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FULL STORY OF HILL LYNCHING Confesses Crime and Mob Sings Hymn Before Hanging Murderer. DANVILLE, Ky., Dec. 18. – Elmer Hill, confessed child-murdered, paid the death penalty for his crimes Wednesday night. As the hangmen were looping the rope…

LYNCHED. Elmer Hill Taken from Monticello Jail and Hanged. Monticello, Ky., Dec. 17. – Elmer Hill, the youth charged with assaulting and murdering little Mamie Womack, in Russell county, was taken from the Wayne county jail here last night and…

THE NECKTIE ROUTE. A Rope Placed Around Elmer Hill’s Neck and He is Jerked into Eternity. ABOUT THIRTY MEN DID THE WORK. The expected happened last Wednesday night when a mob of about thirty or forty citizens of Russell county visited the…

Race Rioting Is Feared Saloons at Paducah Cloesd [sic] After Two Men Are Lynched Paducah, Ky., Oct. 16– On the heels of two lynchings here today, Paducah prepared for possible further trouble tonight by ordering its saloons to remain closed,…

Lynched! John Henderson Strangled to Death on the Tree by Masked Men– Taken from the Versailles Jail at 2:30 O’clock This Morning– He Makes No Resistance Whatsoever so Far as Can be Ascertained– And Gives Himself Up to the Men Who Came After Him,–…

Bob Harper Dies At the Hands of a Mob at Bowling Green— Sudden Ending to the Inquiry in Progress— The Prisoner Captured in the Court House— And Hung From a Beech street in the Fair Grounds Bowling Green, Ky., Dec. 28– Bob Harper has paid the…

Lynching at Winchester. Bob Haggard was hanged by a mob at Winchester, Monday night. The trouble that caused the hanging it set forth in the Democrat as hereunder given: Late Saturday afternoon Bob Haggard, a mulatto, about twenty-one years old,…

“Unknown Persons.” WINCHESTER, Ky., July 18. – The inquest over the body of Bob Haggard, the Negro lynched in this city, resulted in a verdict that his death was caused by “unknown persons.”

HE WAS LYNCHED Bob Haggard Taken From The Jail at Winchester And Swung From the Kentucky Central Bridge Early This Morning. The Body Cut Down And Buried Today. WINCHESTER, Ky., July 16. – Bob Haggard, the Negro who was accused of assaulting Myrtle…

STABLE BURNED At the Winchester Fair Grounds Last Night By Incendiaries. A gentleman from Winchester this morning informs THE LEADER that the stable of John T. Jones, located at the fair grounds, near that place, was burned to the ground last…