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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,–…
Coleman, Louisville Courier-Journal, December 7, 1899
The Latest
Richard Coleman, colored, the confessed murderer of Mrs. James Lashbrooke, was burned to death by a mob at Maysville yesterday. Immediately upon his arrival from Covington in charge of the officers he was surrounded by several thousand…
Coleman, Maysville Evening Bulletin, December 12, 1899
Timely Advice to Colored People
We regret to notice a disposition among the less intelligent of the colored people to attribute the recent expression of public sentiment in regard to the crime of Richard Coleman to the existence of a deep seated…
Maxey, Lexington Herald-Leader, June 3, 1909
Lynched on Capital Bridge
Mob at Frankfort Hangs John Maxey And Then Riddles His Body With Bullets– Victim Had Fatally Shot Bert Bowers, Of Kansas, A Director Howe Circus– Lexington Detectives Save Man From Probable Death Earlier in the Night, But…
Maxey, Lexington Herald-Leader, June 4, 1909
Nothing Likely to Be Done
About the Lynching of John Maxey, a Negro, By a Mob at Frankfort Thursday– Governor Willson Denounces Work of the Masked Gang, But the State is Powerless– Those Who Took Part in the Affair Are Believed to Have Been Composed…
Maxey, Lexington Herald-Leader, June 5, 1909
Lynching Denounced
In Bishop Penick’s Resolution, But It Is Tabled At Frankfort– He Stated That all Male Citizens in Frankfort Were Placed Under Suspicion by Murder of John Maxey.
Frankfort, Ky., June 5– The Citizens’ Improvement Association,…