clock a.m. The prisoner ran to The Leader correspondent who was standing near at hand and dropped at his feet pleading for protection. The mob leaders grabbed the poor wretch and dragged him from the court room. <br /><br /></div>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto">It was announced that the hanging would take place at the fair grounds, which is just one mile from the court house. The march continued up State street and out Twelfth to the grounds.<br /><br /></div>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto">Just inside the gate there is a large beech tree, and under this was placed a wagon. Harper’s feet and hands were securely tied, and the noose placed around his neck. He was then lifted to the wagon seat and allowed to make a statement. <br /><br /></div>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto">He stoutly protested his innocence, and died game. His coolness was remarkable. The wagon was pulled from under him at 11:58 o’clock and he was pronounced to be dead fifty minutes later.<br /><br /></div>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto">A placard was then placed upon the body which read: “This body must hang till tomorrow at noon, December 29. By order of the Committee.” <br /><br /></div>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto">Not a shot was fired, and the crowd dispersed quietly. There was no boisterous conduct, the mob being composed of sober and orderly men.<br /><br /></div>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto">Along the streets leading to the fair grounds the ladies rushed to the windows and much excitement was created in the homes.<br /><br /></div>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto">Just before the hanging, while preparations were being made, Harper dictated this statement to several newspaper men, which was written out by the Louisville Post correspondent and to which he added his signature.<br /><br /></div>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto">“I have done all I can do in this world to prove my innocence. I am innocent, and I will die with that on my lips I believe I am saved. Have never done anybody any harm. Ask my folks to bury me in the cemetery.”<br /><br /></div>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto">ROBERT HARPER<br /><br /></div>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto">From the courthouse to the scene of the hanging your correspondent tried to pursuance him to confess if guilty, but he stoutly protested his innocence.<br /><br /></div>
<div dir="auto"></div>
<div dir="auto">A committee of citizens went to the Anderson residence this morning and was told by Miss Anderson’s father and family that they believed Harper guilty. This determined the angry crowd to take the law into their own hands. </div>
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<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-weekly-leader-harper/130535075/">Newspapers.com</a>
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The Weekly Leader [Lexington, Ky.]
Date
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1892-12-29
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Micah Lynn
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Bowling Green, Warren County
1890-1900
1892
Bowling Green
Harper
Micah Lynn
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Warren County