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GUARDS OVERPOWERED And Robert Morton Taken out By a Mob and Hanged BOWLING GREEN, KY., Feb. 5.—Robert Morton, colored, was hanged by a mob about three miles from Rockfield, shortly after midnight Wednesday night. It is said that the negro, a son of…

A coldblooded Muder Occurs at Lexington LOUISVILLE, Oct. 15. - A special to the Commercial from Lexington, Ky., says: Another lynching was added to the unusually large fall series of Blue Grass lynching bees Saturday. Saturday at the close of the…

The Ku-Klux Grim Death Among Us We have to record the doings of the “King of Terrors” among us-- king of terror and terror of kings; the doings of Death. He came ghastly, if reports be true; and the work he did appeared ghastly enough on yesterday…

They Got Him, After Being Thrice Baffled in Former Attempts, a Determined Mob at Last Treats Miles Petty to the Death of the Dastard Elizabethtown, May 9– Last night about 1 o’clock sixteen masked and armed men rode into town, hitched their…

Fleeing from Judge Lynch An Exodus of Negros from Hardin County— Lynching of Miles Petty the Alleged Cause [Louisville Commercial] The colored people of Hardin county, Ky., will make a general exodus to Kansas. Two hundred of them have made…

Negro Taken from Blandville Jail by disguised men, Dragged to the Woods, Hanged, Shot, and His Clothing Burned off. …

Audience Shoots a Negro Lynched in Opera House Kentucky Town is Scene of Most Melodramatic Act of Vengeance Ever Enacted----------------------PRICE PAID FOR SHOOTING NEGRO Calhoun, Ky., April 21.--With militia upon the scene to prevent a race…

Realism With a Vengeance At Livermore, KY. Negro Hung in Opera House---Mob Fills Swaying Body With Shot at So Much, Per---Seats on Sale---Brought Good Prices. Special to THE FREEMAN Not many people have known of such a town as Livermore, Ky. And…

18 Indicted For Lynching (Associated Press Telegram) OWENSBORO, May 12.--Indictments were returned here today against 18 well-known citizens of McLane [sic] growing out of the lynching of the negro William Potter at the Opera-house at Livermore…

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…