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Woodford County
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James, Richmond Daily Register, March 17, 1921
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James, Richard
Mob, hanging
Charge, murder
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Governor to Hear Jailer’s Plea on 23d</h3>
<p><strong>Woodford Official From Whom Mob Took Prisoner to Lynch Says He Wasn’t at Fault</strong></p>
<p>Frankfort, Ky., March 17– John H. Edger, Versailles, who was removed from the office of county jailer of Woodford County by Governor Morrow following his surrender of the prisoner, Richard James, negro, to a mob which lynched him, has filed his petition with Governor Morrow for reinstatement. The governor set the hearing for March 23 at 10:30 o’clock.</p>
<p>The petition follows:</p>
<p>“Your petitioner, John H. Edger, respectfully represents that he is the same person who has been removed for mthe [<em>sic</em>] office of jailer of Woodford County, Kentucky, by proclamation of the governor following the lynching of one Richard James while in custody of petitioner as such jailer.</p>
<p>“Your petitioner respectfully represents that his loss of the custody of said James and the subsequent lynching of said James by a mob was wholly without any failure on the part of this petitioner to perform his duty and wholly without any neglect of duty on his part, and your petitioner therefore respectfully requests that the governor of the commonwealth by proper order reinstate the petitioner in his said office as jailer of Woodford County, Kentucky.</p>
<p>“Your petitioner avers that the lynching of said James, his prisoner, was not in any degree anticipated by the petitioner and he was wholly without any fault in the matter and he avers that he did everything in his power to protect the life and and person of said prisoner and in no way neglected or failed to perform his legal duties and respectfully requests that the governor fix a time for hearing the evidence in regard to the facts and that such evidence be permitted to be given orally, as petitioner desires only to have all the facts known and wishes to be fully interrogated himself by the governor and the legal representatives of the commonwealth.”</p>
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Midway; Versailles, Woodford County
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1921-03-17
1920-1930
1921
James
Midway
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Versailles
Woodford County
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Franklin County
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Johnson and Washington, The New York Times, August 9, 1871
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Washington, Henry
Johnson, Harry
Charge, inciting riot
Charge, rape
Mob, hanging
Mob, 200-250 members
Mob, masked
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading"> Kentucky Elections</h3>
<p><strong>Rioting Reported in Various Places– Two Whites Killed in Frankfort– Negro Prisoners Lynched</strong></p>
<p>FRANKFORT, Ky., Aug. 8– A riot commenced here last evening after the closing of the polls. A short scuffle arose among several negroes, and two shots were fired. The police interfered, but were driven back, seventy or eighty shots being fired, and large stones and boulders thrown, etc. Two white men– Mr. William Gilmore and Mr. Bishop– were instantly killed, and three or four other white men wounded. Five or six negroes were wounded, but none killed. A crowd of negroes paraded the streets after the shooting. The State troops were ordered out, and still under arms. The Federal troops were not called out. Toward midnight there was considerable excitement in the city. Young Mr. Gilmore, who was killed during the disturbance, was a master mason, and was extremely popular in the city. The leader of the negro rioters was arrested. He has received several severe though not fatal wounds.</p>
<p>About 2 o’clock, before daylight had set in, a band of about 250 men, armed and wearing masks, went to jail and knocked violently at the entrance. On the jailer appearing they demanded his keys. Alarmed at the savage aspect of his visitors, he complied, and, on obtaining the keys, they immediately proceeded to the cell of a negro who was lying in prison under a charge of rape committed on a Mrs. Pfieffer. They seized him, and then went to another cell occupied by the negro who is said to have fired the first shot at the election riot last evening. Both prisoners were greatly terrified. The band then quitted the jail, taking both negroes with them. They hung them both at a spot only a few yards distant from the jail. When the affair became known, the greatest excitement followed. Young Mr. Gilmore, who was killed in the riot last night, will be sent to Lexington. The other white man, who was also killed, will be buried this evening.<br /><br />–<em>Evening News</em>.<br /><br /><strong>The Troubles in Frankfort, Ky.<br /><br /></strong>Louisville, Ky., Aug. 8-- About 2 this morning about two hundred armed and masked men went to the jail in Frankfort and demanded the keys. The State Guard, who had been on duty there, had gone as it was supposed; all disorder was over. The jailer was compelled to surrender the keys, and the men entered and took out the negro who committed the rape on Mrs. Pfiefferd a few days ago, and also the negro Washington, who was said to be the one who fired the first shot in the riot there yesterday, in which two white men were killed. The negroes were taken about a half mile from the jail and hanged. Great excitement prevails in the community in consequence of the turbulent scenes yesterday evening and the lynching outrage this morning. No further violence is anticipated, however.</p>
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1871-08-09
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Frankfort, Franklin County
