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Woodford County
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James, New York Age, March 19, 1921
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James, Richard
Charge, murder
Mob, hanging
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Lynch Negro After Jury Fails to Agree</h3>
<p>Versailles, Ky.– Richard James, colored, was tried last week before Circuit Judge R.L. Stout for the murder of Ben T. Rodgers, and Homer Nave, two distillery guards. Owing to the evidence, the jury reported to Judge Stout last Saturday it as unable to reach a verdict.</p>
<p>Deciding a case of evidence did not please some citizens, who organized an automobile party and decided to have a big night; so a mob, composed of fifty persons sent to the Woodford County Jail, took the keys from John T. Edger, the jailer, and proceeded to James’ cell.</p>
<p>The prisoner put up a game fight, (something the jailer failed to do) but “heroic action” was taken by one of the “brave” members of the mob who knocked James senseless with a blackjack. He was then taken in a machine to the intersection of the Frankford [<em>sic</em>] and Midway pikes, two miles from Versailles, and hanged to a tree.</p>
<p>None of the members of the mob were identified by Jailer Edger.</p>
<p>The two guards were killed while defending the distillery from an attack by a party of armed men who were attempting remove whiskey. It was thought by local authorities that Hames mihgt [<em>sic</em>] have been a member of the party.</p>
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<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-new-york-age-lynching/81309173/">Newspapers.com</a>
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The New York Age
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1921-03-19
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Micah Lynn
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Midway; Versailles, Woodford County
1920-1930
1921
James
Micah Lynn
Midway
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Versailles
Woodford County
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Woodford County
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James, The Lexington Herald, March 13, 1921
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James, Richard
Mob, hanging
Charge, murder
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<p>Versailles, Ky., March 13– Aroused by the failure of a jury Saturday to agree on a death sentence for Richard James, a negro, charged with the murder of two distillery guards at Midway on October 8, a mob of more than fifty men men early this morning took the prisoner from the Woodford County jail here and hanged him from a tree less than a mile from town on Frankfort pike.</p>
<p>The mob drove up to the jail shortly before 1:30 o’clock in seven automobiles, all heavily loaded. A guard was quietly thrown about the jail, following which four masked men knocked at the door of the home of John H. Edger, the jailer. When he came to the door the men seized him and wrested the keys to the jail away from him.</p>
<p>“You won’t be harmed, but we are going to get James,” the men told Edger, he said today. The mob then entered the jail and went to the cell where James was confined.</p>
<p><strong>James Gives Fight</strong></p>
<p>According to a story prevalent about the streets of Versailles today, James resisted the attempts of the mob to take him from his cell and it was only after a struggle he was overpowered. It is said that when the first man entered James’ cell he struck him with his fist and engaged the others in a rough and tumble fight. It was only after the negro had been struck over the head several times with a blackjack that he was subdued sufficiently for the mob to take him from the jail.</p>
<p>After taking James from his cell, he was placed in the waiting machines and taken half a mile from the city limits to the intersection of the pike leading from Versailles to Frankfort with a road that crosses to the old Frankfort pike.</p>
<p>Here from a lower limb of a cottonwood tree a rope was swung and the noose fastened about the negro’s beck. After he had been pulled several feet from the ground the other end of the rope was fastened about the base of another tree and the mob drove off.</p>
<p><strong>Tried to Chew Rope in Two</strong></p>
<p>It is said that James made desperate attempts to free himself and the rope which which he was hung was said to bear James’ teeth marks showing where he had attempted to but the rope which was strangling him. The body, when cut down at 5 o’clock this morning was found dangling less than five feet from the ground. The tree from which James was hung is about 100 yards from another tree from which a negro was hung by a mob less than twenty five years ago.</p>
<p>Mark Brower, a negro undertaker of Versailles, cut down the body and brought it to his establishment in the city after he had been notified by the coroner, B.B. Smith. Shortly after the mob had taken James from the jail, Mr. Edger, the jailer, called County Attorney Will D. Jesse. He immediately notified coroner Smith, who began a search for the body.</p>
<p><strong>Will Hold Inquest Today</strong></p>
