7 10 259 https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/276c866af83d4eb1dfe270ea5aff6602.jpg 8895d946549e9195c4cb158c8ac0a714 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Pike County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hill, Winchester News, December 18, 1908 Subject The topic of the resource Hill, Elmer Charge, murder Mob, hanging Description An account of the resource FULL STORY OF HILL LYNCHING Confesses Crime and Mob Sings Hymn Before Hanging Murderer. DANVILLE, Ky., Dec. 18. – Elmer Hill, confessed child-murdered, paid the death penalty for his crimes Wednesday night. As the hangmen were looping the rope around his neck, he broke down and confessed his guilt, declaring that death was his just punishment and requested that the mob which had hi min charge sing one of the old familiar songs that he had often heard in the little meeting house at Russell Springs and then offer prayer for his soul. The mob leader stopped proceedings and the determined men, at the request of the prisoner, sang, “Jesus Lover of My Soul,” while one of the members followed with prayer. Hill then told his executioners that he was ready to die and his body was jerked into the air. The rope being securely fastened the mob quietly dispersed. Mob Members Give Details. Persons residing in the vicinity where Hill was hanged heard the singing and praying, and the exact facts afterwards leaked out from members of the mob, which is backed by the whole citizenship of Adair and Russel counties. When the mob appeared at the jail in Monticello, Hill prayed to his Savior, begged for mercy and vigorously declared his innocence of the awful crime, but deaf ears were turned to his entreaties. He continues to plead innocence until the rope had been looped around his neck. The crime for which Hill was hanged was one of the most heinous ever committed in Central Kentucky, and stirred Russell and surrounding counties to fever heat. Victim His Own Cousin. On Tuesday evening of last week he intercepted his cousin, twelve-year-old Mamie Womack, on the county road at a lonely spot in the vicinity of Russell Springs as she was returning to her home from school at Mt. Olivet.  After assaulting his little relative, he choked her, then beat her brains out with a club and carried her body two hundred yards into a dense thicket, where her dead form was covered up with leaves. The body was found at 10 o’clock at night by a searching party, whose members feared that the little girl had met an evil fate. Blood hounds were hurried to the scene of the crime from Hustonville. They reached there the following day at 9 o’clok. Murderer at Victim’s Home. In the meantime Hill had visited the Womack home, had seen the remains of his victim and appeared to be visibly affected. A bystander remarked that the murdered would be burned at the stake as soon as trailed down by the bloodhounds, and that the dogs were coming. Hill, who had not been suspected, hastened from the house and fled into the woods of Russell county. The bloodhounds arrived and were taken to the scene of the tragedy and given the scent from the club with which the little girl had been beaten. From that point they went into the thicket where the body was found and thence followed the trail to the residence of Hill’s grandfather, where he had spent the night. The trail was followed to the Wamock home, and then the long hunt of five days through the woods began. Murderer Found in Adair The murderer was frequently heard of in advance of the hounds, but each time succeeded in eluding the officers who were sent ahead. Finally after covering a distance of ninety miles over mountains and through dense thickets, the fugitive criminal was found in an old barn near Sano, Adair county, where he had fallen asleep from exhaustion. He was captured last Sunday morning about 9 o’clock.  The officers hurried Hill to Jamestown, the county seat of Russell county, where he was placed in jail. Notwithstanding the fact that it was Sunday, Judge H. H. Dunbar called a special term of court and entered upon the examining trial of the prisoner, but so many determined men began gathering in the little town that the trial was stopped and the prisoner returned to jail and a guard placed around him. Officers Warned of Mob. Before 9 o’clock Sunday night the officers began receiving messages to the effect that a mob was forming and would attempt to take Hill from the jail at Jamestown. He was quickly taken into the woods several miles east and held until the following morning. In the meantime the jail at Jamestown was visited by a mob, an hundred strong, the doors were broken down and finding that Hill had been removed, the mob began a search of the residences of the town. Fearing the mob, the Russell county officers, instead of returning with the prisoner, took him overland fifty miles away to Monticello. On Monday  night it was learned that a mob was on its way to Monticello and Jailer Ramsey and Sheriff Wright removed the prisoner from the jail and started for Lexington with him. They were intercepted, however, and informed that the mob had gotten as far as the Cumberland river and being unable to cross, returned home. Thought He Would Be Safe. It was then felt that Hill would be safe at Monticello and he was returned to that point. Parties were stationed at the most favorable river crossing the notify the officers at Monticello, but the mob evidently knowing of the action of the officers, took an entirely different route, reaching Monticello at 11 o’clock Wednesday night at an unexpected time.  