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Meet Death By Fire MAN AND WOMAN BURNED ALIVE IN KENTUCKY. -------- Mrs. T. J. West Cremated and W. A Deveres [sic] Bullet-Ridden-Prayer of a Little Child Has No Effect on the Band of Brutal Outlaws. -------- Mob’s Awful Deed. In Marion County,…

To The End of the Law Governor Bradley Will Do All in His Power to Punish the Guilty. Cincinnati, O., Dec. 31.--The Commercial Gazette’s special from Frankfort, Ky., says: Governor Bradley feels that the law has been greatly outraged and the state…

Prompted by Revenge Theory of the Double Assassination in Marion County. ------------- Even this Belief Affords No Clew To the Murderers. ------------- WEST A DANGEROUS MAN Lebanon, Ky., Jan. 6.--(Special.)--At the end of a week the identity of…

Shocking Assassination. Horrible Crime of a Marion County Mob. ------ WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. ------ Her Paramour Shot Down As He Fled. ------ DONE AT MIDNIGHT. ------ Mrs. T. J. West and William Dever the Victims. ----- THEIR MURDERERS…

Burned Alive. A Mob Wreaks Vengeance on a Faithless Woman. ---------------- They Attack the House in Which She and Her Paramour Resided. -------------- Failing to Get the Couple Out They Fire the Dwelling--The Man, Attempting to Escape, is Shot…

Now It’s Women They Burn Southern Mob H lds [sic] an Auto-Da-Fe to Punish Suspected Immorality. Lebanon, Ky., Dec. 30.--Within two miles of this city Saturday night a relentless mob burned to death a woman and riddled with bullets her grayhaired…

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

Article TranscriptionTitle: LYNCHEDBut There is No One to Tell Anything

Negro is Run Out. Trenton, Ky. - There is no truth in the report sent out that George Tutt, colored, was taken from jail here by a mob of masked men. Tutt was sent to jail for carrying concealed weapons and when his sentence expired he was ordered…

TO ANSWER CHARGE OF FALSE SWEARING George Tutt, Colored, Arrested in Louisville and Brought Here… Thursday Afternoon (From Friday’s Daily.) George Tutt, colored, indicated at the last term of court for false swearing was arrested in Louisville…