1870-1880
1871
Frankfort
Franklin County
Johnson
Micah Lynn
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Washington
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Woodford County
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Parker and Turpin, The Woodford Weekly, August 12, 1870
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Parker, James
Turpin, William
Mob, 15-20 men
Mob, masked
Mob, shooting
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<h3>The Ku-Klux</h3>
<p><b>Grim Death Among Us<br /><br /></b></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have to record the doings of the “King of Terrors” among us-- king of terror and terror of kings; the doings of Death. He came ghastly, if reports be true; and the work he did appeared ghastly enough on yesterday morning. He came on horses in ghastly form-- in the shape of men, but no visages of men men displayed; he came with white veil over the face; with visor up. What he left for the shocked and bewildered gaze of all beholders were the stiff forms of Will Turpin and Jim Parker, two negroes of Versailles, who must have made themselves obnoxious to his rule.<br /><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Turpin was a Methodist preacher, who caused a split in a colored congregation in this place a year or so ago, and who with his followers, formed a new society of his own and built a house of worship a quarter of a mile from town, in a negro settlement on Clifton road, near the cheese factory. Turpin had the reputation of being a dictator among the negroes-- a leader of iron will. When a portion of his followers at one time elected a political deputation to Frankfort, which he did not like, he set about the constituting of another delegation more to his taste; and two delegations of n----rs went on one and the same errand. Lately, if reports be true, he has been subjecting his flock to military drill in his chapel. He appeared to be about 45 years old; an ugly, repulsive negro, of the lower stratum of the cornfield variety.<br /><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jim Parker is [?] as a man of no force of any sort hardly, but full of evil designs, and a pliant tool in the hands of the crafty. He was about 40 years old.<br /><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The verdict of the jury summoned by Dr. Redd the Coroner, was to the effect that Turpin “came to his death from wounds inflicted by fire arms in the hands of a party of unknown men in mask, who came and left on horseback.”<br /><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The verdict in Parker’s case was that he “came to death from wounds inflicted by fire arms in the hands of a party of unknown men in mask, who came and left on horseback.”<br /></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The most of the witnesses were negroes, and they testify that there must have been at least fifteen or twenty men among the strange visitors, all on horses.</span></p>
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Woodford County Library History Room
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The Woodford Weekly
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1870-08-12
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Micah Lynn
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Versailles, Woodford County
1870
1870-1880
Micah Lynn
Parker
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Turpin
Versailles
Woodford County
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Mason County
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Sanders, Louisville Courier-Journal, March 12, 1917
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Sanders, William
Charge, attempted murder
Mob, shooting
Mob, 300 members
Description
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<h3>Negro, Defying Posse, Killed</h3>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Maysville Chief of Police Among Five Wounded— Desperado Is Surrounded In Barn On Farm— Held Pursuers At Bay<br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">Maysville, Ky., March 1– William Sanders, a negro, shot and badly wounded Chief of Police James Mackey and Charles Switzer at his home early this morning. He fled into the mountains, but was pursued by a posse and after having wounded three other men was shot to death in a barn on the farm of Thomas Malone, eight miles from here.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Chief Mackey had a warrant for the arrest of Sanders, accusing him of the theft of an overcoat. With a shotgun Sanders opened fire on the chief, who, however, grabbed the barrel just as the gun went off. Only a few of the shot struck him in the neck, inflicting several bad wounds. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">As he turned toward the pike, Charles Switzer drove up in his milk wagon. Sanders fired again at Mackey, but the full charge struck Switzer in the face. Sanders fired two more shots at Mackey, who was seriously wounded in the back of his head. His clothing literally was riddled with shot. Sanders fled into the halls and made his escape. Chief Mackey and Switzer were rushed to this city and given medical attention.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Sheriff Mike Brown formed a posse of about thirty men, which was augmented by fully 300 more men, armed with rifles and shotguns, and started in pursuit of the negro, surrounding him in a farm on the Malone farm. He held the posse back at bay, shooting at everyone who attempted to approach the barn. Joseph Owens, Fred Wells and Mike Brown were wounded by him.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Finally a rush was made for the barn, after Sanders repeatedly had refused to surrender. A volley from the rifles resulted in Sanders being killed. <br /><br /></div>
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The Courier-Journal [Louisville, Ky.]