<p>Inquest into the death will be held tomorrow morning, Coroner Smith announced today. Whether Jailed Edger was able to identify any of the men in the mob is not known. It is believed, however, that he did nog recognize any of the men, as the four who seized him when he came to the door of his home were masked. The others were some distance away and standing in the dark. The members of the mob are all believed to have come from the Midway section, as they came to Versailles in machines from that direction.</p>
<p><strong>Lynched Near Girls’ School</strong></p>
<p>The tree from which James was hung is about 400 yards from Margaret College, a girls’ school. The institution faces on a street of Versailles, but from the rear of the school the spot where the negro was hung can be plainly seen.</p>
<p>Woodford County officials visited the scene of the hanging today. The rope with which James was lynched was turned over to the authorities by the undertaker. Hundreds of people today visited the scene of the hanging. Marks on the tree indicated one member of the mob had climbed it and fastened the rope about the limb. Ten or fifteen feet away stands a tree about which the rope was tied by the mob.</p>
<p>Feeling has been high since the trial of James began, the authorities were not prepared for such action on the part of the citizens. James was accused of killing Rogers and Nave when he was apprehended while attempting to rob the Midway distillery.</p>
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Papers of the NAACP
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The Lexington Herald
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1921-03-13
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Micah Lynn
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Midway; Versailles, Woodford County
1920-1930
1921
James
Micah Lynn
Midway
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Versailles
Woodford County
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Woodford County
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James, Woodford Sun, March 17, 1921
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James, Richard
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Lynching Follows Hung Jury in Murder Trial</strong></h3>
<p><strong>Mob takes Richard James From Jail — Gov. Morrow Removes Jailer Edger — Judge Mulcahy Appoints<br />Mrs. Edger — Special Grand Jury</strong><br /><br />A mob took Richard James, a negro, charged with the<br />murder of Ben T. Rodgers and Homer Nave in the<br />Midway distillery the night of Oct. 8 last., from the<br />county jail at about 1 o’clock Sunday morning and<br />hanged him from a tree on the west side of the Midway<br />turnpike, near its intersection with the Frankfort<br />turnpike, a mile from Versailles.<br />Jailer John H. Edger, awakened by knocks at the<br />door, put on his trousers and a dressing gown went to<br />the door. He ways the porch was filled with men and<br />that those surrounding the door, if not all, wore masks.<br />The leader said: “We have come for the negro and<br />want the keys.” Mr. Edger states that he refused to give<br />up the keys and began to remonstrate with the mob,<br />when four masked men sprang upon him and help him<br />helpless while the jail keys were being taken from his<br />trousers pocket. He was then jammed into a corner of<br />the hall, he says and held there while members of the<br />mob entered the jail and secured the prisoner and until<br />they were ready to start off with him.<br />A rope was places about James’ neck and, it is said,<br />he was dragged by the neck from the jail through the<br />side entrance.<br />Jailer Edger’s son-in-law, Ben Thompson, went out<br />and pleaded with members of the mob as they dragged<br />James up the stairway, but in vain.<br />After the mob left, Jailer Edger telephoned to Sheriff<br />Hawkins, chief of Police Dawson and County Attorney<br />W. D. Jesse.<br /><br /></p>
<p>Seven or more automobiles were in front of the jail<br />and the negro was put into one of the cars and the<br />procession started north on Main street. It is said that a<br />number on [sic] other automobiles were waiting in the<br />north end of town and fell behind.<br />Several people living near Frankfort and Midway<br />pike heard human cries of distress in the night that are<br />supposed to have been uttered by James.<br />The cottonwood tree from which James was hung is<br />but a short distance from another tree from which John<br />Henderson, colored, was lynched by a mob August 21,<br />1890, for the murder of Gilbert H. Satterwhite, a white<br />farmer.<br />James’ body was cut down at about 4 a.m. and was<br />taken to a colored undertaking establishment. It was<br />buried at Midway on Monday.<br />Judge Stout on Monday called a special term of the<br />Woodford circuit court for Saturday, March 26, when a<br />grand jury will be empaneled to investigate the<br />lynching of James.<br />A jury summoned Tuesday by Coroner B. B. Smith<br />returned the following verdict:<br />“We, the jury, find Richard James came to his death<br />in Woodford county on the 13th day of March 1921,<br />and at the hands of parties unknown.”<br />The trial of Richard James on the charge of the<br />murder of Ben T. Rodgers, was begun last Thursday in<br />the Woodford circuit court.<br />Commonwealth’s Attorney V. A. Bradley, W. D.