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Shelby County
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Pulliam, Lexington Herald-Leader, July 21, 1891
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Pulliam, Sam
Charge, rape
Mob, hanging
Mob, 50 members
Description
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<h3>Took A Brute’s Life </h3>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>An Enraged Mob Hangs A Shelbyville Rapist— His Foul Crime Sets a Whole Community On Fire, and Hundreds of Men Surround the Field Where it Was Committed, But Only Catch Him Later</strong><br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Shelbyville, Ky., July 20– Sam Pulliam, a large and burly negro, committed rape on Mrs. Thomas Glenn, wife of a prominent farmer living one mile from town yesterday at 10 o’clock. The negro had been working for Mr. Glenn, and taking advantage of Mr. Glenn’s absence, enticed his wife out in the field under the pretext of some one stealing her chickens. When they reached a large hemp field the brute sprang on Mrs. Glenn, and choking her into insensibility committed his hellish designs. As soon as the news reached town an armed posse of one hundred men started in pursuit. Telegrams were sent in every direction. The neighborhoods were notified and aroused until the eastern part of the county was literally filled with armed men. Late dispatches state that Chief of Police Retherford had caught Pulliam near Avenstoke, a small station on the Louisville Southern, seventeen miles from here, and jailed the prisoner at Lawrenceburg. There is a great excitement here and Pulliam will undoubtedly hang if brought here, as there are large crowds on the street awaiting his arrival. Mrs. Glenn’s condition is considered extremely critical by her physicians.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The report of the fiend’s attempt had spread like wildfire, and a short time afterward the hemp patch was surrounded by over one hundred armed men. Every man was armed with a pistol and every tenth man was supplied with a long piece of hemp rope. Pulliam got away, however, though the place was thought to be completely surrounded. He crawled along the side of a rail fence for several hundred yards, and escaped across the Frankfort pike.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">He was seen as he crossed this road, and pursued, but he had a good start, and for the time left the searchers in great mystery. After this, the citizens broke up in parties of five and six and started to hunt for the negro in every direction. The excitement was so great that nearly all of the stores in Shelbyville shut up and business of all kinds, except man-hunting, was stopped. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">After nightfall Sheriff Long secured about twenty men as guards. Pulliam was taken out of jail and placed in a buggy, the Sheriff sitting on one side of him and the police chief on the other. A crowd of curious people followed. When the officers had gotton [sic] about two and one-half miles on the road from Lawrenceburg, a mob of fifty men overtook them, and as resistance would have been foolish, the negro was quickly lynched.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Pulliam is a large, black negro who had been employed by Mr. Glenn for some time. He has a wife and several children living near Johnstonville. Pulliam did not bear a bad reputation.</div>
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Lexington Herald-Leader
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1891-07-21
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Micah Lynn
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Lawrenceburg, Anderson County; Shelbyville, Shelby County
1890-1900
1891
Lawrenceburg
Micah Lynn
Pulliam
Shelby County
Shelbyville
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Boyle County
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Tarpin, Junction City Tribune, April 27, 1876
Subject
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Tarpin, Jim
Charge, rape
Mob, hanging
Mob, masked
Mob, 4 members
Description
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<h3></h3>
<br />At Danville, Ky., on the night of the 15th, four masked men entered the Jail and took therefrom Jim Tarpin, who was imprisoned for committing an outrage on a little girl at Perryville. The next morning Tarpin's body was found suspended from a tree.