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1917-03-12
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Micah Lynn
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Maysville, Mason County
1910-1920
1917
Mason County
Maysville
Micah Lynn
Sanders
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Sanders, Maysville Public Ledger, March 12, 1917
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Sanders, William
Charge, theft and attempted murder
Mob, shooting
Mob, 200-300 members
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<h3>Posse Kills Negro<br /><br /></h3>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>After He Wounds Five Persons With Shotgun, Including Chief of Police— Will Sanders Made To Pay The Penalty At The Hands Of A Large Crowd Of Men For Stealing An Overcoat— Charles Swisher, a Passerby Seriously Injured by a Shot in the Face By Sanders<br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">William Sanders, colored was killed by a large posse, Charles Swisher, seriously injured, and Chief Police James Mackey, Fred Wells, Joseph Owned and Deputy Sheriff Mike Brown were slightly injured, as a result of the dead man stealing an overcoat from the stable of Higgins-Slattery and Dwyer on Market street yesterday morning. The negro was shot after a hunt lasting the greater part of the day, after being surrounded in a barn near Clark Station on the L & N railroad.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>How the Trouble Started<br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">Yesterday morning about 8 o’clock, Sanders, the dead negro, went to the livery stable of Higgins, Slattery & Dwyer on Market street to feed his team and there it is claimed he stole an overcoat from the buggy of Walter Grierson of Ripley, which was standing on the street in front of the stable. The matter was reported to Mr. James Dwyer, one of the members of the firm who immediately began to investigate.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Mr. Dwyer as soon as he learned the identity of Sanders, set out for his home on East Fourth street. Upon his arrival there demanded the coat from the negro, who denied stealing the coat. Mr. Dwyer threatened to have him arrested but the man still claimed innocence. Mr. Dwyer then returned to the city and going to police headquarters swore out a warrant for Sanders, charging him with the felony.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Chief Attempts Arrest <br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">Armed with the warrant, Chief of Police James Mackey went to the home of the negro to arrest him. Mr. Mackey did not carry a gun, as it was his habit to go unarmed on Sunday, he going to church and being afraid some accident might happen. Upon his arrival at the house knocked, and the door was opened by Sander’s wife, who inquired his mission. Upon being told she called to her husband that Chief Mackey wanted him. At this moment Chief stepped into the hallway and there saw Sanders. He said, “Sanders, I have a warrant for you.” Sanders reached for his gun, which was standing close to him and raised it to shoot at the officer. Mr. Mackey grabbed at the gun to wrest it from him but the negro shot but did not injure Mr. Mackey further than severe power burns on the chin and neck.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Borrows Pistol<br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">Mr. Mackey then ran from the house and went to the home of a neighbor of the man to borrow a gun. After several attempts he secured a revolver and returned to the scene to capture the armed man.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Sanders saw the chief coming and raised his gun to shoot. The officer flourished the revolver and called to him to drop the gun. The negro shot again, one of the small shot taking effect in the chief’s breast and another in his forehead. The chief attempted to use his revolver but the weapon had become rusty, through disuse and he turned to retreat. The negro shot again, one of the shot this time taking refuge in the chief’s neck. The wounded man turned again tried the revolver with better results. He shot once, the negro yelled and ducked behind a barn.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Shoots Milkman<br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">Charles Swisher, a milkman in the employ of Mr. William H. Newell of the Fleming pike, happened to pass along the road at this time and was ordered to stop by Sanders. The horse, Mr. Swisher was driving became frightened and started to run, when the negro shot at him, the contents of the shell, striking the gentleman in the face.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Sanders then ran out the Fleming like to the crossroads, and started out the Hill City Pike. Mr. Mackey asked Mr. James Dwyer to return to the city and get some arms and ammunition and to sound the alarm. The negro was followed by Messrs. Neal Dwyer and Max Middleman in automobiles out the pike.