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Mob’s Work Negro Hanged Near Springfield, Ky., for a Terrible Crime -- It Was An Orderly Job Springfield, Ky., Jan. 11– Jim Mays, a Negro, charged with assaulting Lulu Jeans, daughter of Joseph Jeans, one of the most prominent farmers in the…

Lynch Law in Kentucky. Full Particulars of the Lynching of Parker Mayo. Terrible Punishment for a Terrible Crime

A mob attacked the Owensboro jail at an early hour Monday morning to secure a negro named Richard May, charged with rape. W.J. Lucas, the Jailer, resisted the attack, and was killed by the volley of shots that were interchanged. The mob then broke…

Lynching Denounced In Bishop Penick’s Resolution, But It Is Tabled At Frankfort– He Stated That all Male Citizens in Frankfort Were Placed Under Suspicion by Murder of John Maxey. Frankfort, Ky., June 5– The Citizens’ Improvement Association,…

Nothing Likely to Be Done About the Lynching of John Maxey, a Negro, By a Mob at Frankfort Thursday– Governor Willson Denounces Work of the Masked Gang, But the State is Powerless– Those Who Took Part in the Affair Are Believed to Have Been Composed…

Lynched on Capital Bridge Mob at Frankfort Hangs John Maxey And Then Riddles His Body With Bullets– Victim Had Fatally Shot Bert Bowers, Of Kansas, A Director Howe Circus– Lexington Detectives Save Man From Probable Death Earlier in the Night, But…

Body of One Mob Victim Missing in Shelbyville Jim West is Not Thought to Have Escaped– Best Citizens of the Town Insist That Courts Investigate the Lynching of Sunday in Which Three Met Death at Hands of Twenty Armed and Masked Men– All Were Negroes…

Arm Was Broken Jim West Saved His Neck in Shelbyville Lynching, But Was Hurt in Fall Shelbyville, Ky., Feb. 1–Private detectives who have been at work in Shelbyville for weeks are said to have discovered a mass of evidence as to the operation of…

The Pulpit and the Bar Father Lambert Young— Letter from Hon. John L. Scott to Judge Ballard The case of Father Lamber Young drags, and will not be finally disposed of for two or three months to come. He was fined fifty dollars and costs by…

Mob Batters Down Jail Doors and Hangs Negro Officials Helpless While Crowd Takes Former Soldier Away From Them Hickman, Ky., Dec. 16– An infuriated mob broke down the huge iron doors of the county jail here early morning, forcibly took Charlie…