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Clifford, Union City Commercial Courier, August 23, 1907
NEGRO TAKEN FROM SHERIFF.
Assailant of Mrs. Cowan Expiates His Crime.
Tiptonville, Tenn., August 16.—Will Clifford, the negro who assaulted and murdered Mrs. Mary Cowan, was taken from the sheriff’s posse early yesterday morning, eighteen miles…
Clifford, Paducah Sun, August 17, 1907
LYNCHING
TAKES PLACE AT MAPLE, KY., FOLLOWING ASSAULT.
Tennessee Posse Follows Assailant and Murderer Across the Border.
Cincinnati, Aug. 17.—A Memphis dispatch to the Times-Star says: “Will Clifford, a negro, was arrested at Tiptonville, Tenn.,…
Clifford, Maysville Public Ledger, August 19, 1907
Will Clifford, a negro, was arrested at Tiptonville, Tenn., and confessed assaulting Mrs. Mary Cowan (white), and throwing her body into the river; also that he killed another woman a year ago. Constable Burrus secreted Clifford in a barn to avoid…
Clifford, Stanford Interior Journal, August 20, 1907
Will Clifford, a Negro, who confessed that he assaulted Mrs. Mary Cowan and threw her body into to the river, and that he had killed another white woman a year ago, was lynched by a mob at Maple, this State. Clifford was arrested at Tiptonville,…
Scott, Nashville Tennessean (Nashville American), June 3, 1898
SPIRITED HIM AWAY.
Charged With Attempted Assault, a Negro is Hidden by Officers.
SPRINGFIELD, June 2.—(Special.)—The community around Adairville, in Logan County, Ky., is greatly wrought up over an attempted assault upon Mrs. William Scoggins, by…
Scott, Nashville Tennessean (Nashville American), June 5, 1898
Article Transcription
Title: Safe in Kentucky
SPRINGFIELD. June 3.—(Special.)—George Scott, the would-be negro rapist, has been turned over to the Sheriff of Logan County, Kentucky. The negro was induced to return to Kentucky without requisition…
Scott, Cincinnati Enquirer, July 27, 1898
LYNCHED
By a Determined Mob Was George Scott, the Colored Assailant of a White Woman
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER
RUSSELLSVILLE, KY., June 26.—George Scott, a negro, was hanged by a mob here this morning at 1 o’clock. The mob overpowered…
Scott, Louisville Courier-Journal, June 27, 1898
TO A TREE
George Scott, Colored, Was Hanged By a Mob
IN RUSSELLVILLE SUBURBS
WAS IN AIL FOR AN ATTEMPT TO ASSAULT CRIMINALLY
LYNCHING A QUIET AFFAIR
Russellville, Ky., June 26.—[Special.]—Last midnight a mob took George Scott, colored, from the…
Scott, Hartford Ohio County News (Hartfold Herald), June 29, 1898
Lynched at Russellville.
RUSSELLVILLE, KY., June 26.—Last night a mob took George Scott, colored, from the county jail and hanged him to a tree in the southern suburbs of town. The gallows-tree was the same from which Dink and Arch Proctor were…
Scott, Hopkinsville Daily Kentuckian, June 4, 1898
Lynching Probable.
Nashville, Tenn., June 3.—George Scott, a young colored man, is in jail at Springfield, Tenn., charged with attempting criminal assault on Mrs. William Scoggins, wife of a well-to-do farmer living just across the line, in Logan…