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Injured Man Cared For<br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">Mr. Swisher, who was thought to have been seriously wounded at first was hastily taken to the office of Dr. G. L. Howard on Sutton street where his wounds were dressed. After a thorough examination it was found that he was not seriously injured.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Chief Mackey came to the city and directed a posse which direction to take before securing medical aid. He was taken to the office of Dr. S. H. Harover. After being looked after he summoned a number of men and took up the trail after the negro.</div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Posse Goes After Negro <br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">As soon as it was learned that the two men had been shot a posse was formed by Deputy Sheriff Mike Brown and they took up the trail of the negro, going out the Hill City Pike. Mr. Neal Dwyer, who had followed the man with Mr. Max Middleman, was compelled to return but Mr. Middleman kept on. When he arrived at the Coughlin farm on this pike, the negro gave his pursuers the slip and doubled back to the crossroads. <br /><br /><br />
<div dir="auto"><strong>Citizens Informed <br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">As soon as it was learned that the negro was heading toward the center of the county, the citizens who could be reached by telephone were informed of the shooting and were warned that the negro was armed.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">After giving the pursuers the slip, the man was next seen at Summit near the Brodt farm. The news that he had been seen in that section was telephoned to the police headquarters here and the searching parties were notified.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The negro was reported headed from Lewisburg and the citizens of that section armed themselves to capture him. He was located near the Thomas Malone farm and being pressed hard by the large number of men following him took refuge in a barn on that farm.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>The Final Scenes<br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">A large crowd congregated in front of the barn, estimated between two and three hundred people. While collecting near the barn Sanders shot into the crowd and injured three men: Deputy Sheriff Mike Brown, who was wounded in the hand; Mr. Joseph Owens of the county, wounded in the face; and Mr. Fred Wells, local restaurant man, in the cheek. All three of the gentlemen were but slightly injured.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Offers of protection were made to the negro if he would surrender but he replied, “No, damn you, if you want me come get me.” The doors of the barn were opened and those with weapons began shooting into the interior of the structure. Sanders replied with shots several times but did no damage. He remained quiet for some time and the officers investigated, thinking that he might be dead. They found him hiding and he arose and shot into the crowd. This was his last shot as several in the crowd fired at him at this moment. After some delay another investigation was made and Sanders was found dead.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The man had used up all of his ammunition before he was finally disposed of. He had been shot in the head and chest a number of times. All of the wounds were quite fresh, showing that he had not been wounded until a few moments before the finding of his dead body.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Coroner’s Verdict <br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">Coroner Charles Slack was called and held an inquest immediately. The following was the verdict of the jury:<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">We, the Coroner’s jury, duly approved by law, do here find that the man whose dead body we have pust [sic] viewed, came to his death from gun shot wounds inflicted by the sheriff’s posse while he was resisting arrest and while said posse was in the discharge of its body. We have been informed that the name of the man was Will Sanders, the place of his death being the barn of Thomas Malone on farm on the Stode Run Pike in Mason county, Ky., the time being about 4 o’clock p.m. on the 11th day of March, 1917.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">John Javier, foreman</div>
<div dir="auto">S.F. Reed</div>
<div dir="auto">A.M. Blevins </div>
<div dir="auto">J. Fred Brodt</div>
<div dir="auto">Charles Rohmiller</div>
<div dir="auto">John Buckley<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The remains were brought to Maysville later in the afternoon.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">It is to be hoped that we will never again be called upon to witness such another spectacle as that of yesterday.</div>
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<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-public-ledger/8154165/">Newspapers.com</a>
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The Public Ledger [Maysville, Ky.]
