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THE NECKTIE ROUTE. A Rope Placed Around Elmer Hill’s Neck and He is Jerked into Eternity. ABOUT THIRTY MEN DID THE WORK. The expected happened last Wednesday night when a mob of about thirty or forty citizens of Russell county visited the…

ELMER HILL IS HUNG BY MOB Was Taken Out Last Night at Monticello and Lynched. A mob at Monticello, Ky., last night found and took out of jail and hanged Elmer Hill, the white man charged with assault upon and the murder of his thirteen-year-old…

FULL STORY OF HILL LYNCHING Confesses Crime and Mob Sings Hymn Before Hanging Murderer. DANVILLE, Ky., Dec. 18. – Elmer Hill, confessed child-murdered, paid the death penalty for his crimes Wednesday night. As the hangmen were looping the rope…