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Junction City Tribune [Junction City, Kansas]
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1876-04-27
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Micah Lynn
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Perryville; Danville, Boyle County
1870-1880
1876
Boyle County
Danville
Micah Lynn
Perryville
Tarpin
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Warren County
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Harper, Lexington Weekly Leader, December 29, 1892
Subject
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Harper, Bob
Charge, rape
Mob, hanging
Description
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<h3>Bob Harper Dies</h3>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>At the Hands of a Mob at Bowling Green— Sudden Ending to the Inquiry in Progress— The Prisoner Captured in the Court House— And Hung From a Beech street in the Fair Grounds<br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">Bowling Green, Ky., Dec. 28– Bob Harper has paid the penalty for the assault upon Miss Anderson, and the people feel that the terrible crime has been avenged.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">When court opened this morning the witnesses for the Commonwealth were examined and Hon. J.C. Sims had just announced that the Commonwealth would rest. Judge Delaney had retired to the witness room to consult his witness, when a mob entered the court room armed with guns.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">It was just 11:40 o’clock a.m. The prisoner ran to The Leader correspondent who was standing near at hand and dropped at his feet pleading for protection. The mob leaders grabbed the poor wretch and dragged him from the court room. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">It was announced that the hanging would take place at the fair grounds, which is just one mile from the court house. The march continued up State street and out Twelfth to the grounds.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Just inside the gate there is a large beech tree, and under this was placed a wagon. Harper’s feet and hands were securely tied, and the noose placed around his neck. He was then lifted to the wagon seat and allowed to make a statement. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">He stoutly protested his innocence, and died game. His coolness was remarkable. The wagon was pulled from under him at 11:58 o’clock and he was pronounced to be dead fifty minutes later.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">A placard was then placed upon the body which read: “This body must hang till tomorrow at noon, December 29. By order of the Committee.” <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Not a shot was fired, and the crowd dispersed quietly. There was no boisterous conduct, the mob being composed of sober and orderly men.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Along the streets leading to the fair grounds the ladies rushed to the windows and much excitement was created in the homes.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Just before the hanging, while preparations were being made, Harper dictated this statement to several newspaper men, which was written out by the Louisville Post correspondent and to which he added his signature.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“I have done all I can do in this world to prove my innocence. I am innocent, and I will die with that on my lips I believe I am saved. Have never done anybody any harm. Ask my folks to bury me in the cemetery.”<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">ROBERT HARPER<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">From the courthouse to the scene of the hanging your correspondent tried to pursuance him to confess if guilty, but he stoutly protested his innocence.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">A committee of citizens went to the Anderson residence this morning and was told by Miss Anderson’s father and family that they believed Harper guilty. This determined the angry crowd to take the law into their own hands. </div>
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The Weekly Leader [Lexington, Ky.]
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1892-12-29
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Micah Lynn
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Bowling Green, Warren County
1890-1900
1892
Bowling Green
Harper
Micah Lynn
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Carlisle County
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Miller, The Hickman Courier, July 14, 1893
Subject
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Miller, C.J.
Charge, rape
Mob, hanging
Charge, murder
Description
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<h3>Vengeance </h3>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>C.J. Miller, the Murderer of the Ray Sisters, Hanged <br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">Bardwell, Ky., July 8– C.J. Miller, the mulatto charged with outraging and murdering Mary Ray and her little sister, and whom the people of Bardwell had resolved to burn at the stake, was saved by the father of the murdered girls from a death by fire Friday, only to be hanged by a mob and mutilated and cremated after death.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Miller was arrested in Missouri and was brought back to Bird’s Point by the mob of Kentuckians who had pursued him. Friday morning he was taken to Wickliffe, the county seat of Carlisle county, for examination.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The evidence against him seemed to be overwhelming and conclusive, though he protested his innocence, and at 11 o’clock Friday morning he was brought to Bardwell, the scene of the crime.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">A pile of timber ten feet high had been built near the station and upon this it was proposed to burn the unhappy man to death. As soon as the train came to a standstill the crowd began to shout for the prisoner. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“Burn him! burn him!” was the cry. As they entered the first car to search for Miller, Sheriff John Hudson and his prisoner escaped by the rear car and hurried away. They were seen, and in a moment the mob was yelling at their heels. Into the street poured the howling mob, while a detachment which had made a detour marched down the street and headed off the officer and the Negro. Seeing that it was useless to resist, the sheriff turned back, took Miller to the pile of timber, upon which Miller was compelled to clamber. The sheriff and guards followed him. Immediately 5,000 people surrounded the pile, clamoring for Miller’s life. Up to this time Miller had exhibited indifference to his fate, but when standing upon that heap of timbers facing the mob, and in expectation of death in its most terrible form, he wept and silently raised his shackled hands above his head as if imploring mercy. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The Negro then addressed the crowd, saying:<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“Please be quiet, everybody. My name is C.J. Miller. I am from Springfield, Ill. My wife lives at No. 716 North Second street. I am here among you today looked upon as one of the most brutal men before the people. I stand here surrounded by men who are excited— men who are not willing to let the law take its course— and, as far as the crime is concerned, I have committed no crime, and certainly no crime grows enough to deprive me of my life and liberty. I had some rings which I bought in Bismarck of a jewel peddler. I paid him $1 50 for them. I left Springfield on the first day of July and came to Alton; from Alton I went to East St. Louis, from there to Jefferson barracks, thence to De Sota, thence to Bismarck and thence to Piedmont, thence to Poplar Bluffs, thence to Hoxie and to Jonesboro, then on a freight car to Maldon, then to Sikeston. On the day I was supposed to have committed the offense I was at Bismarck. Well, gentlemen—“<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Here he was interrupted, the mob shouting, “Let him talk,” but there was too much noise and he could not be heard.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“For God’s sake, gentlemen,” said the sheriff, “I must take this man to jail. I am bound by my oath to deliver this man to jail.”<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The mob, which had quieted by this time, shouted, “Yes, take him to jail until 3 o’clock, then we want him.” <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The prisoner descended from the horrible pile of inflammable materials and was taken to jail. At 3 o’clock the jail was surrounded by the mob. Before Miller was taken from jail Mr. Ray, who had a lingering doubt as to the guilt of Miller, proposed as a compromise with the mob that Miller be hanged. This was agreed to and a rush was made for the jail.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">As Chief of Police Manoney was just leaving the prison the mob rushed in and seized the prisoner. He was stripped and his shirt was tied around his legs. A chain was placed around his body, and, followed by a mob, he was led through the streets to a depot and lifted onto the pile.<br /><br /><br />There were shouts of "Set it on fire, burn him," but they were not heeded. The chain was taken from Miller's body and hooked around his neck. A man climbed the telegraph pole, the chain was passed to him and he made it fast to the crossarm. Other men placed a forked stick between Millers [sic] hips, lifted him several feet and allowed him to drop.<br /><br /><br />It is thought that the first fall broke his neck, but the operation was repeated. Then numerous shots were fired into his body, and he was left hanging until they were satisfied he was dead. While the body was hanging there both ears and nearly all the toes and fingers were cut from the corpse. Later the pile was fired and the body was cremated.</div>
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<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-hickman-courier-cj-miller/130698400/">Newspapers.com</a>
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The Hickman Courier
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1893-07-14
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Micah Lynn
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Bardwell, Carlisle County
1890-1900
1893
Bardwell
Carlisle County
Micah Lynn
Miller
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Fulton County
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Walker, Lexington Herald-Leader, October 13, 1908
Subject
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Walker, David
Mob, 50 members
Charge, insulting white woman
Mob, shooting
Mob, burning
Description
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<h3>Full Text</h3>
<br />
<p><strong>of Governor’s Reward Offer</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Denounces Massacre of Negro Family and Calls Upon People to Wipe Out Kentucky’s Awful Disgrace</strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following is the full text of Governor Willson’s vigorous proclamation offering a reward of $500 for the conviction of anyone of the men engaged in the massacre of the family of David Walker, a Negro, at Hickman:</span></p>