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1917-03-12
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Micah Lynn
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Maysville, Mason County
1910-1920
1917
Mason County
Maysville
Micah Lynn
Sanders
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McCracken County
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Henley and Thornhill, The Washington Post, October 17, 1916
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Brock, Henley
Thornhill, Jesse
Mob, thousands of members
Mob, hanging
Charge, rape
Charge, expressing sympathy for Henley
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<h3>Race Rioting Is Feared</h3>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Saloons at Paducah Cloesd [<em>sic</em>] After Two Men Are Lynched </strong><br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Paducah, Ky., Oct. 16– On the heels of two lynchings here today, Paducah prepared for possible further trouble tonight by ordering its saloons to remain closed, and by swearing in extra peace officers.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The authorities, it was stated, feared the lust for blood among the employes [<em>sic</em>] of a large railroad might be whetted by the summary execution during the day of two colored men, whose bodies afterward were burned. One of them was charged with attacking the wife of one of the employes; the other expressed sympathy for him and, it was said, lauded his act.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Brock Henley was charged with an attack upon Mrs. George Rose, wife of an Illinois Central shipman, at her home on the outskirts of the city Friday.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Henley was dragged from the jail and the other victim, Jesse Thornhill, was seized on the streets. Followed by a crowd estimated at 6,000 persons, large part of them in automobiles, the two men were taken to the home of the woman, about 2 miles away. While Henley was presented to her for identification the other was taken to a tree, a rope thrown over a limb, his neck encircled in a noose and an automobile hitched to the other end. As soon as Henley had been identified as the assailant of the woman he was led to the same tree and the process repeated. </div>
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The Washington Post
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1916-10-17
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Micah Lynn
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Paducah, McCracken County
1910-1920
1916
Henley
McCracken County
Micah Lynn
Paducah
Thornhill
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Owen County
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Wilson, Louisville Courier-Journal, October 11, 1873
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Wilson, Lewis
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<h3>The Latest Outrage</h3>
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<div dir="auto">The Kuklux of Owen, frightened from their native haunts by the recent vigorous prosecution of their gang in that county, seem to have betaken themselves to Franklin, where one of their cowardly exploits was perpetrated the other night. The full details, taken from the Frankfort Yeomen, are published elsewhere. A band of eighteen or twenty disguised ruffians broke into the house of a Mrs. Buntyn, in that county, with the avowed intention of “running off or killing” a young negro man employed by that lady. “The only persons in the house were Mrs. Buntyn’s daughter, a young girl of fourteen or fifteen, with her cousins, Miss Littlepage and Mr. Robert Coleman. The inmates were, of course, all asleep at the house named, and, when they awoke, in consequence of the noise made by the outlaws, they were ordered not to arise, but to lie still on pain of death.” Disappointed in not finding the object of their search, the assailants “went prying about the rooms of the house, pushing their guns under the beds occupied by the inmates in their respective apartments, and using the most diabolical and insulting language toward Mrs. Buntyn and her family.” They finally left with the threat that if the negro was allowed to come back to the place “they would return and burn down the house and kill the negro and the whole family.” The daughter recognized four or five of the scoundrels, and with her mother made the proper affidavits before the county attorney. It has been since stated that “subsequently the widow Buntyn appeared with a sister of one of the accused, and begged to have the warrants dismissed on the grounds that she would be burned out if the case went to trial.” But the attorney, Mr. Ira Julian, issued writs for the arrest of the parties accused, and proposes to prosecute them, if captured, to the full extent of the law. We trust Mr. Julian will make good his word. The arrest of the five murderers of Lewis Wilson has had the effect of putting an end, we hope and believe a final end, to the Kuklux outrages in Owen county. The arrest, conviction and severe punishment of the young ruffians engaged in this cowardly attack upon the house of a defenseless widow will put a very effectual stop to the Kuklux outrages which have for three years disgraced the county of Franklin. The local authorities of the county are no less on trial in this business than the criminals will be themselves, when captured. The operations of the law in Franklin county may now be excellently vindicated from the stigma of past remissness. We trust Mr. Julian is the man for the occasion. Judge Major, also, will have the opportunity to justify his recent protestations. </div>
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The Courier-Journal [Louisville, Ky.]