<br />Jesse, county attorney, were assisted in the prosecution<br />by H. A. Schoberth. Gov. Charles M. Harriss and Judge<br />A. H. Nuckols, under appointment by the court,<br />appeared for the defendant.<br />The jury was composed of W. A. Cox, E. E. Eves,<br />C. H. Jones, Miles Chapman, Jesse Curd, Z. K.<br />Howard, John Montgomery, W. E. Anderson, Steven<br />Hartley, J. B. Lancaster, Frank Sublette and [illegible]<br />Hanks.<br />The testimony showed that in the fight in the<br />Midway distillery office between the negro whiskey<br />thieves and the distillery guards, aided by Ben T.<br />Rodgers, Homer Nave and Porter Hammond, James<br />grappled with Rodgers and reached his right hand<br />around Rodgers’ back: that a shot was heard and both<br />men fell to the floor, Rodgers dead, with a wound in his<br />spine, had under his arm James’ hat. James, in his<br />testimony did not deny ownership of the hat. The bullet<br />in Rodgers’ body corresponded to a bullet in a “38<br />special” revolver which James gave to another negro<br />the day after the shooting. Rodger’s [sic] clothes were<br />powder burned.<br />James denied that he shot Rodgers and also denied<br />that the “38 special” pistol was the weapon he had,<br />claiming that he had another pistol the night of the<br />tragedy that he threw away. James admitted attempting<br />to rob the distillery, but testified that Samuel Seay,<br />superintendent of the bottling department of the<br />distillery, had entered into a conspiracy with him and<br />other negroes by which the negroes were to steal<br />whiskey from he distillery warehouse and dispose of it,<br />dividing the proceeds “50-50” with Seay.</p>
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<p>Seay took the stand and emphatically denied this. He<br />admitted when questioned that there were at the present<br />time charges against him in Federal Court in<br />connection with alleged whiskey thefts at the distillery.<br />The case was argued by Commonwealth’s Attorney<br />Bradley and H. A. Schoberth for the Commonwealth<br />and by Judge A. H. Nuckols and Gov. Charles M.<br />Harris for the defense. It was given to the jury at 5<br />o’clock Friday afternoon.<br />Eleven of the jury voted for the death sentence, but<br />the twelfth man, W. E. Anderson, held out for life<br />imprisonment and was immovable. He said the Bible<br />was against taking any man’s life and he had<br />misunderstood the questions asked him when he<br />qualified for jury service. After the jury had been out<br />for 24 hours it was discharged at 5:10 Saturday<br />afternoon.<br />Large crowds attended the trial and there was much<br />feeling over the mistrial. The feeling was believed to<br />have been allayed, however, when Judge Stout issued<br />an order for a special term of court March 28 to re-try<br />the case.<br />After the jury was dismissed, Gov. Harriss and<br />Judge Nuckols, who had defended James under<br />appointment by the court, asked to be released from<br />further connection with the case and Judge Stout<br />granted their request.</p>
<p><br />Judge Stout’s Comment<br />Paris, Ky., March 14 — “So long as the better class of<br />citizens in any community shirks jury duty and the<br />courts are then compelled to take on persons unfit for<br />jury service, just as long will the mob spirit<br />occasionally rear its head,” said Circuit Judge Robert L.<br />Stout here this morning in delivering his charge to the<br />grand jury of the March term of Bourbon circuit court.<br />“It is the duty of every good citizen to give up his<br />time to the service of his State. If a criminal feels he<br />has been given a fair trial, he is satisfied more or less,<br />no matter what the verdict may have been. So long as<br />the citizens believe that both the State and the defense<br />has had a square deal, there will be no trouble. But if<br />the juries are made up in part of persons upfit [sic] to<br />serve then occasionally the mob spirit will arise.<br />“This was demonstrated at Versailles Sunday when<br />a mob took the negro Richard James, from the<br />Woodford county jail and executed him. but for the<br />presence in the case of one unfit juror this unfortunate<br />incident count not have happened.”<br /><br /></p>
<p><em>Second article under front page headline</em>:</p>
<p><br />Gov. E. P. Morrow, acting under the new law which<br />provides for the removal from office of a peace officer<br />who permits a prisoner to be taken from his custody by<br />a mob, issued a proclamation Monday removing John.<br />H. Edger from the office of county jailer.<br />Mr. Edger will file a petition for reinstatement, as<br />the law gives him the right to do. The law provides that<br />after hearing the evidence “if the Governor be of the<br />opinion that the officer had done all in his power to<br />protect the life and person of such prisoner, and that the<br />officer had not neglected to perform his legal duty, then<br />the Governor shall order the immediate reinstatement<br />of such removed officer.”<br />Gov. Morrow also offered a reward of $500 for the<br />arrest and conviction of any member of the mob and<br />addressed letters to County Judge E. Mulcahy and<br />County Attorney W. D. Jesse requesting them to make<br />a searching investigation of the mob and if possible to<br />ascertain the names of the members. The response of<br />these officers to the Governor was that a special term of<br />circuit court had been called for this purpose and that<br />the grand jury then empaneled [sic] would have an<br />authority not conceded to a court of inquiry.