1 10 1 https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/b9c917764acd41a7cef2c4626c344239.jpeg dc96e41b78aa8936891939149675084b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Boone County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mayo, St. Louis Globe, April 02, 1877 Subject The topic of the resource Mayo, Parker Charge, Rape Mob, Hanging Mob, 2 Mob, Unmasked Description An account of the resource <h3>Lynch Law in Kentucky. Full Particulars of the Lynching of Parker Mayo. Terrible Punishment for a Terrible Crime</h3> Cin, Apr. 2.-“ From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Our dispatches yesterday announced the lynching of a colored man Parker Mayo, near Walton, Ky., for the rape of a white child near that place. With a view to obtaining full particulars of the affair and of the crime for which he suffered, an Enquirer reporter took passage on the 3 o'clock Short Line Railroad train yesterday afternoon, and was landed in Walton an hour later. Diligent inquiry in the proper quarters revealed the following facts: Parker Mayo was a -colored mulatto, who was born a slave on the plantation of Mr. Diedrick, near James River, Va. For the past year and a half he has been working off and on on the construction train of the Louisville Short Line Railroad, and living off it when out of work as a sort of hangeron. Last Tuesday, about noon, he presented himself at the cabin or shanty of a railroad laborer named James Murray, which 18 situated just north of the crossing of the Cincinnati Southern and Louisville Short Line Railroads, about a mile and three- quarters from Walton, and close to the place where Allen and Goss fought last September. Murray was absent at the time visiting his wife, who, with her youngest child, is an inmate of St. Elizabeth Hospital, in Covington, undergoing treatment for sore eyes. In the cabin was Murray daughter, Molly, a little girl of nine years, and her two little brothers, one six and half and the other three years old. As soon 38 Mayo entered the shanty he took the little girl by the band and pulled her over to the bed, upon which he threw her, and then putting his hand over her mouth to prevent her outcries attracting attention, he forced her to submit to his loathsome embraces. The human brute compelled his little victim to remain in bed with him all the afternoon, as she, in her innocence told him where her parents were, and be had no fear of interruption. Towards evening he left the cabin, but did not stay away more than an hour or so when he returned, and this time he endeavored to entice the little girl to go down to the woods with him. She refused to accompany him, whereupon he offered her several dollars in money if she would comply with his wishes. Molly still resisted his request, and then he threatened to shoot her if she did not do as he wanted. The child cried out in alarm, and the brute, becoming alarmed, fled and did not return. It is thought that he intended to coax the little girl to the woods, so that he could murder her and so prevent her from telling the story of his horrible crime. The little boys he evidently did not think old enough to bear evidence against him, Wednesday he went to the house of a man named Shefly, who lives on the farm of Mr. George T. Gaines, on the Covington and Lexington pike. Mr. Shefly was away from the house at the time at work, and Mayo asked Mrs. Shefly what she would charge him to make him some shirts. She informed him that she sometimes took in sewing, but that just then she had too much work of her own to attend to, and that she could not sew for anybody outside of her own family. Just then two men came down the road, and the negro seeing them, left Mrs. Shefly and started off. As soon as the men were well out of sight he returned to her house, and said that he would like to make a trade with her for two dollars. She replied that she had nothing to trade with him, and then he became more outspoken in his advances. His conduct so incensed Mrs. Shefly that she outered him away from her house. Mayo responded that she 'needn't talk that way to him as she couldn't frighten him.' He also told her that he could throw her down and do what he pleased with her, and that she could not help herself, as he was armed. In proof of his last assertion he produced a revolver. The frantic woman, almost frightened to death, caught her infant in her arms and fled screaming in the direction where her husband was working. Intelligence of the negro's heinous crime upon the little girl Murray, and of his attempt upon the person of Mrs. Shelly, spread rapidly, and scouting parties were organized to hunt him down. Wednesday