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1873-10-11
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Micah Lynn
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Franklin County; Owen County
1870-1880
1873
Franklin County
Micah Lynn
Owen County
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Henry County
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Taylor, Maysville Evening Bulletin, August 29, 1893
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Taylor, Leonard
Charge, assault
Mob, hanging
Mob, 30 members
Mob, masked
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<h3>A Very Quiet Mob</h3>
<br /><strong>They Take a Negro Out and String Him Up to a Tree</strong><br /><br />Louisville, Aug. 29-- Late at night about 30 horsemen rode into Newcastle, the county seat of Henry county, and, waking up Joel Head, the jailer, told them they had a prisoner.<br /><br />When Mr. Head made his appearance with the keys, the visitors, most of whom were seen to be masked, after a fashion, overpowered him and let themselves into the jail. They were after a negro named Leonard Taylor, who was also known as Dennis Goff.<br /><br />Securing their man they took him about a quarter of a mile out on the road to Franklinton and strung him up to an oak tree. The lynching was conducted with as much order as was possible with the business at hand.<br /><br />The crime which aroused the party into action was his brutal and unprovoked assault upon an Italian boy peddler. It occurred a week ago at Franklinton, a little place seven or eight miles from Newcastle, towards the river. The negro struck the boy over the head, fracturing his skull. He was brought to this city, which was his home, and the people of Franklinton learned Sunday that he had died.
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The Evening Bulletin [Maysville, Ky.]
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1893-08-29
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Micah Lynn
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Franklinton; New Castle, Henry County
1890-1900
1893
Franklinton
Henry County
Micah Lynn
New Castle
Taylor
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Macklin, Louisville Courier-Journal, July 8, 1868
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Macklin, Jim
Charge, rape
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<h3>The Pulpit and the Bar</h3>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Father Lambert Young— Letter from Hon. John L. Scott to Judge Ballard</strong><br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The case of Father Lamber Young drags, and will not be finally disposed of for two or three months to come. He was fined fifty dollars and costs by Judge Ballard, day before yesterday, for contempt of court, and held in a large sum to answer on the 14th or October. He has paid his fine, given bond as required, and yesterday returned to Frankfort. We give below a copy of the letter addressed to Judge Ballard by Hon. John Scott, Commonwealth’s Attorney of the Eighth Judicial District of Kentucky, which letter Father Young’s legal advisers asked leave to read to the court. The privilege, we believe, was refused, whereupon they sought and obtained permission to file it with other documentary evidence. It speaks for itself:<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Frankfort, Ky., June 11, 1868</div>
<div dir="auto">Hon. Bland Ballard:<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">As Reverend Lambert Young, the Catholic priest of this place, is now confined in jail at Louisville, charged with contempt of your court in declining to answer certain inquiries before the grand jury concerning the breaking the jail, and hanging a negro man in Frankfort last winter by a mob, I deem it due to Father Young, as well as to all concerned, to state the circumstances under which he went to the jail to endeavor to disperse the mob and prevent the black man from being hung. What effect these facts will have upon the question of privilege claimed by the priest will be for your honor to determine.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">About noon of the day preceding the hanging of the colored man, I learned that the Irish friends of the girl said to have been violated were mediating the violence, and that they would probably attempt to break the jail and hang him that night. I went to a number of the leading Irishmen of the city, and besought them to lend their aid in an effort to quell the mob spirit, so that the law might take its course. Quite a number of them promised to do so, and about supper time I began to think the effort had been successful.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">About 8 o’clock at night I saw persons gathering about the jail, and at once perceived that the crowd was no other than a mob collecting. to break the jail and hang the colored man, Jim Macklin.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">I at once determined to send for Father Young, and request him to use his priestly office and influence in an effort to disperse the mob. He boarded less than a square from my residence. I sent for him. He immediately came to my room. I told him that I was Commonwealth’s Attorney for the district I felt that my official duty compelled me to use every effort in my power to prevent the mob violence that was about to be perpetrated at the jail, and the last and only effort remaining in my judgement was to get him to go into the crowd, and in his capacity as priest to address the mob and dissuade them from the perpetration of the contemplated outrage. He at once consented to do so, and started from my house for that purpose. I feel assured that but for his priestly office he would have been permitted to enter the jail yard and address the infuriated mob.