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The white Christians of Shelbyville, Ky., mobbed and lynched a Negro the first of the week who was simply charged with assaulting Mrs. Chester Crawford, a white lady. To prove that the white Christian gentlemen were simply savaged and not in favor of…

SHOT TO DEATH BY MOB Lon Beard, a Negro, Charged With Assault, Riddled With Bullets at Normandy, Ky. Louisville, Ky., July 8. – A special to the Times from Shelbyville, Ky., says: Lon Beard, a negro who had been arrested on a charge of assaulting…

QUICK VENGEANCE FOR NEGRO BRUTE Was Being Taken to Shelbyville to Escape Mob. While in the Smoking Car, a Fusillade Left Him Riddled With Bullets. ATTEMPTED ASSAULT CHARGED Taylorsville, Ky., July. 8. – Lon Beard, a young negro, charged with an…

Lynched for Arson

Two Negroes Hung by a Mob in Russellville

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…

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…

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.

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.

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…