<br />Judge Mulcahy on Monday appointed Mrs. John H.<br />Edger as county jailer to fill the vacancy caused by the<br />removal of her husband. Mrs. Edger too the oath of<br />office and executed bond in the penal sum of $5,000,<br />with W. H. Edwards, Jr., surety.<br />Mrs. Edger, as far as we know, is the first woman to<br />hold the office of jailer in Kentucky. In the event Gov.<br />Morrow should fail to reinstate Mr. Edger, she will<br />hold office for the remainder of the term, or until Jan 1,<br />1922.<br />Mr. Edger and his attorney, Field McLeod, went to<br />Frankfort yesterday and requested of Gov. Morrow a<br />hearing of Mr. Edger’s claims for reinstatement as<br />jailer. The Governor set the hearing for next<br />Wednesday, March 23.</p>
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Woodford Sun
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Nicolas S. Martin
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1921-03-17
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Micah Lynn
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Midway; Versailles, Woodford County
1920-1930
1921
James
Micah Lynn
Midway
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Versailles
Woodford County
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Letcher County
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Woods, Lexington Herald-Leader, November 30, 1927
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Woods, Leonard
Mob, 200-500 members
Charge, murder
Mob, unmasked
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<h3>Man is Lynched By Armed Mob </h3>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Leonard Woods, Negro, Arrested in Slaying, Shot to Death; Body Placed on Platform and Structure Fired; Inquiry Is Begun<br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 30 (AP)— Gov. William J. Fields, when informed today of the lynching of Leonard Woods, Negro, 20, taken from the jail at Whitesburg by a mob said to have been from Virginia, said that he had received no notification from officials of Letcher county. He said that when officially notified of the lynching he would “take any action that a Governor of a State could take.”<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Jenkins, Ky., Nov. 30 (AP)— Soaring flames rising from the top of Cumberland Mountain signaled the death of Leonard Woods, Negro, who was lynched by a mob of more than 200 armed men early today.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Woods, arrested for the slaying of Hershel Deaton, 35, mine foreman for the Elkton Coal Corporation at Fleming, Ky., was shot to death as he faced a half circle of rifles. Then his body was placed on a platform recently erected for the dedication ceremonies at the opening of the Kentucky-Virginia highway. Gasoline was poured over it and a match touched off the structure.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The man had been arrested near Fleming shortly after Deaton’s body was found Sunday. Growing excitement caused officers to take the prisoner to Whitesburg Tuesday for safekeeping. Late Tuesday night a motorcade of more than 150 cars arrived in Whitesburg . An unmasked throng of men approached the jail, sawed through its iron bars, placed a chain around the prisoner’s neck and led him away.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Mrs. Fess Whittaker, the jailer, said the mob made no demonstration at the jail. She was powerless to resist the intruders, she said. Two Negro women who were arrested with Woods in connection with the slaying were unmolested.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Deaton was shot to death when he refused to allow Woods and the two women to ride in his automobile Sunday night, authorities charged.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The Governor of Kentucky heretofore has pursued a policy of summary dismissal from office of any jailer of State authority who has permitted the removal of his charges by unauthorized persons without physical resistance.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Investigation is Begun </strong><br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Whitesburg, Ky., Nov. 30 (AP)— County Attorney Harry L. Moore, immediately began an investigation into the lynching of Leonard Woods. “We will make every investigation possible and if evidence is obtained that the mob came from Virginia,” Moore said, “we will make protest to the Governor of Virginia against an armed force invading a Kentucky county, breaking into its jail and taking out and killing a prisoner.”<br /><br /><br />
<div id=":176" class="a3s aiL ">Meantime, search was being made for six prisoners who escaped from the battered jail here after the mob left. Thirty other prisoners did not leave.<br />