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Whether these facts are sufficient to exhonerate [sic] him from deposing as to whom or what he saw at the jail, is a matter about which I express no opinion, but merely wish to state the circumstances under which he went to the jail, being quite sure that he went there at my request, as a civil officer, for the sole purpose of using his priestly office and influence to disperse the mob, and thus preserve the life of the unfortunate colored man.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">I volunteer these statements in behalf of the priest, who is my personal friend, because he went to the jail to quell the mob at my request as a civil officer.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Very respectfully,<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">John L. Scott</div>
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The Courier-Journal [Louisville, Ky.]
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1868-07-08
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Micah Lynn
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Frankfort, Franklin Co.
1865-1870
1868
Frankfort
Franklin County
Macklin
Micah Lynn
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Henderson County
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Buckner, Owensboro Twice-A-Week Messenger, December 1, 1915
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Buckner, Ellis
Charge, attempted rape
Mob, hanging
Mob, 30 members
Mob, masked
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<h3>Negro Hanged By a Henderson Mob</h3>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Ellis Buckner Lynched While Jailer Is Held Prisoner— Quick Action Follows Arrest on Girl’s Complaint— He Attacks Mary Hardin— Crowd Disbands After the Prisoner Is Hanged to Tree at River Front</strong><br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Henderson, Ky., Nov. 29– Early on the Sabbath morning a mob took Ellis Buckner, a negro, from the jail and swung him to a willow tree on the banks of the Ohio river, not three blocks away. Buckner was charged with detaining against her will Miss Kate Hardin while on her way home from work Friday night.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">So quietly did the mob accomplish its work that not even the police were aware anything had happened until the victim was swinging to a limb,<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Jailer Pleads In Vain </strong><br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">It was shortly before 2 o’clock when Jailer Abel was called from his room and informed that Buckner was to be hanged. In vain did the jailer plead for the prisoner. Five husky men with masks over their faces walked into the corridor and compelled Deputy Grayson to unlock the door. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">After the negro was delivered the mob went to the corner of the jail yard and then walked across Central Park to Washington street, down Washington to the river and one square south, where the hanging took place. Not a sound was heard from any number of the mob, which numbered around thirty men.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Jailer Notified </strong><br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">To a reporter Mr. Abel made the following statement:<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“My wife called me shortly before 2 o’clock and said someone was ringing the door bell. Thinking that maybe Alva Gibson, who is related to my wife, was dead and I was wanted. I went downstairs with only my night clothes on. As I opened the door two men pushed their feet inside to prevent it being closed. One man said they had ‘come for that negro.’ <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“I said: ‘Men, you are not going to hang him for that offense, are you?’ He replied that they were and that, while it was not their purpose to harm anyone about the jail, yet they would have the man at any cost. He said: ‘You need not make a noise, as we have the building guarded on every side and from top to bottom.’<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Promise Exacted </strong><br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“I then asked if I could get back into the house, as I was standing on the stone with my bare feet. One said ‘yes, if you will make one promise and that is that you will stay in the building and will not in any way attempt to prevent our getting the negro.’ This I promised to do, stepped back and closed the door.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“I walked to the rear door and looked out. I saw two men there. I went to another door and started out, when two men, one with a gun and the other with a revolver, ordered me back. I then thought I would slip out at the side door and get to police headquarters. When I started out two men reminded me I had promised to remain in the building. As the five men were leaving the jail office with Buckner I slipped across the porch to the rear door of the deputy’s room. One of the men saw me and remarked that I had better keep quiet.” Mr. Abel said he was prevented from using the telephone.