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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…

BAIL REFUSED. Five Prominent Citizens of Logan County Held for Murder for Participating in a Lynching. RUSSELLVILLE, Ky., Aug. 14.--[Special.]--At the examining trial held here to-day bail was refused Frederick P. Apgar, Wm. B. Proctor, Moses Cook,…

Charged With Murder. RUSSELLVILLE, Ky., Aug. 2.--Moses Cook and Robert Henderson, two prominent citizens, were arrested yesterday charged with the murder of Edwin Traughber, who was hanged by masked men on July 15. It is said three others will be…

A Terrible Deed. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 15.--During the trial of the men charged with lynching Edwin Traughber, Thursday, Prince McGuire, a colored man, swore he was compelled to assist in the crime, and that the four whites made him, after they…

Lynched Russellville, Ky., July 17.--The body of Edwin Traughber was found hanging to a limb in a thicket near Adairville. Sunday night masked men went to his home at Adairville and after calling him out tied his hands and feet and carried him to a…

Two more sensational arrests were made in connection with the brutal hanging of Edwin Traughber at Adairsville, Logan county, July 15. They are Robert Traughber, cousin to the murdered man, and Thomas Mackey, a well known livery man of Adairsville.