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NEGRO TAKEN OUT AND MURDERED BY NIGHT RIDERS AT GOLDEN POND. Second Killing That Has Occurred by Night Riders Within a Week. REIGN OF CRIME STILL UNTOUCHED Following close upon the murder of Hiram Hedge in Nicholas county, comes the news of…

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…

NEGRO LYNCHED. Fratus Warfield Who Attempted to Asoult Mrs. Penick Taken From Jail by a Mob at Midnight. Elkton Ky. Oct. 18, - Last night at midnight the negro Fratus Warfield, who attempted to outrage Mrs Len Penick, the wife of a prominent farmer…

Fratus Warfield, a negro, was lynched at Elkton, Ky., by a mob for attempting to enter a farmer’s home when the farmer’s home when the farmer’s wife and little child were the only occupants.

ANOTHER NEGRO LYNCHED Kentucky Citizens Take Fratus Warfield From Jail and Hang Him. Shortly after 12 o’clock Thursday morning, Fratus Warfield, a negro, 23 years of age, was taken from the county jail by a mob and hanged at Elkton, Ky. Tuesday the…

LYNCHED FOR WRITING A DISRESPECTFUL LETTER We learn from the Standard, published in Lexington, Ky., that a Robert Morton was lynched in Bowling Green, Ky., Feb. 4th for writing an insulting and insinuating letter to a white lady. The Standards…

A Kentucky Brute Lynched. Barbourville, Ky., Aug. 6. - “Jack” Williams was caught in the mountains near Brush Creek and lynched last night by a mob of enraged men. He and his brother Tom were accused of assaulting a dear mute fairly named Viney…

LYNCHING IN KENTUCKY. Mob Hangs One White Outrager and Menaces Another. A dispatch from Barboursville, Ky., says: Jack Williams was caught in the mountains near Brush Creek and lynched Friday night by a mob of enraged men. He and his brother Tom…

MOB’S QUICK WORK. Jack Williams, Who Helps a Brother to Assault a Girl, is Lynched. Tennessee Comes Forward With Another Instance of the Same Kind. Crimes and Casualties Reported By Telegraph From Various Quarters of the Globe. WAYS OF A WICKED…

A NEGRO LYNCHED In Morgan County fo Writing an Insulting Letter to a White Woman Bawling [sic] Green, Feb. 4.—Last night, near Rockfield, ten miles from this city, a negro named Robert Morton yesterday wrote an insulting note to Miss Tillie…