Practically all of the people were asleep and knew nothing of the presence of the mob until this morning. The jail was visited by twenty-six armed men who called Jailer Ramsey to the door on the pretense that they had a prisoner. The officer was covered with Winchesters and forced to unlock the door and point out the cell of Elemr Hill. Crouched in a one corner Hill begged the mob to show him mercy and to spare his life. Confessed at Last Moment. He was placed behind a member of the mob on horseback and carried to Greasy Creek, where the rope was looped around his neck and thrown high over a limb. Not until this was done did he confess his guilt. He was twenty-seven years of age and came of good parentage. Some years ago he was arrested on the charge of assaulting a school girl, but broke jail and eluded arrest for two years. When he returned the matter had died out and he was not tried. His body was cut down at 10 o’clock yesterday morning by the Coroner of Russell county. The mob which hanged Hill rode fifty miles over mountains and through thickets for the purpose of accomplishing its object. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Winchester News Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-12-18 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bridan Braun Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Greasy Creek, Pike County Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://archive.org/details/xt70zp3vtw7p/mode/2up">https://archive.org</a> 1900-1910 1908 Greasy Creek Hill Pike County https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/77360a4b2680173ed83eb6890ce75a77.png 46a9974f2291f8cb12d83b27444ebf59 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jessamine County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brown, Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1902 Subject The topic of the resource Brown, Thomas Charge, assault Mob, 200 Mob, hanging Description An account of the resource TOM BROWN SWINGS. Negro Allowed to Live Until Identified by Victim and Then Lynched in the Courthouse Yard. BY THE NEW ASSOCIATED PRESS–P.M. NICHOLLASVILLE (Ky.) Feb. 6. – Tom Brown, the negro who assaulted Miss Della Powell yesterday, was taken from the officers this afternoon and lynched. During the night the mob made repeated attempts to get the negro, but was baffled. This morning County Attorney Mitchell, Sheriff Christman and Deputy Scott removed the negro from jail to take him to Miss Powell’s home for identification. About one hundred men accompanied the officers and prisoner. Notable among them was William Powell, brother of the girl, armed with a double-barreled shotgun. After the negro had been fully identified and the officers were taking him back to the jail, the mob seized and lynched him in the Courthouse yard before the officers could get into the jail. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Los Angeles Times Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1902-02-07 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bridan Braun Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Nicholasville, Jessamine County 1900-1910 1902 Brown Jessamine County Nicholasville https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/4a684f30dc7e985419dc995c4641eea8.png 137bf3a7f36c82387bbd64495a3c87aa Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jessamine County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brown, Leavenworth Chronicle Tribune, February 6, 1902 Subject The topic of the resource Brown, Thomas Charge, assault Mob, 200 Mob, hanging Description An account of the resource WAS CAPTURED THIS MORNING Brown Attacked Girl In Secluded Road as She Was Returning From School–Girl Is But Fifteen Years Old. Scripps-McRae Telegram NICHOLASVILER, Ky., Feb. 6. – Tom Brown, a negro was lynched here at noon today by an infuriated mob. The negro last night attacked and brutally assaulted Miss Emma Powell, aged 15 years. Brown caught the girl in a secluded road as she was returning from the Jassamine institute, of which she is a student. The girl was found prostrated in the road. She gave a description of her assailant and a mob of two hundred men quickly gathered. Bloodhounds were immediately put on the track of the negro fiend and he was captured this morning. He was brought here and lynched at noon. Miss Powell is in a serious condition. She is the daughter of wealthy merchant here and is well known. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Leavenworth Chronicle Tribune Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1902-02-06 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bridan Braun Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Nicholasville, Jessamine County 1900-1910 1902 Brown Jessamine County Nicholasville https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/f50697b3de7225c40a536162875a5fa3.png 14b32f50e0374e6e225e903555de3b64 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Jessamine County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Brown, Lancaster Central Record, February 13, 1902 Subject The topic of the resource Brown, Thomas Charge, assault Mob, 200 Mob, hanging Description An account of the resource Prompt and Just Punishment. Last week, a negro assaulted Miss Della Powell, a prominent young lady, near her home in Jessamine county, dragging her from a buggy on the public highway, just before dark. The negro was taken to jail, and next morning the young lady fully identified him. A crowd (not a “mob,” as some papers reported) took him from the officers and hanged him in the court house yard at Nicholasville. While we are opposed to mob law, yet this punishment is what the brute should have received, and the citizens are to be congratulated on the job. Such fiendish assaults will never be stopped until the perpetrators are promptly executed, and the quicker the better. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Lancaster Central Record Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1902-03-13 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bridan Braun Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Nicholasville, Jessamine County 1900-1910 1902 Brown Jessamine County Nicholasville https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/7944846f2c9b1a32799f48fbe421ade5.jpg 26f81761c4f0bbdfe42c85b209a63a2b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Webster County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource McDowell, Hartford Republican, June 1908 Subject The topic of the resource McDowell, Jake Charge, shooting Mob, shooting Description An account of the resource RAIDERS REVENGE DIXON RACE RIOT The Negro Who Killed Berry is Summarily Executed Take Him Out of Town And Shoot Him by the Roadside. Dixon, Ky., May 31. – Final revenge for the Providence race riot of March 14, in which two white traveling men were wounded one of them fatally and in which Marshal Smith Childers was dangerously shot, was paid by a masked band, which took Jake McDowell, Childers’ assailant, from the jail here this morning and shot him to death. McDowell was a large yellow negro, and after the mounted and masked raiders had galloped out of town half a mile several persons who followed them heard two shots. They found McDowell’s body flung to one side of the big road with two bullet wounds and one stab wound. All the men of whom there were about ten were masked, save the leader, and he was not known to the Jailer. The town was quiet about 2 o’clock this morning, when the clatter of hoofs was heard from the South. The band rode up to the jail and firing a few shots, brought out the Jailer. He was told that they wanted Jake McDowell, and after being forced into submission by the muzzles of several guns he complied with the request of the raiders. McDowell was trembling and pleading when he was brought forth but the raiders said nothing to him. They merely mounted him on the back of an extra horse and went trotting out into the county. Here the negro was dispatched at once. McDowell shot Marshal Childers who for a time lay dangerously wounded, but by the persistent nursing of his sweetheart, Miss Fannie Gallion, of Hopkins county who was attending college at Bowling Green at the time of the shooting he pulled through. Though still weak Childers is just able to be around. The most serious part of the entire race riot of March 14 was the ambush in which the negroes lay just out of Providence. J. B. Berry of Louisville and J. B. Parks of Chattanooga, Tenn., who were riding along the road were mistaken by the enraged and frightened blacks for a descending mob of white men bent on avenging the shooting of CHilders and were fired upon. Berry died in an Evansville hospital from the effects of his wounds and Parks is still weak from the bullets which entered his body. McDowell admitted having been in the ambushing crowd of negroes and he was that night hurried to the Henderson jail for safekeeping. Quiet was finally restored in Dixon however, and McDowell was brought back to stand trial. He was in jail expecting a speedy court test when the mob took him out this morning. McDowell always admitted the blunder of the killing of Berry and the wounding of Parks but he declared that the beginning of the riot–the wounding of Childers–was justified. McDowell swore that Childers was mixed up with a yellow girl in the negro settlement of Providence, and declared that he would tell an ugly story on the stand. The only man in the jail delivery who spoke remarked laconically: “Dead n___s tell no tales and kill no white men.” Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hartford Republican Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-06 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bridan Braun Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Dixon, Webster County 1900-1910 1908 Dixon McDowell Webster County https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/b9723ff94fbb2a06efac365550d5ba5b.jpg 02f52eb64a81061ddf48e69fe9a7c5d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Webster County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource McDowell, Hopkinsville Kentuckian, March 17, 1908 Subject The topic of the resource McDowell, Jake Charge, shooting Mob, shooting Description An account of the resource THREE WHITE MEN KILLED BY NEGROES Webster County On Verge of Race War Over Shooting of Town Marshal of Providence. Dixon, Ky., March 15, – After Jake McDowell, a negro, who shot and it is thought fatally wounded Smith Childers, deputy city Marshal of Providence, this county, had been placed in jail here by Marshal H. L. Sutton, of Providence, a number of negroes, supposed to be from the vicinity of Providence, ambushed themselves about two miles from this place with the supposed intention of intercepting a mob that it was rumored was forming to take McDowell from jail. About 12 o’clock a party of traveling men, on their way to Dixon, were without warning fired upon by the ambushed negroes, and two of them were wounded. P. B. Carter, of Chattanooga, Tenn., is thought to be fatally wounded and was taken to a hospital at Evansville. J. B. Barry, of Louisville, was painfully, if not seriously, wounded. He left here this morning, hoping to be able to reach his home in Louisville. FIND PRISONER GONE. About 2 o’clock the expected mob reached Dixon, but McDowell had been hurried away to the Henderson jail. Upon learning that their man was away and of the shooting of the other men by the ambushed negroes the mob hastily left. Tom Fuqua, Tom Miller, Will McDowell, and an unknown negro have been arrested for complicity in the wounding of the traveling men and for being members of the black ambushers. Jake McDowell is at the Henderson jail, being protected by the entire police force from possible lynching. Childers is dying here, and his sweetheart, Miss Fannie Gallion, of Hopkins county, is hovering over him, trying to soothe his last hours. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hopkinsville Kentuckian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-03-17 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bridan Braun Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Dixon, Webster County 1900-1910 1908 Dixon McDowell Webster County https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/b50e5249edd4e112b9f47d356b46f5a6.jpg 5dd09a7275f5dbfc20c1d687b18a5d57 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Webster County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource McDowell, Hartford Herald, March 18, 1908 Subject The topic of the resource McDowell, Jake Charge, shooting Mob, shooting Description An account of the resource NEGROES FIRED ON SUPPOSED MOB And Shot Down Two Innocent Men. RACE WAR NOW THREATENED Result of Fatal Wounding of Deputy Marshal at Providence. DIxon, Ky., March 15. – The fatal wounding of Deputy Marshal Smith Childers by Jake McDowell, at Providence, Ky., last evening almost precipitated a race war, and was the indirect cause of two traveling men being shot. P. B. Carter, a traveling man of Chattanooga, was dangerously and perhaps fatally wounded, and J. B. Barry, another commercial traveler, was pain fully wounded. The two men were shot from ambush by negroes while driving between Dixon and Providence in company of two other drummers. The negroes who did the shooting evidently labored under the impression that the quartette were members of a mob pursuing McDowell. Deputy Marshal Childers was shot while attempting to arrest McDowell. The negro was taken into custody and hurried to Dixon for safe keeping. A mob of white immediately began forming and negroes in the vicinity of Providence, hearing fo this, also armed themselves and lay in wait by the road over which the mob was expected to pass. They mistook the traveling men for the advance guard of the mob and after firing on them, made their escape. McDowell, after being brought to Dixon, was hurried on to Henderson. The mob in pursuit arrived at the Dixon jail at 2 o’clock this morning and, finding there was no chance of getting McDowell,  immediately set out to beat the country with bloodhounds for the negroes who had fired on the traveling men. Thus far no trace of the culprits has been found, but any of them caught will probably be lynched. Carter was taken to a hospital at Evansville, Ind. - JAILS HEAVILY GUARDED Henderson, Ky., March 15. – Webster county, the scene of a race war Saturday night, is quiet to-day, but the jails at Dixon and Henderson are being heavily guarded to-night for fear of a raid by a mob. Deputy Marshal Smith Childers, of Providence, who was shot by Jake McDowell, a negro, is dying. McDowell was placed in the Henderson county jail after a chase of twenty-five miles. Will McDowell, a cousin of the murderer, Tom Fuqua, Tom Miller and another unknown negro, were arrested to-day, charged with the shooting of two traveling men, whom they thought were part of a mob on the way to Dixon from Providence to hang McDowell. One of the men shot is in a serious condition - MR. BARRY DEAD. Evansville, Ind., March 16. – John Barry , of Louisville, Ky., who was shot by negroes from ambush near Dixon, Ky., Saturday night, died in a local hospital to-night. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Hartford Herald Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-03-18 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bridan Braun Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Dixon, Webster County 1900-1910 1908 Dixon McDowell Webster County https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/ba1e16a49dfc10140567bfc315ca4352.jpg 0925c96a2e50b9110bc747e40a162270 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Webster County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource McDowell, Mount Vernon (KY) Signal, June 5, 1908 Subject The topic of the resource McDowell, Jake Charge, shooting Mob, shooting Description An account of the resource Positively Exhibit Afternoon and night at LIVINGSTON, MONDAY, JUNE 15 Jake McDowell, the negro who shot and seriously wounded Smith Childress, Deputy Marshal of Dixon, was taken from the jail at Dixon by a mob and later his body was found in the road. McDowell had been in jail at Henderson but was recently removed to Dixon, where his trial was to have been called soon. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Mount Vernon (KY) Signal Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-06-05 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bridan Braun Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Dixon, Webster County 1900-1910 1908 Dixon McDowell Webster County https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/c927673758ea35603ac54f027b28f192.jpg cfdb425a9ede85926f1c649d649409ef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Webster County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource McDowell, Earlington Bee, June 4, 1908 Subject The topic of the resource McDowell, Jake Charge, shooting Charge, shooting Description An account of the resource JAKE McDOWELL KILLED BY MOB. Taken From Dixon Jail Sunday Morning and Shot to Death. NEGRO WHO HAD SHOOTING SCRAPE WITH SMITH CHILDERS. Dixon, Ky., May 31. – A dozen or so men took Jake McDowell, a negro, from the Webster county jail here this morning and shot him to death. The mob quickly dispersed and the officers say have been unable to learn their names. About 2 o’clock Thomas S. Page, the jailer, who sleeps in the guard house at the jail, was awakened and found several masked men standing over him and two of them had revolvers pointed at his breast. The men said they had come to get Jake McDowell and the jailer at first resisted and when he saw the men were determined he gave up the keys. Two of the men went into McDowell’s cell and dragged the sleeping negro out. The negro begged that his life be spared but no mercy was shown him. The prisoner was taken a short distance down the Providence road and in a few minutes several shots were heard to ring out and the jailer at once realized what had happened. He quickly got in communication with the sheriff and several of the other county officers but they were unable to overtake the mob as the men had scattered and gone to their homes. The young son of the jailer went down the road to where the shooting had been heard and he found the body of McDowell lying in the road. Life was extinct and three bullet holes were found in the negroe’s body. The body was just outside the corporate limits and within a half mile of the jail. On March 14, last, McDowell shot and wounded Smith Childers, who was deputy marshal at Providence at the time, in a fight that arose over personal matters. It was at first thought that Childers had been fatally wounded but he has about recovered and able to be up and around. McDowell surrendered to the town marshal of Providence immediately after his trouble with Childers.  For fear that he might be lynched the officers too McDowell to Henderson, Ky., where he has been kept in jail until a short time ago when he was brought back here and his case had been set down for trial at the present term of court. On the day of the shooting, J. B. Berry, of Louisville, and Paul Carter, of Chattanooga, both traveling men, heard of the affair and thinking there might be a lynching at Dixon where the negro had been taken, decided to go to Dixon to “see the fun” as they expressed it to some friends. As they were entering the outskirts of the town of Dixon several negroes in ambush mistaking them for a mob fired into them. Both Berry and Carter were wounded and removed to Walker’s Sanitarium at Evansville where Berry lingered a short time and died. Carter recovered after having been in the hospital for several weeks. A number of negroes were indicted on the charge of ambushing and shooting the two drummers and most of them are now in jail here. None of these were mosested by the mob which killed McDowell. The officers say they have been unable to learn any of the men in the mob. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Earlington Bee Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-06-04 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bridan Braun Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Dixon, Webster County 1900-1910 1908 Dixon McDowell Webster County https://drvk.createuky.net/news-articles/files/original/ab29db57663c2045c7ac781727e487b4.jpg 47d9f9eb368a401c42a869ce3a538d10 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Webster County Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource McDowell, Earlington Bee, March 19, 1908 Subject The topic of the resource McDowell, Jake Charge, shooting Mob, shooting Description An account of the resource Passion and Mob Spirit Bring Fearful Chain of Tragedies in Webster County. DEPUTY MARSHAL CHILDERS AND TWO TRAVELING MEN VICTIMS Ambuscade Formed to Stop Mob and Sight seers are Shot. MCDOWELL MAKES SERIOUS CHARGED AND SAYS HE SHOT CHILDERS IN SELF-DEFENSE. Dixon, Ky., March 15 – Rising to save a guilty member of their race from possible lynching by a white mob for fatally wounding Deputy Marshal Smith Childers, of Providence, men in ambush fired on four and wounded two traveling men between here and Providence Saturay night. They believed that the men–J. B. Barry, of Louisville, and P. B. Parks, of Chattanooga, Tenn., – were the van of the white mob which was seeking the life of Jake McDowell, the negro who shot Deputy Childers Saturday. Both travelers were seriously wounded. Alleged Ambushers Arrested. Tom Fuqua, Tom Miller, Will McDowell and an unknown negro have been arrested for complicity in the wounding of the traveling men and for being members of the black ambushers. Jake McDowell is at the Henderson jail, being protected by the entire police force from possible lynching. Childers is dying here, and his sweetheart, Miss Fannie Gallion of Hopkins county, is hovering over him, trying to soothe his last hours. This is the epitome of the wildest night in the history of Webster county, and McDowell. Mob Persued McDowell. The white people of the county heard of it, and from Providence seventy-five men were at once recruited, pursuing McDowell who in charge of Marshal Sutton, had been brought to this city, where the jail was searched. The mob was close on his track, and McDowell was taken to Henderson at once, where he was placed in jail. Sutton returned ot Providence to establish quiet in the excited community. He has posses scouring the county in every direction for the negroes who participated in the ambush. Childers had been looking for McDowell for some days, and he came upon him Saturday about 1 o’clock. McDowell at the jail in Henderson gave out the following statement, which was corroborated in the main by Deputy Sheriff Gib Hubbard, of Webster: McDowell’s Statement. “Mr. Childers was in trouble over a negro girl in the negro district of Providence,” said McDowell, who is a yellow negro about fifty-one. “I persuaded the other negroes not to hurt him, as they had intended, and finally on Saturday morning I saw Mr. Childers on the street. We had some words, he threatened to kill me if I mentioned the trouble he had had in our quarters on Friday night. Then he followed me and pulled an automatic pistol. I struck my thumb between the trigger and the ring and then wrested the pistol from Mr. Childers. Then I shot at him three times. Marshal Sutton came up and fired once at me. The he arrested me and took me to Dixon.” McDowell had $60 on him when put in jail at Henderson. He had been taken to Dixon at 5 o’clock on Saturday, as the mob was forming, and at 9 o’clock Deputy Sheriff Hubbard and L. G. Walls and Fred Watson, a jail guard, took him to Henderson. The mob arrived here shortly afterward. When they came they heard that Barry and Park had been shot by the negroes in ambush between here and Providence, and they set out at once to hang every negro they could implicate in the ambuscade. Besides Miller and Fuqua, Will McDowell, a cousin of Jake, and an unknown negro were arrested late today. Subdued Excitement. Dixon and Providence are quiet today, but the subdued excitement is high. The posses are still in the country and the crowds gather on the streets to hear the reports of Childers’ condition. Henderson is thirty-five miles from here, and the chances of a mob attempting to break the big jail are small. Nevertheless, there was some talk tonight that the party was on its way there. Thai is not believed. Deputy Sheriff Hubbard says that Childers was not after McDowell for a misdeameanor, and says that the negro has always been peaceable. General belief is that Childers was mixed up in the negro settlement in some unpleasant way. The fatal blunder was the wounding of the travelers. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Earlington Bee Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1908-03-19 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bridan Braun Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Dixon, Webster County 1900-1910 1908 Dixon McDowell Webster County