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Negro, Defying Posse, Killed Maysville Chief of Police Among Five Wounded— Desperado Is Surrounded In Barn On Farm— Held Pursuers At Bay Maysville, Ky., March 1– William Sanders, a negro, shot and badly wounded Chief of Police James Mackey and…

Negro Put to Death By A Mob 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…

AN ARMED MOB HANGED NEGRO Taken From County Jail and Strung Up to Telephone Pole in Public Square. Litchfield, Ky., Sept. 26. – An armed mob comprised of men and women, early this morning visited the county jail at this place, overpowered the…

LYNCH LAW CARRIED OUT AT LEITCHFIELDLeitchfield, Ky., Sept. 26. – A mob of citizens, at 1 o’clock this morning, overpowered the jailer, took Joe Richardson, a negro, from his cell and hanged him to a tree in the public square.The body was still…

LYNCHING Of Negro in Kentucky Follows an Attempted Attack on Young White Girl. Jailer Says Keys Were Taken From Him After He Was Gagged By Mob – McCreary SIlent. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE INQUIRER Frankfort, Ky.m September 26 – When Governor James…

NEGRO LYNCHED IN KENTUCKY. Mob Strings Up Black Who Assaulted Little Girl. Litchfield, Ky., Sept. 26. – A mob of citizens visited the county jail here about 1 o’clock this morning, overpowered the jailer, took Joe Richardson, a negro, from his cell…

A MOB'S WORK.Berry Rich Called from his House in the Night and Hung.SOMETHING ABOUT WILLIAM GOODE.

Work of Whitecaps.A Bad Negro Lynched in Washington County Before His Trial.An Old Man at Paducah Stabs and Kills a Young Medical Student.French Testifies in the Murder Case at Barboursville-Flannery Acquitted at Brandenburg.Bloody Record in…

Took A Brute’s Life 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 Shelbyville, Ky., July 20– Sam Pulliam, a…

Livermore Citizens Arrested on Indictments Of Murder for Alleged Participation In Lynching Of A M’Lean [sic] County Negro LIVERMORE KY., May 13.--As a result of the most vigorous instructions ever given a grand jury in Western Kentucky by Circuit…