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<div dir="auto">County Judge Noah Bentley who was awakened by shots fired by the mob told this story:<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“The mob came into Whitesburg about 11 o’clock in between 75 and 100 automobiles. Estimates I have received placed the crowd as high as 300. Where they were from I cannot say authoritatively, but I do not believe they were from Letcher county.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“Mrs. Fess Whitaker, jailer, received word a few minutes before the mob arrived that they were coming and took her five children to the home of a neighbor for shelter. Before she could return the mob had arrived. The jailer’s residence is in the jail building.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“Sheriff T.M. Reynolds also received word the mob was coming and started preparations to remove Woods, but the mob beat him to the jail. The sheriff pleaded with the mob to let the law take its course. He was told by leaders of the crowd ‘We’re not aiming to hurt anyone in this town, but we are determined to get that Negro.’<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“A number of shots were fired by the mob. Attempt was made to shoot the lock off the gate of a high iron fence around the jail but it withstood the bullets. Then they climbed the fence and broke into the jail through the roof. A ladder was out to the roof and men tore a hole and went down into the jail. They broke into the jail and sawed and battered their way out.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“Hacksaws, axes, railroad ties and other things were used to cut and batter the jail. Bars of Woods’ cell were sawed and he was pulled out. They also took out Susan Armstrong, 25, and Anna May Emory, 25, Negro women jointly charged with Woods with the killing of Deaton but they were allowed to return to the jail.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“It was about midnight when the mob took Woods away. My information is that they took him to Pound Gap and hanged him in Virginia, 100 feet from the Kentucky line. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“I live half a mile away from the court house and jail. My son awakened me about midnight and told me he heard shooting. I got up and the mob was then driving out of town. The county attorney will make a report to the Governor.”<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The mob paused at Fleming, where Deaton worked and fired a few shots. Other demonstrations were staged at Neon and Jenkins. Jenkins officials protested against the Negro being lynched there and the crowd went on. The motorcade was joined by others along the route and the mob was estimated at 500 when it reached Pound Gap in the Cumberland mountains, the scene of the lynching. <br /><br /></div>
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<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/lexington-herald-leader/112677246/">Newspapers.com</a>
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Lexington Herald-Leader
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1927-11-30
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Micah Lynn
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Whitesburg; Fleming-Neon; Jenkins; Pound Gap, Letcher County
1920-1930
1927
Fleming-Neon
Jenkins
Letcher County
Micah Lynn
Pound Gap
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Whitesburg
Woods
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Todd County
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Kirby, Paducah News-Democrat, June 16, 1926
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Kirby, Primus
Mob, 150-250 members
Mob, masked
Charge, murder and attempted murder
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<h3>Quiet Prevails After Lynching of Todd Negro</h3>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Officials Investigate Hanging of Primus Kirby Near Guthrie— Negro Shoots World Veteran in Stomach— Taken From Officers By Mob Following His Arrest</strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">Elkton, Ky., June 15– Todd county officials tonight were investigating the lynching early today of Primus Kirby, 26, negro, on the Guthrie road. Quiet prevailed here tonight.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Coroner MacBell, who conducted a brief inquest, said the identity of none of the members of the mob was disclosed. Judge S.P. Slaughter said the county grand jury, which convened the second Monday in July, would investigate the case.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Kirby was taken from county officers near Guthrie today, after he had shot and seriously wounded Ed Bringhurst, a railroad employe [sic] who had been deputized to arrest in arrasting [sic] the nergo [sic]. The mob, variously estimated between 15 and 250, hanged the negro and fired several shots into his body. Kirby was being sought for slaying his former wife at Earlington, Ky., Monday.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Bringhurst, who was wounded in the stomach, was taken to a Clarksville, Tenn., hospital, where it was said tonight he had an even chance to recover. His ife [sic], a French war bride, and their four year old son, were scheduled to sail for America tomorrow from France, where they had been visiting her relatives.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">L.L. Weakly, one of the officers from whom the negro was taken, was the only witness at the inquest. He said the men were masked and that he did not recognize any of them. </div>
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News-Democrat [Paducah, Ky.]