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<p><strong>Offer of Reward</strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Governor of Kentucky hereby offers a reward of five hundred dollars ($500) for the apprehension and conviction of any person and each person of the band of some fifty men who handed together and went at midnight to the little cabin home of David Walker, set fire to the cabin, and when he threw open the door pleading for mercy, he was shot to death, falling screaming to the ground; then his wife, trying to escape from the burning cabin, fled to the door holding her baby to her breast and begged the night riders for mercy, but the brutal, cowardly fiends murdered the little baby in its mother’s arms, and she fell fatally wounded with the dead baby baby clasped in her arms. Then a little girl only 5 years old was murdered while trying to escape through the door, and three other children were shot and seriously wounded.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If two or three men had gone to this poor cabin and murdered the family the crime would have shocked humanity with its revelation of the incredibly wickedness, brutality and dastardly cowardice of the three men. That a larger number, some fifty men, joined in such a crime, multiplies the cowardliness and wickedness fifty fold, and makes every member of the band guilty of murder in the first degree, of the basest, wickedest, the most cowardly and inhuman murder conceived to mortal mind.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This crime and the stain on Kentucky of the murder of four helpless prisoners at Russellville, both by bands of night riders, the outgrowth and logical result of the toleration of night-rider crimes in large districts of the State, is only one remove from civil war, and the very safety of our institutions and what we have of civilization is involved, and the only salvation for the name, honor and character of Kentucky is for the whole people to rise up in their might to save their liberty, uphold their law and mercilessly put down murder, arson, intimidation and proscription wherever they dare to show themselves. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The governor does not appeal to the people, but calls upon them to assemble in their respective neighborhoods and counties, organize and take stern, prompt and effective measures to punish every cowardly scoundrel that rides the roads to threaten his neighbors, to put an immediate end to lynching, murder and arson, and calls on the local authorities in each county to be earnest and vigilant, and offers to them the whole power of the State, or so much as each shall need, for the instant arrest and punishment of all who are guilty of these crimes, and to do everything possible to clear the name and honor of Kentucky of the shame and disgrace of such crimes.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Augustus Willson</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Governor of Kentucky </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Frankfort, Ky., Oct. 10, 1908.</span></p>
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<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/lexington-herald-leader-walker/130927544/">Newspapers.com</a>
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Lexington Herald-Leader
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1908-10-13
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Micah Lynn
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Hickman, Fulton County
1900-1910
1908
Fulton County
Hickman
Micah Lynn
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Grayson County
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Richardson, The Paducah Sun-Democrat, September 26, 1913
Subject
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Richardson, Joe
Charge, attempted rape
Mob, hanging
Description
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<h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Negro Put to Death By A Mob</span></h3>
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<p><strong>Joe Richardson Who Attempted Assault on 11-year-old Girl Is Hung in Public— Story of Child on Stand Inflamed Hearers Who Came to Jail at Midnight— Siezed [sic] Jailer and Took His Keys Away— Citizens Wake To See Body</strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leitchfield, Ky., Sept. 26– Joe Richardson, a Nashville Negro, who attempted an assault on 11-year-old Ree Goff, the daughter of Anderson Goff, was taken from his cell in the jail here and lynched at one o’clock this morning. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">His dead body was found swinging from the limb of a poplar tree in the public square when the citizens arose this morning. The identity of the members of the mob is not known, but it is supposed that they came from the neighborhood in which the crime was committed, as buggies and horses were heard passing out of town about the time the lynching took place. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to the story of jailer Jackson he was called to the door of his home at one o’clock this morning by someone who claimed to be the night watchman. Immediately as Jackson opened the door he was seized by two men and his hands tied behind him. The keys to the jail were secured and the mob repaired to the Negro’s cell and took him out after a desperate struggle.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is said there was no thought of lynching Richardson until the little girl at the examining trial told the story of the attempted assault and gave such a story that the people were aroused. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The attempt at assault was made while the little girl and her six year old brother were on their way to school. The Negro stepped out of a place of concealment and grabbed the girl whereupon the younger child ran from the scene to call help. The Negro was frightened away before accomplishing his purpose. </span></p>
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<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-paducah-sun-democrat-joe-richardson/129796967/">Newspapers.com</a>
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The Paducah Sun-Democrat
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1913-09-26
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Micah Lynn
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Leitchfield, Grayson County
1910-1920
1913
Grayson County
Leitchfield
Micah Lynn
Richardson
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Hancock County
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Bushrod, Louisville Courier-Journal, September 27, 1897
