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WAS CAPTURED THIS MORNING Brown Attacked Girl In Secluded Road as She Was Returning From School–Girl Is But Fifteen Years Old. Scripps-McRae Telegram NICHOLASVILER, Ky., Feb. 6. – Tom Brown, a negro was lynched here at noon today by an…

TERRIBLE CRIME NEAR NICHOLASVILLE GIRL RETURNING FROM LEXINGTON WAS DRAGGED FROM HER CONVEYANCE BY A BRUTAL NEGRO. NICHOLASVILLE, Ky., Feb. 5. – (Special) – The entire community was aroused tonight when it was heard that Miss Della Powelll, the…

LYNCHED IN NICHOLASVILLE AT HIGH NOON NEGRO WHO COMMITTEE DREADFUL CRIME HANGED FROM TREE IN COURT HOUSE YARD BY A MOB. NICHOLASVILLE, Ky., Feb. 6. – (Associated Press.) – Tom Brown, the negro arrested last night charged with criminally assaulting…

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…

TOM BROWN SWINGS. Negro Allowed to Live Until Identified by Victim and Then Lynched in the Courthouse Yard. BY THE NEW ASSOCIATED PRESS–P.M. NICHOLLASVILLE (Ky.) Feb. 6. – Tom Brown, the negro who assaulted Miss Della Powell yesterday, was taken…

Lynched Negro Who Ravished Miss Power in Jessamine County– Took Him from the Officers and Strung Him Up– The Girl Earnestly Begged That He Be Not Hanged Near Her Home Fully Identified By His VictimNicholasville, Ky., Feb. 6– Tom Brown, the negro…

Lynched in Daytime Tom Brown, Identified as a Ravisher, Hanged at Jail Door Nicholasville, Ky., Feb. 6– Tom Brown, colored, was taken from the officers at the jail door this afternoon at one o’clock and lynched in the court house yard in the…

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–…

Negro Hanged By a Henderson Mob Ellis Buckner Lynched While Jailer Is Held Prisoner— Quick Action Follows Arrest on Girl’s Complaint— He Attacks Mary Hardin— Crowd Disbands After the Prisoner Is Hanged to Tree at River Front Henderson, Ky.,…

Rock Tied Around His Neck. Body of Joe Bumpass, Who Was Lynched At Hickman, Found. Hickman, Ky., Sept. 1.--[Special.]--The body of Joe Bumpass was found in the river this afternoon by Jim Ringgold. When found his feet and hands were bound and a…