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1926-07-16
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Micah Lynn
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Earlington, Hopkins County; Guthrie, Todd County
1920-1930
1926
Earlington
Guthrie
Kirby
Micah Lynn
Todd County
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Floyd County
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Shannon, Lexington Herald-Leader, October 28, 1924
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Shannon, "Kid"
Mob, shooting
Mob, 200 members
Charge, murder
Mob, masked
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<h3> Mob Shoots Alleged Slayer to Death, Takes Victim From a Jail</h3>
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<div dir="auto">Paintsville, Ky., Oct. 28– Marching to the jail at Wayland, Ky., late Sunday night, a mob composed of about 200 reputed residents of Floyd county, with sledge hammer and drills battered down the jail door, released “Kid” Shannon, Negro, 28, accused of the murder of a white man, and mortally shot him when he reached the street. The man died en route to the jail at Prestonburg.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Members of the mob, masked and armed, informed Shannon of their mission and gave him 30 minutes in which to pray, and to answer questions.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Instead he pleaded for his life and they poured a fussilade [sic] of shots into his body and left him for dead. Eighteen bullets riddled him.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">So quietly did the mob carry out its purpose and so quickly did it disperse that Floyd county authorities announced they had no clews concerning the identity of any of its participants.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Because Lock Hitchcock, 38, a miner for the Elkhorn Coal Corporation accused him of the theft of $5, Shannon is said to have shot him dead Sunday afternoon. Hitchcock gave Shannon $5 for him to purchase moonshine for him, it is alleged.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Shannon left but later returned with neither whisky [<em>sic</em>] or money, it is reported. An angry debate ensued, after which Hitchcock turned and walked away. Three shots were heard and Hitchcock was found dead with three bullets in his back. A sheriff’s posse found Shannon in the hills and brought him to the jail, at Wayland. He was to have faced a preliminary hearing and then was to have been taken to Prestonburg. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">On the same train and in the same coach that he rode, the body of his victim, Hitchcock, was also. It was being taken to the home for his brother at Paintsville for burial. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Although having but one arm, Shannon was a musician. </div>
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Lexington Herald-Leader
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1924-10-28
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Micah Lynn
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Paintsville, Johnson County; Wayland, Floyd County
1920-1930
1924
Floyd County
Micah Lynn
Paintsville
Shannon
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Wayland
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Smith, The Bourbon News, April 2, 1920
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Smith, Grant
Charge, rape
Mob, hanging
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<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bourbon-news-lynching-of-grant-smith/83204728/">Newspapers.com</a>
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The Bourbon News [Paris, Ky.]