Subject
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Bushrod, Raymond
Mob, 500-800 members
Charge, rape
Mob, hanging
Mob, unmasked
Description
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<h3><strong>A Rope</strong></h3>
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<p><strong>And Willing Hands and Judge Lynch’s Court Was Over— Negro Ravisher Hanged— An Unmasked Mob At Hawesville Took Bushrod’s Life— The Sheriff Was Outwitted— Was Just About To Remove the Criminal To Owensboro For Safe-Keeping— Confessed and Then Prayed</strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hawesville, Ky., Sept. 26– Special Judge Lynch held a large court here to-day, but there was only one case on the docket. Raymond Bushrod, negro, aged twenty, third time ravisher, is in eternity, sent there by the hands of an outraged community as a reward for his crime. When the Courier-Journal’s correspondent left the fragmentary mob at 3 o’clock this morning and the local telegraph office had closed it was evident that the rumblings and the mutterings of the people were only a forecast of the awful storm that was gathering from all points. Never before in the history of this county had the people been so aroused as over this black and diabolical crime, although the James gang, the Youngers, McGruder, Sue Mundy, Bill Davison and the fearful Colter held sway during the war. Jails and private institutions have been blown to pieces, feuds have been organized and shot and killed for the game of politics, yet there has never been an occurrence that has caused such wild excitement as that which happened at 5 o’clock this quiet Sabbath afternoon on Court square, even under the shadow of the principal churches of the city.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The people in their homes knew of the crime and knew the guilty man was in jail. They saw the clouds, heard the moan of the winds and knew the storm would soon burst.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The present officers of the city and county are standing for re-election, and never before had such responsibilities upon their hands. They knew that resistance would be fatal, for in the unmasked faces before them they saw and recognized men from all parts of the county who had stood for all that was good for a lifetime. They were bewildered.</span></p>
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<p><strong>Effort to Save His Neck,</strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Judge John Adair communicated with Judge Owen at Owensboro. The Circuit Judge wired to get the negro on a train for either Owensboro or Louisville if possible; if not, to have the Sheriff place a heavy guard about the jail. The Louisville train arrived here at 4:40 o’clock, and Judge Adair and the Sheriff knew they dared not get the prisoner on it. They then concluded to try the Owensboro train, which arrives at 3:04 o’clock after dark. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the meantime the mob had placed spies at every road and at every man’s ear, and they discovered the plot. A rumor reached them that militia from Owensboro would arrive on the 4:40 train. They placed sentinels on Lovers’ Leap, commanding a view of the trains. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The soldiers are coming,” was the cry, and then there was hurrying to and fro. There was death in the air. The Sheriff, by the Judge’s order, gave the alarm that the negro had escaped from jail, and 500 people rushed pell-mell down the streets and across the hills in pursuit.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The mob has been deceived,” cried the older and meeker citizens. “The officers will save him for trial.” </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But not so. The Sheriff and assistants rushed to the jail and got the negro out, but he mistook their motive and held back, thinking the officers were part of the mob. The hesitation cost him his life. The mob soon saw through the scheme and came swiftly to the jail. The Sheriff’s men stepped aside and the guilty, trembling wretch was taken to the court square. There was no rope at hand. The suspense was indescribable. Eight hundred people were on the square, men, women and children— many from the neighboring Indiana towns. These towns were more excited even than staid old Hawesville.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“What have you to say?” asked the leader.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I am the man,” said the wretch, “and this is my third offense.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Rope,” “rope,” shouted half a thousand.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Here’s a rope,” said one.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Give the man time to pray,” said Benjamin Roberts, the father of the outraged girl.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The negro then prayed and confessed several times. The rope was out around his neck and several men climbed a tree next to the fence, threw the rope across a limb, and everybody made for it. In an instant Hancock county’s only ravisher was suspended between earth and Heaven, and half a dozen strong men were pulling down on his legs. He died quickly. </span></p>
