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Brown, Los Angeles Herald, February 6, 1902
Kentucky Mob Lynches Negro
Takes Him From Officers and Hangs Him to Tree– The Man Had Assaulted a White Girl, Miss Delia Powell, and Being Fully Identified By Her, Was Swiftly Punished for His Awful Crime
Nicholasville, Ky., Feb. 6– Tom Brown, the…
Buckles, The Owensboro Messenger, November 18, 1902
Was Hanged By Mob
Harlan Buckles Had Been Given Life Sentence in Prison– Jury’s Verdict Did Not Please Them– Was Hanged Sunday Morning– Jailer Patterson Was at Depot Loading Stock When Mob Made Raid On His Bastile
Elizabethtown, Ky., Nov. 17–…
Carter, Louisville Courier-Journal, February 12, 1901
Bad Man
Hanged at Courthouse Gate in Paris– George Carter the Victim– Mob Composed of About Twenty-Five Men– The Negro’s Black Record
Paris, Ky., Feb. 11– [Special]– George Carter, a negro aged about twenty-one years, was hanged to the arch over…
Scott, Danville Advocate-Messenger, January 25, 1934
Youth Accused of Slugging is Lynched by Mob
20-Year-Old Negro Is Taken From Hazard Jail and Shot to Death– Three Men Arrested– Investigation Is Started By Officers In Perry County Today
Hazard, Ky., Jan. 25– Four men were held for questioning today…
Fields and Garnett, The Lexington Herald, October 3, 1901
Two Negro Boys Were Lynched at Shelbyville
Found Hanging to Bridge at Daylight; Had Murdered Printer
Shelbyville, Ky., Oct. 2– “We, the jury, find that Jimbo Fields and Clarence Garnett came to their death upon the C & O railroad trestle by…
Dudley, Lexington Weekly Leader, September 3, 1891
Terror
Reigns in the Midst of Georgetown– Wild Rumors About a Negro Outbreak– Fifty Mounted Guards Help Keep Watch– State Troops Wanted by Citizens– But Frankfort Connection Can’t Be Had– Demoralized State of Affairs in General– Armed Men Patrol the…
Marshall and Patterson, Lexington Herald-Leader, January 16, 1911
Body of One Mob Victim Missing in Shelbyville
Jim West is Not Thought to Have Escaped– Best Citizens of the Town Insist That Courts Investigate the Lynching of Sunday in Which Three Met Death at Hands of Twenty Armed and Masked Men– All Were Negroes…
Marshall and Patterson, Lexington Herald-Leader, February 1, 1911
Arm Was Broken
Jim West Saved His Neck in Shelbyville Lynching, But Was Hurt in Fall
Shelbyville, Ky., Feb. 1–Private detectives who have been at work in Shelbyville for weeks are said to have discovered a mass of evidence as to the operation of…
Boston, The Frankfort Roundabout, August 18, 1894
Lynch Law
A Negro Rapist Pays The Penalty Of His Crime– Hung Upon The Bridge At Midnight– By a Mob of Five Hundred Men
The people of this city and county took the law into their own hands Tuesday night and executed swift justice upon the…
Henderson, Lexington Herald-Leader, August 21, 1890
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,–…