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ANOTHER NEGRO LYNCHED FOR THE “USUAL CRIME” Louisville, Ky., July 7. – A special from Shelbyville, Ky., says “Lon” Beard, the negro who was arrested charged with assaulting a white woman at Normandy, was lynched there to-day. He was being taken to…

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…

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…

Negro LynchedVirgil Bowers Hanged to an Apple Tree One Half Mile From Jail

Strung UpVirgil Bowers, Negro Murderer of George Farris, Lynched by Laurel County Mob

ANOTHER MASKED MOB INVADES RUSSELLVILLEHangs Four Negroes Who Were in Jail Charged With Complicity in the Cunningham Murder.

Brinkley, Messenger Inquirer, 23 July 1897 Ephraim Brinkley Hanged in Broad Daylight in Hop-Kins County. He Was Suspected of Having Murdered a Wealthy Farmer Named Troullias. A Georgia Negro Rapist Hanged in the Courthouse Yard by a Crowd of…

Into Eternity Went Ephraim Brinkley at the End of a Rope Last Wednes-day Night. HANGED BY AN AVENGING MOB. The Slayer of Trouillas Meets Death Near Nebo, at the Very Door of the Man He Murdered. Ephraim Brinkley was hanged by a mob of men on last…

Prompt and Just Punishment. Last week, a negro assaulted Miss Della Powell, a prominent young lady, near her home in Jessamine county, dragging her from a buggy on the public highway, just before dark. The negro was taken to jail, and next morning…

Prompt and Just Punishment. Last week, a negro assaulted Miss Della Powell, a prominent young lady, near her home in Jessamine county, dragging her from a buggy on the public highway, just before dark. The negro was taken to jail, and next morning…