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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

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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…

Lynching Reported in Todd County Man Arrested for Carrying a Concealed Weapon Taken From Jail by Masked Gang. (Special to The Leader.) LOUISVILLE, KY., April 3. - George Tutt, colored, is said to have been taken from jail at Trenton, Todd county,…

Negro is Gone - Where? Nashville, Tenn., April 3. - A Hopkinsville, Ky., dispatch to the Banner says that George Tutt, colored, has mysteriously disappeared from Trenton, Ky., where he was in jail on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. He is…

Prisoner Whipped; Freed. Mob Takes Man From Jail and Drives Him From Country. Hopkinsville, Ky., April 3. - George Tutt, colored, who was in jail at Trenton, Ky., on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, was taken from the prison by thirty or…

Edwin Traughber Murder. Prominent Kentuckians Said to Be Guilty of the Crime. Special to the Republic. Clarksville, Tenn., Sept. 27.--Much excitement is reported from Adairville, Southern Kentucky, 35 miles from here, since the convening of the…

Traughber Lynching. Jury Failed to Agree--Four Were Defendants. Special to The Republic. Clarksville, Tenn., Fe. 22--The highly sensational trial of William Proctor, F. P. Apgar, Moses Cook, Jr. and Robert Henderson for the lynching of Edwin…