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Shannon, Lexington Herald-Leader, October 28, 1924
Mob Shoots Alleged Slayer to Death, Takes Victim From a Jail
Paintsville, Ky., Oct. 28– Marching to the jail at Wayland, Ky., late Sunday night, a mob composed of about 200 reputed residents of Floyd county, with sledge hammer and drills battered…
Smith, The Bourbon News, April 2, 1920
Negro Taken From Paris Officer Is Lynched
When The News closed its report Monday night if the action of a mob of men in taking officers at this point Grant Smith, colored, wanted in Fleming county, on a charge of criminal assault, it was not known…
Lewis, Louisville Courier-Journal, December 17, 1918
Mob Batters Down Jail Doors and Hangs Negro
Officials Helpless While Crowd Takes Former Soldier Away From Them
Hickman, Ky., Dec. 16– An infuriated mob broke down the huge iron doors of the county jail here early morning, forcibly took Charlie…
James, Letter to Walter White, March 24, 1921
Enclosed you will find important clippings relative to the Versailles lynching. You will note that the Governor has refused to reinstate the Jailer of Versailles. I think this article a very important one as it shown the attitude of out Governor to…
James, NAACP Memo, March 29, 1921
Lynching Town Boycotted By State Medical Society
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, today announced receipt of news that the State Medical Society of Kentucky had voted to call off a meeting which it had…
James, Richmond Daily Register, March 17, 1921
Governor to Hear Jailer’s Plea on 23d
Woodford Official From Whom Mob Took Prisoner to Lynch Says He Wasn’t at Fault
Frankfort, Ky., March 17– John H. Edger, Versailles, who was removed from the office of county jailer of Woodford County by…
Johnson and Washington, The New York Times, August 9, 1871
Kentucky Elections
Rioting Reported in Various Places– Two Whites Killed in Frankfort– Negro Prisoners Lynched
FRANKFORT, Ky., Aug. 8– A riot commenced here last evening after the closing of the polls. A short scuffle arose among several negroes,…
Parker and Turpin, The Woodford Weekly, August 12, 1870
The Ku-Klux
Grim Death Among Us
We have to record the doings of the “King of Terrors” among us-- king of terror and terror of kings; the doings of Death. He came ghastly, if reports be true; and the work he did appeared ghastly enough on yesterday…
Sanders, Louisville Courier-Journal, March 12, 1917
Negro, Defying Posse, Killed
Maysville Chief of Police Among Five Wounded— Desperado Is Surrounded In Barn On Farm— Held Pursuers At Bay
Maysville, Ky., March 1– William Sanders, a negro, shot and badly wounded Chief of Police James Mackey and…
Sanders, Maysville Public Ledger, March 12, 1917
Posse Kills Negro
After He Wounds Five Persons With Shotgun, Including Chief of Police— Will Sanders Made To Pay The Penalty At The Hands Of A Large Crowd Of Men For Stealing An Overcoat— Charles Swisher, a Passerby Seriously Injured by a Shot in…