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1920-04-02
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Micah Lynn
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Paris, Bourbon County; Mays Lick, Mason County; Fleming County
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<h3> Negro Taken From Paris Officer Is Lynched</h3>
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<div dir="auto">When The News closed its report Monday night if the action of a mob of men in taking officers at this point Grant Smith, colored, wanted in Fleming county, on a charge of criminal assault, it was not known what disposition had been made of the prisoner. Conflicting reports came from different sources, and, as communication had been cut off from Flemingsburg and other places, it was impossible to learn the negro’s fate that night. Press dispatches the following morning indicated what his end had been.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The revolver and handcuffs belonging to Chief of Police Link, which had been taken from him at the time were returned to him in a mysterious package Wednesday from a mysterious source, without comment or a message of any kind.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">One of the most ridiculous stories regarding the affair was that printed in Tuesday’s issue of the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune, in which it spoke of a mob of “Bourbon county mountaineers,” “At this writing the body of the negro is swinging from the end of a rope at the L & N railroad bridge near Millersburg,” etc. For misinformation and a lack of knowledge of this section of the country the Commercial-Tribune’s statement takes the whole bakery, and then some.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Smith’s victim attended college in Millersburg, where, after a time, the teachers learned of her trouble, and her parents took her home. She was there a week before the negro left. She was later sent to a hospital in Louisville. She told her parents that the repeated threats of death made by the negro had kept her silent until she could no longer do so, and had to tell them the truth. Smith, fearing that his threats would have no effect after the girl had informed her parents, left for parts unknown the day after the first attempt to lynch Lockett at Lexington.</div>
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<div dir="auto">The Coroner’s jury returned a verdict stating that Grant Smith, negro, lynched on the Maysville pike for alleged assault on a girl, met death at the hands of persons unknown.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Whether a grand jury investigation of the lynching will be held has not yet been announced. Deputy Sheriff George W. Powell, from whom the beg to was taken at Paris, said on his arrival at Flemingsburg, Tuesday, that he was unable to identify any of the members of the mob.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The body of Smith was cut down from the pole Tuesday and turned over to the family of the mob’s victim.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Governor Edwin P. Morrow, who was in Louisville, Monday night, remained up until long last midnight waiting definite word from Fleming county, where a mob lynched Grant Smith.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The Governor referred to the enactment by the recent Legislature of the law requiring removal from office of peace officers who surrender their prisoners to mobs and declared while the law is still inoperative (it does not take effect until June) there is no doubt as to the moral responsibility of the officers in allowing Smith to be taken from their custody.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“The incident is most regrettable,” said the Governor, “and the law should have been allowed to take its course.”<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“Summary justice dealt to Will Lockett at Lexington recently should leave no doubt in any honest mind that Kentuckians know how to deal with criminals of this type.”<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">A Paris newspaper man, who had followed the trail of the men who took to negro, Grant Smith, from the officers here, and started toward Fleming county, where the crime was committed, found at 3:30 o’clock Tuesday morning the dead body of the negro suspended from the cross-arm of a telephone pole on the Maysville pike, six miles from Mayslick, swaying in the wind.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The negro was taken to a point near Mayslick, Mason county, but within the borders of Fleming. On his way to the scene of the execution, Smith is said to have made a full confession to his captors, admitting he had forcibly taken advantage of the young girl on two occasions, and that “he didn’t know why he did it.”<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">When the self-appointed executioners arrived at a point six miles from Mayslick, they were met by the delegation which had been on watch in Maysville. The two parties combined and the negro was asked if he had anything to say. He asked for time to pray and was granted five minutes. Those who heard the prayer say he confessed his sins to God, asked to be forgiven and then told those personally in charge of him that he was ready. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">A hangman’s noose, made from a piece of new rope was placed around his neck. Some one in the crowd had brought along a pair of climbers, used by telephone linemen. Taking the end of the rope he rapidly climbed the pole, threw the end over the cross-bar and as he was descending the pole the negro’s body was being hoisted to a distance of twenty feet.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Smith slowly strangled to death. He was muttering, “Lord, forgive me,” as the rope tightened about his neck, shutting off his power of speech. As soon as the negro was dead, the party dispersed, going in opposite directions. The dead body of the negro was left with only a baying dog as its companion.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">From early daylight until 10 o’clock Tuesday morning the road leading to the scene of the lynching was blocked with vehicles of all descriptions, many coming from Lexington, Paris, Maysville and other river points. At 10 o’clock the coroner of Fleming county arrived, and with the assistance of several men, cut down the body, placed it in a wooden box and took it to Flemingsburg, where it will be buried by the county. Smith is survived by his wife and four children.<br /><br /></div>
1920
1920-1930
Fleming County
Mays Lick
Micah Lynn
Paris
Smith
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Fulton County
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Lewis, Louisville Courier-Journal, December 17, 1918
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Lewis, Charlie
Mob, 75-80 members
Mob, masked
Mob, hanging
Charge, attempted murder
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<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-journal/100225082/">Newspapers.com</a>
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The Courier-Journal [Louisville, Ky.]