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<p><strong>Had Committed Other Crimes</strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Raymond Bushrod, the victim of today’s proceedings, is twenty years old and a native of Rockport, Ind. A few months ago he was arrested here for stealing, and was only released a few days ago. He was driven out of town yesterday, and while on his way home overtook his victim. He came to his death exactly at the same hour to-day that he made his assault yesterday.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A few years ago Bushrod criminally assaulted a white girl in Rockport, but nothing came of it. Later he ravished his aunt, a woman over sixty years old. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is safe to say that this Hawesville mob breaks all records. It did its work by daylight and on Sunday. Not a drunken man was to be seen anywhere, not an oath was heard, not a mask on any face. Nothing— nothing but quiet, plain people of the hills and valleys who had assembled with the solemn vow to protect their homes. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After the hanging thousands of people viewed the black corpse as it swung to and fro. And there was not one in all the crowd who said the hangmen were guilty. All the negroes in the town were ready and willing to take part, had it been necessary, many negro women watching the execution with seeming pleasure.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No one here blames any officer of the city or county, as a regiment could not have stayed the work. City Marshal Thomas took the prisoner from the jail at 2 o’clock this morning and guarded him with a strong posse in the cemetery on the hill, where no one would suspect the hiding place. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The father and friends of the negro’s victim express themselves as well pleased with the work. Not that it helped the suffering girl, but that it may be the means of saving other homes from the blight. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A stranger in the city, so and old and bent that he could scarcely totter, twirled the negro’s feet as the body hung from the tree, raised his hat and said: “This is in defense of our wives and daughters; may God bless the braves.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Half a dozen girls from neighboring Indiana towns pushed through the mob and stood within ten feet of the spot while the hanging took place. Strangers who have since entered the city have almost torn away the tree, seeking souvenis [sic].</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Coroner’s jury rendered the following verdict;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We, the jury, find that the deceased came to his death from the hands of an unknown mob.” </span></p>
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<p><strong>Cloverport People Disappointed</strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cloverport, Ky., Sept. 26– Some twenty-five persons were at the depot this evening waiting for the 7:39 o’clock west-bound train for Hawesville to be present at the proposed lynching. The news came just before train time that the negro had been hanged. There was great excitement prevailing here over the affair by both white and colored, who are in sympathy with the lynchers. </span></p>
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Mays, Lexington Herald-Leader, January 16, 1902
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Mays, Jim
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Charge, attempted rape
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<h3>Mob’s Work</h3>
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<p dir="auto"><strong>Negro Hanged Near Springfield, Ky., for a Terrible Crime -- It Was An Orderly Job</strong></p>
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<div dir="auto">Springfield, Ky., Jan. 11– Jim Mays, a Negro, charged with assaulting Lulu Jeans, daughter of Joseph Jeans, one of the most prominent farmers in the county, near Simmstown, six miles from here, was hanged by a mob at an early hour this morning.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">His body was found hanging to a tree in the High School yard this morning. The mob came into town quietly about 2 a.m. and after arousing Jailer Catlett demanded the keys to the jail. Their request was refused, however, and they immediately broke in. The found Mays cowering in his cell and begging the other prisoners to protect him. The leaders of the mob took charge of the Negro and dragged Mays to the High School yard, where he was speedily strung up to a tree.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">It is not known in what direction the men departed or where the mob dispersed. Neither are any of the members of the mob known to the officials. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Arrested By Victim’s Brothers <br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">The Negro was arrested and brought here Wednesday. He was charged with attempting to commit a criminal assault upon a young white girl in the Simms neighborhood, this county. She was returning home from neighbors when she was attacked by the Negro. She fought him stubbornly and her screams brought two of her brothers to her rescue. The [sic] pursued Mays and succeeded in capturing him after a long chase. The brothers beat the Negro severely and were only prevented from killing him by the arrival of some farmers who turned the Negro over to a Constable.</div>
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1900-1910
1902
Mays
Micah Lynn
Simmstown
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Petty, Louisville Courier-Journal, May 10, 1884
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Petty, Miles
Charge, rape
Mob, hanging
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<h3>They Got Him,</h3>
<div dir="auto"><strong>After Being Thrice Baffled in Former Attempts, a Determined Mob at Last Treats Miles Petty to the <br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>Death of the Dastard<br /><br /></strong></div>