night one of these parties, consisting of two men, one of them Mr. Shefly, arrived in Florence in search of Mayo, and not being able to obtain lodging in its hotel, went to a haystack in the vicinity to pass away the night. In raking down some hay to make a bed they uncovered Mayo, who was sleeping there, and they returned to Florence, where they procured Constable Theodore Chambers, who went to the baystack and arrested the negro. Thursday morning he was brought to Walton, and that afternoon he had a preliminary examination before 'Squires child, Reuben Conner. Both the child Molly, Murray and Mrs. Shefly appeared against after recognizing him as the man who had assaulted them, detailed the manner of the assault as above detailed. Mrs. O'Gorman, of Allen-Goss prize fight fame, made an examination of the littie girl, and said she was not much injured about the person, but that the body and breasts were much bruised and swollen. O'Gorman was not sure whether or not Mayo had accomplished fendish purpose upon the child. At the conclusion of the examination Mayo was held over in the sum of $500 to appear at the next term of the Boone County Criminal Court, to answer to the charge on rape Upon the person of the child Murray, and the sum of $100 to answer a charge of assault with intent to commit rape upon Mrs. Shefly. The bail was placed at these merely nominal figures because the 'Squires were convinced that it was knew impossible for all him to give $50 bail, and they knew for all practical purposes that a $500 bail would hold him as firm as would $5,000. After the examination 'Squire Conner succeeded in getting a quasi admission of guilt out of Mayo, by asking him if he was not sorry about what he'd done. He replied that he was. "I reckon you wouldn't do it again if you had to do it again, would you?" queried the 'Squire. "No indeed, I would not", responded the villain. A mittimus for Mayo's detention in the Boone County Jail was them made out and given to Constable Theodore Chambers and his assistant, Wm. Kenyon. Public feeling was very strong against the negro and he saw and felt that he was doomed to die before morning. Indeed, it is asserted that he was told so before leaving the 'Squire's office. Between seven and eight o'clock in the evening the officers placed Mayo in a light,open -topped spring-wagon and started with him for Burlington, the county seat of Boone. They had just got to the point about the outskirts of Walton when they noticed they were being followed by two men on horseback, and this fact made the negro very nervous. When they reached a piece woods just in the vicinity of Murray's cabin, the mare they were driving shied, and the next moment twenty-five or thirty men jumped up from the fence corner and ordered the men to halt. Chambers said. "Bill give me a pistol; gentlemen, this is an outrage." "God damn you, I'll give you a pistol" replied one of the crowd at the same running the muzzle of his six shooter against Chambers' nose. The latter just then lost all interest in his own premises and concentrated his mind upon appeals to the man who had the "drop" on him not to shoot. Kenyon sprang to his mare's head to keep her from running away, but a gentleman stepped in front of him, and, presenting his pistol, said:"Now you stand back I'll take care of this animal myself," By this time the crowd had seized Mayo, and as they took him over the fence into the field, Chambers and Kenyon sprang into the vehicle and drove rapidly away. When they got about fifty yards away they fired off two shots at the mob, and the latter returned the compliment with interest. They concluded that the climate was not overly healthy just then, so they left it on the double-quick. About midnight a representative of the Enquirer left Walton, and by 1 o'clock the body of the negro was discovered hanging to the limb of a tree just west of the road,and the fact was at once telegraphed to this paper. Yesterday morning Mayo's body was cut down the absence of the and 'Squire Norman, in the absence of the Coroner, held an inquest on it. The jury was composed of the following gentlemen: Gilbert Booth, Elijah Green, Joseph Beiler, Andrew Casey, Thomas Coyle and A. S. Arnold. After hearing the testimony in the case, which was very meagre, they returned a verdict finding that deceased "Came to his death by hanging by persons unknown to the jury." The body, which looked around extremely natural and unmarked, except where the throat where the rope had cut a grove in it, was then placed in a plain wooden coffin and buried within one hundred yards of the tree upon which it was found." 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