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1918-12-07
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Micah Lynn
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Hickman, Fulton County
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<h3> Mob Batters Down Jail Doors and Hangs Negro</h3>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Officials Helpless While Crowd Takes Former Soldier Away From Them<br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">Hickman, Ky., Dec. 16– An infuriated mob broke down the huge iron doors of the county jail here early morning, forcibly took Charlie Lewis, a discharged negro soldier, out of his cell and hanged him to a tree two hundred yards from the jail. Saturday night two discharged negro soldiers held up two negroes several miles west of here while they were waiting for a train and robbed them of $52, telling them it was no use to call the Sheriff, as they belonged to Uncle Sam and no officer could bother them.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">At 11 o’clock last night everything was apparently quite [sic] and it was thought the trouble had blown over. Shortly after midnight Jailer Charles Murchison telephoned Sheriff Swayne Walker that crowds were collecting around the jail. He asked instructions. Sheriff Walker immediately got in touch with Circuit Judge Bunk Gardner and requested his advice. Sheriff Walker hurried to the jail, where he pleaded with the mob of between seventy-five and eighty men. He was covered with a gun. The mob then told him they were going to have Lewis. Walker had to stand by and see them hammer down the iron doors and beat off the locks with sledges.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Jailer Murchison was unable to hold back the surging crowd, but fled with the keys, refusing to turn them over to the mob.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The mob went through his quarters, battering open the lower iron doors, proceeded upstairs and broke another iron door open and then broke into the cells, beating the heavy iron doors off the hinges and piling them on the floor.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Sheriff Walker followed the mob to the tree across the railroad, still begging them not to proceed. The rope was soon fastened around the black’s neck. Lewis was soon dead. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Every man in the mob wore a mask. Lewis’s body hung until 9 o’clock this morning. Hundreds of persons viewed the body. Feeling was intense here all day yesterday. Lewis killed a white man six years ago. <br /><br /></div>
1910-1920
1918
Fulton County
Hickman
Lewis
Micah Lynn
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Woodford County
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James, Letter to Walter White, March 24, 1921
Subject
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James, Richard
Mob, hanging
Charge, murder
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<h3><span style="font-size: 14px;">Enclosed you will find important clippings relative to the Versailles lynching. You will note that the Governor has refused to reinstate the Jailer of Versailles. I think this article a very important one as it shown the attitude of out Governor to ferret out the criminals.</span></h3>
<br />I have made some private investigations through personal friends who live near the scene of the lynching. It is rumored that some of the [most?] prominent people in Versailles were members of the mob. It is hinted [that the ? ] were members of the mob.<br /><br />[remaining text unintelligable]
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Papers of the NAACP
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NAACP Louisville
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1921-03-24
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Micah Lynn
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Midway; Versailles, Woodford County
1920-1930
1921
James
Micah Lynn
Midway
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Versailles
Woodford County
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Woodford County
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James, NAACP Memo, March 29, 1921
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James, Richard
Charge, murder
Mob, hanging
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<h3>Lynching Town Boycotted By State Medical Society</h3>
<p>The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, today announced receipt of news that the State Medical Society of Kentucky had voted to call off a meeting which it had been planned to hold in Versailles, Kentucky.</p>
<p>Versailles is the scene of the lynching of Richard James on March 13, as a result of which Governor Morrow removed the jailor [<em>sic</em>] who permitted the mob to take its victim from his custody.</p>
<p>The change in the State Meeting of Kentucky’s medical society is a direct consequence of the lynching, according to the president of the society.</p>
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Papers of the NAACP
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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1921-03-29
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Micah Lynn
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Midway; Versailles, Kentucky
1920-1930
1921
James
Midway
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Versailles
Woodford County