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<div dir="auto">Elizabethtown, May 9– Last night about 1 o’clock sixteen masked and armed men rode into town, hitched their horses in the court-house yard and proceeded to the jail. The Jailer, Mr. Jos. Sweets, hearing a voice at the jail, went to the door, when a crowd rushed toward him, discharging their firearms promiscuously, some of the balls breaking windows in the jail and others entering the Jailer’s house. In an instant the Jailer was seized by the collar, and pistols were thrust into his face with the command, “Give us the keys or Miles Petty.” Then a shot-gun was discharged which the Jailer thinks was aimed at him. The Jailer informed them that the keys were in the house; when they said “get them damned quick,” and dragged the Jailer in doors. Mrs. Sweets, the Jailer’s wife, handed them the keys. In five seconds they were unlocking the doors; but, being unable to unlock one of the inner doors, had the Jailer brought at the pistol’s mouth. But just as he arrived, they succeeded in opening the door, and, seizing on their victim, they put him on horseback and hurried him away. This morning Miles Petty’s body was found swinging to a limb by the side of the Nashville pike, about three-quarters of a mile from town, with a card pinned on his coat, on which was written:<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>“Warning!</strong></div>
<div dir="auto"><strong>“Father’s Jury, May 9, 1:15 A.M.”</strong><br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The news spread rapidly, and in a few minutes the road was filled with people going to the scene. The body was cut down by B.R. Young, the Coroner, and after the inquest was brought back here for burial.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Miles Petty, some time ago, accomplished a nameless crime upon the person of Miss Cora Vannert, a young lady living in the south end of this county, and was arrested and brought here and placed in jail. He was to have been taken back to Sonoro [sic], where his examining trial was to be had, when the officers learned that a mob had been organized to hang him. They went down on the train alone, leaving the prisoner here. When the train arrived at Nolin it was boarded by a mob which began a search for the prisoner, but not find him, made their oaths to come to town for him. The officers returned and had the prisoner hurried off through the country to meet the train to Louisville, where the prisoner was sent for safe keeping. The mob came in town that night and followed the officers so close they were compelled ta [sic] take to the woods until hey [sic] reached Brandenburg, where they crossed over into Indiana and reached Louisville in safety.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The grand jury returned an indictment against the negro, when he was brought out here, his case set for the trial and the prisoner returned to Louisville. He was brought back here secretly night before last for trial, and but few people here knew he was in jail at this place until this morning when they learned he had been hung. <br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">Many good citizens here denounce the conduct of the mob as an outrage, they he should be taken from jail and hanged just as the court was about to sit on his case. The jury had been summoned, and the trial was to have begun this morning, but at the time he was to have been put on the stand he was placed in his coffin, having been tried and executed by Judge Lynch. The excitement had about died out and a mob was little expected. The treatment of the Jailer last night was outrageous, and is so looked upon by all the good citizens of this place. </div>
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Elizabethtown, Nolin, Sonora, Hardin County
1880-1890
1884
Elizabethtown
Hardin County
Micah Lynn
Nolin
Petty
Sonora
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Petty, Owensboro Messenger, May 27, 1884
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Petty, Miles
Charge, rape
Mob, hanging
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<h3> Fleeing from Judge Lynch <br /><br /></h3>
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<div dir="auto"><strong>An Exodus of Negros from Hardin County— Lynching of Miles Petty the Alleged Cause</strong><br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">[Louisville Commercial]<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">The colored people of Hardin county, Ky., will make a general exodus to Kansas. Two hundred of them have made arrangements to form a colony near Atchison, and others will locate further west in the same State. An advance party of twelve passed through the city yesterday. They dropped in at the St. Louis Air-line office, and while there attracted the attention of a reporter for the Commercial.<br /><br /></div>
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<div dir="auto">“Hardin county’s too hot for the black man,” said one, as he mopped the perspiration off his brow with a calico handkerchief. “When they said Miles Petty outraged that Miss Vannort, and the mob took him from the jail and lynched him, without giving him a trial, we saw that n___ers wasn’t wanted, and they their necks wasn’t safe. We called a meeting and decided to go somewhere, and now we are bound for Kansas. There’s about 300 of us in all, and we are trying to get fixed up at our new homes in time to make a crop this year.” </div>
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<div dir="auto">“How many colored men are there in Hardin county?”</div>
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<div dir="auto">“About 600 now, but by the time we get moved there won’t be many left. You see we have only been working this up since the 9th of May, the night after Petty was lynched, and all our people don’t know about it yet.” </div>
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<div dir="auto">“Are the people of Hardin county hostile to your race?”</div>
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<div dir="auto">“I don’t know whether you call it hostile or not, but when they take to lynching n___ers for nothing it’s time to move.” </div>
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<div dir="auto">Col. Sid. Gates, the Air-line ticket agent, said that it was true that some 200 or 300 negroes had made arrangements for transportation to Atchison, Kan., over his line. </div>
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The Owensboro Messenger
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1884-05-27
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Hardin County
1880-1890
1884
Hardin County
Micah Lynn
Petty
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