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Hurried Away To Escape a Mob That Was Forming, ------- Fiend James Stone Taken to Louisville. Louisville, KY., Nov. 26.--James Stone, who is charged with the assault on Mrs. J. M. Green in Mayfield, was spirited to this city last night from Paducah.…

STONE RETURNED TO MAYFIELD. Suspected of Attempting to Assault Mrs. J. M. R. Green. James Stone, the young colored man who was brought to this city several weeks ago to escape the vengeance of a mob, who believed him guilty of criminal assault upon…

Lynching Is In Order. A Mayfield Lady The Victim of a Brutal Negro. At eleven o’clock Monday night the wife of Prof. J. M. R. Green, of this city, was outraged by Jim Stone, a brutal negro living three miles south of town. At the hour named Mrs.…

KENTUCKY NEWS. The Latest News From All Parts of the Commonwealth. ------------------ Jim Stone ----------------- In Danger of Lynching at Mayfield, Ky.-- A Mob Forming. Mayfield, Ky., Dec. 21.--Jim Stone, the Negro charged with outraging Mrs. J.…

KENTUCKY NEWS. The Latest News From All Parts of the Commonwealth. ----------- PITCHED BATTLE ----------- Between Whites and Blacks at Mayfield Expected--Tom Chambers Burned to Death by a Mob. PADUCAH, KY., Dec. 22.--Passengers arriving on the…

FOUND THE KEYS And Entering the Cell Dragged the Negro Out, Took Him Three Miles Down the Road And After Riddling Him With Bullets And Mutilating Him in a Horrible Manner Left His Dead Body Swinging From a Tree. Princeton, Ky., Oct. 15.…

A RACE RIOT. NEGROES ENDEAVORING TO WORK UP A RACE RIOT. Princeton, Ky., Oct. 22. – Considerable excitement is reported in South christian in the neighborhood of Lafayette and Peedee over the efforts of negro leaders to work up a race riot. The…

A KENTUCKY LYNCHING. A Mob Endeavored to Make the Punishment Fit the Crime. PRINCETON, Ky., Oct. 15. – Willis Giffey, the fiend confined in jail here, has paid the penalty of his crime. Sunday night at 11:30 o’clock a mob of 100 or more men entered…

Another Colored Man Lynched – His Body Horribly Mutilated PRINCETON, KY, Oct. 15 – Willis Griffey, the colored man confined to jail here, was lynched here last night at 11:30 o’clock by a mob of one hundred or more men. They went to the jail and…

ANOTHER ACCOUNT. HOPKINSVILLE, KY. Oct. 15. –[Special.]– Information has been received here to-day from Princeton to the effect that Willis Griffey, the colored brute who outraged the person of Miss Lena Berry, in the southern portion of this…