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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Kentuckian Hanged By Lynching Party Princeton, KY., June 1.--(AP)--Walter Merrick, 48, was removed from the county jail by a mob late Tuesday night, and his body was found Wednesday hanging from a tree three miles away. The lynching party entered…

KENTUCKY LYNCHERS FREE; OFFICERS REFUSE TO TAKE ANY STEP TO ARREST THEM “I’ve Got Nothing to Say,” Is Only Answer Sheriff Will Give; County Attorney Won’t Make It His Business. ------------------------- KLU-KLUX TERRORS ARE…

Kentuckians Lynch Dynamite Suspect Man Awaiting Trial on Charge of Blowing Up Store Is Seized in Night at Princeton--------------------------------------- JAILOR BOUND BY CAPTORS------------------------------------- Victim Was Accused of Setting…

Mob Lynches Man Jailed In Blast Masked Crowd Raids Bastille in Princeton, KY,; Victim Found on GibbetPRINCETON, Ky., June 1 (I.N.S.).--Walter Merrick, 45, white farmer, was taken from his cell in the county jail here by a masked mob early today,…

Lynchers Took Dynamiter Out and Hanged Him Was Prisoner in Kentucky Jail- He Had Blown Up Store and Injured the Proprietor Princeton, KY, June 1--(UP)--Masked men in autos rode up to the jail here to-day and removed Walter Merrick, 40, a prisoner,…