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Potter, Lexington Leader, May 12, 1911
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…
Morton, Hartford Ohio County News, February 10, 1897
Another Kentucky Lynching.
BOWLING GREEN, KY., Feb. 4—Robert Morton, colored, was hanged by a mob about three miles from Rockfield, shortly after midnight last night. The lynchers went about the work in a quiet way, and the people of this vicinity…
Sarver, Memphis Daily Appeal, March 15, 1882
Three gentlemen arrested for taking the negro Sarver from the hands of the officers at Franklin, to be mobbed, are guarded in the jailer’s residence, and their trial comes off Monday. Public sentiment seems to be in their favor.
Sarver, Memphis Public Ledger, March 7, 1882
Served Him Right.
NASHVILLE, March 7,.—Bob Sarver, colored, was lynched at Franklin, Ky., last night for an attempt to rape a white girl sixteen years old, named Ruly.
Sarver, Marshall Tri-Weekly Herald, March 14, 1882
HUNG BY A MOB.—Nashville dispatch of the 7th: Bob Sarver, who attempted to outrage the person of Miss Tennie Ruley, near Franklin, Ky., Friday, was taken from the guards while they were endeavoring to take him to Bowling Green for safety, Monday…
Sarver, Paris Bourbon News, March 10, 1882
One hundred masked men took Bob Sarvers, a colored man who attempted to outrage a young Miss of fifteen, from a train near Franklin, and hung him.
Sarver, Hopkinsville South Kentuckian, March 14, 1882
Bob. Sarver, col:. who assaulted Miss. Tennie Ruby near Franklin, Friday, the 3rd inst was taken from the officers and lynched by a mob on the following Monday night, at the place where he attempted to commit the crime. The young lady was a school…
Skaggs, Osceola Record, April 23, 1891
NEWS NOTES.
An armed mob shot and killed in Warren county, Ky., Will Skaggs, colored, an escaped murderer.
Skaggs, Kansas City Times, April 17, 1891
A Murder Summarily Avenged.
LOUISVILLE, KY., APRIL 16–Seven masked men visited the old Union neighborhood near Bowling Green early this morning and shot to death Will Skaggs, a negro 18 years of age, who on Tuesday fatally cut a young white man…
Skaggs, Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky Leader), April 17, 1891
FILLED WITH BULLETS.
FATE OF A NEGRO BOY WHO CUT A WHITE ONEA Mob's Vengeance About Two Miles from Bowling Green, Kentucky-The Victim of the Cutting Will Also Pass in His Checks
Special to THE LEADER
Bowling, Green, KY., April 17.—William Skaggs,…