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Join Procession <br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">Mr. Abel said while he was the front door talking to the men he saw two automobiles, and possibly three, on Washington street at the side of the park. He said there were men scattered through the park who fell in line as the procession moved in the direction of Washington street.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The mob waited until the lights in Central Park had been turned out. Officer Biggs said he turned out the lights about midnight, as usual, not thinking a mob would appear. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">No sooner had the police been notified by the jailer of what had happened than they began a search for the body. Chief Graves was the first to find it, dangling to a willow tree. Coroner Davis was notified and ordered Chief Graves and Officer Head to cut it down. It was removed to Klee’s undertaking establishment on Main street, where the inquest was held at 10 o’clock.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Verdict Returned <br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">The coroner’s jury, after hearing the evidence, returned the following verdict:<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">We, the jury, find the body before us to be that of Ellis Buckner, and that he came to his death at the hands of persons unknown to us.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">W.H. Stewart, Aaron Locket, Pete Sommers, Walter Vickers, L. Elam and Thomas Johnson; W.H. Davis, coroner.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Jailer Abel, Chief Graves and Officer Head testified before the jury. Jailer Abel expressed regret that he had been forced to give up the prisoner. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The body was removed to the home of his mother, Dicey Buckner, in Shelbyville, at 12:30 o’clock. The funeral was conducted Monday afternoon.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Quietly Disband</strong><br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Peace and quiet prevailed in the city when the dawn broke and persons were apprised of the fact that a lynching had taken place during the early morning. Crowds of curious persons visited the stationhouse and the scene of the hanging during the day. A large crowd gathered in front of the undertaking establishment, where the inquest was held. Many obtained pieces of rope as souvenirs while others cut off pieces of the tree. Tonight there was little of the three [sic] left.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">After accomplishing its purpose the mob disbanded as quietly as it had formed. Not a sound was heard in the city, and no one would have suspected a tragedy had been enacted during the dark hours. The men wore masks over their faces, made of handkerchiefs from the eyes down, and their hats were pulled low. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">It was after 4 o’clock before any information about the affair leaked out.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Charge Made By Girl </strong><br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The crime for which Buckner was lynched was atrocious. He was charged in a warrant sworn to by Miss Katie Hardin, with detaining a female against her will. Miss Hardin, who is bookkeeper at the Kentucky bakery made the following statement when seen by a reporter this afternoon:<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“I left the bakery about twenty minutes before 7 o’clock. As I was walking up Elm street to my home I passed the befriended at the bridge on Fourth street. No sooner had I passed than he arose and walked along behind me. When I was near the alley between Fourth and Fifth streets, the negro grabbed me by the throat and dragged me into the alley. I have three loud screams before he shut off my breath. He said to me, “If you scream any more I’ll fix you so you will not scream again.’<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Kicked and Screamed</strong><br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“He then put his hands over my mouth and prevented me from making any noise. He held me to the ground and ripped open my coat. About that time Mrs. Henry Robinson, who lives nearby and had heard my screams, opened the front door, and the negro jumped up and ran down the alley. I went to the power plant across the street and called for the police. Before he left me the negro kicked me three times and broke my umbrella over my head. He got my ring and muff, but I knew he was not trying to rob me. I lost my scarf pin while in the scuffle.’<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Miss Hardin said she had seen the negro several days during the week as she was on her way home.</div>
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The Twice-A-Week Messenger [Owensboro, Ky.]
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1915-12-01
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Micah Lynn
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Henderson, Henderson County
1910-1920
1915
Buckner
Henderson
Henderson County
Micah Lynn
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