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Article Transcription Title: HE WROTE A LETTER. For That Offense Robert Morton, a Negro, Was Hanged by a Kentucky Mob.BOWLING GREEN, Ky., Feb. 6.—Wednesday night near Rockfield, a little station on the Louisville & Nashville, ten miles from…

Article Transcription Title: NOT LYNCHED. Warren County Negro Boy Who Wrote a Young Lady a Note Only Whipped. Bowling Green, Ky., Feb. 8.—Robert Morton, the negro boy who was taken from his home near Rockfield, ten miles south of Bowling Green,…

Article Transcription Title: JUDGE LYNCH HOLDS COURT And as a Result Robert Morton’s Body Dangled at the End of a Limb. A MOB’S QUICK VENGEANCE Negro Had Written an Insulting Note to a Reputable Young White Woman Near Bowling Green. BOWLING…

Article Transcription Title: A Warren County Negro Was Lynched. HE INSULTED A WHITE WOMAN Quick Work of a Small Mob From Rockfield. THE GUARDS WERE OVERPOWERED Bowling Green, Ky., Feb. 4.—(Special.)—Robert Morton, colored, was hanged by a mob…

RAVISHER LYNCHED IN KENTUCKY. Nashville, March 7.—Bob Sarver, colored, was lynched at Franklin, Ky., to-night, for an attempt to rape a white girl 16 years old named Ruly.

SWIFT AND SURE Is the Justice of Judge Lynch,And From His Decision There is No Appeal—How Bob Sarver Paid the Penalty of His Crime.SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. BOWLING GREEN., March 7.—Your correspondent has just returned from the scene of the…

FRANKLIN. A BLACK BRUTE BOBS UP SERENELY IN THE TITLE ROLE OF A LYNCHING DRAMA. [Special to the Courier-Journal.] FRANKLIN, March 6.—A negro man by the name of Bob Sarver was taken from the custody of officers to-nightm as he was being passed into…

HANGED BY A MOB. A NEGRO LYNCHED IN TENNESSEE FOR AN ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE. NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 7.—Bob Sarver, who attempted to outrage the person of Miss Tennie Ruby, near Franklin, Ky., last Friday, was taken from his guards while they were…

Article Transcription Untitled Bob Sarver, colored, was lynched in Simpson county, Ky., Monday night for attempted rape on a bright young white girl named Sina Ruley, on last Friday. Her screams brought help and the fiend got off but was arrested…

Passion and Mob Spirit Bring Fearful Chain of Tragedies in Webster County. DEPUTY MARSHAL CHILDERS AND TWO TRAVELING MEN VICTIMS Ambuscade Formed to Stop Mob and Sight seers are Shot. MCDOWELL MAKES SERIOUS CHARGED AND SAYS HE SHOT CHILDERS IN…