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Kentucky Mob Drowns Negro Takes Him from Jail and Throws Him Into the Mississippi. Special to The New York Times HICKMAN, Ky., Aug. 30.--Joe Bumpass, a negro, was taken from the county jail at 1 o’clock this morning by a mob and drowned in the…

Lynched! Negro, Joe Bumpus, Taken From Jail and Put to Death--Supposed to Have Been Drowned. Joe Bumpus, the black fiend, who was charged with the crime of attempted rape on the person of a respectable white girl near Jordan in this county, was…

Into Eternity Went Ephraim Brinkley at the End of a Rope Last Wednes-day Night. HANGED BY AN AVENGING MOB. The Slayer of Trouillas Meets Death Near Nebo, at the Very Door of the Man He Murdered. Ephraim Brinkley was hanged by a mob of men on last…

Brinkley, Messenger Inquirer, 23 July 1897 Ephraim Brinkley Hanged in Broad Daylight in Hop-Kins County. He Was Suspected of Having Murdered a Wealthy Farmer Named Troullias. A Georgia Negro Rapist Hanged in the Courthouse Yard by a Crowd of…

Hired to Assail a Woman. HICKMAN, Ky., June 12–Three months ago two negroes, Henry Colbert and Pete Hunt, made an assault on Mrs, Lizzie Pratcher. East of here. The men were arrested, and confessed that they had been hired by Hugh Wood, a white man,…

Lynched By A Mob. LOUISVILLE, Dec. 24.--A Horse Cave special to the Courier-Journal says: “Yesterday morning about daylight Esquire John A. Gardner, who lives about one mile from Rawlett’s Station, In Hart County, was called to go to his barn by a…

Lynching in Tennessee. LOUISVILLE, December 25.--John A. Gardner was nearly killed in his barn at Rowlett’s station yesterday. A negro named John Campbell and his brother Sam, who staid in the barn with him, were arrested on suspicion, and money was…

Two Negroes Lyncned. [sic] LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 24.--A Horse Cave special to the Courier Journal says; Side by side they hang on the banks of Green river. Yesterday morning, about daylight, Esquire John A. Gardner, who lives about one mile from…

Two Negroes Lynched in Kentucky LOUISVILLE, December 24th.-- John A. Gardner was nearly killed in his barn at Rowlett’s Station yesterday. A negro named John Campbell and his brother Sam, who staid in the barn with him, were arrested on suspicion,…

LYNCHED. Elmer Hill Taken from Monticello Jail and Hanged. Monticello, Ky., Dec. 17. – Elmer Hill, the youth charged with assaulting and murdering little Mamie Womack, in Russell county, was taken from the Wayne county jail here last night and…