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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…
Henley and Thornhill, The Washington Post, October 17, 1916
Race Rioting Is Feared
Saloons at Paducah Cloesd [sic] After Two Men Are Lynched
Paducah, Ky., Oct. 16– On the heels of two lynchings here today, Paducah prepared for possible further trouble tonight by ordering its saloons to remain closed,…
Wilson, Louisville Courier-Journal, October 11, 1873
The Latest Outrage
The Kuklux of Owen, frightened from their native haunts by the recent vigorous prosecution of their gang in that county, seem to have betaken themselves to Franklin, where one of their cowardly exploits was perpetrated the other…
Taylor, Maysville Evening Bulletin, August 29, 1893
A Very Quiet Mob
They Take a Negro Out and String Him Up to a TreeLouisville, Aug. 29-- Late at night about 30 horsemen rode into Newcastle, the county seat of Henry county, and, waking up Joel Head, the jailer, told them they had a prisoner.When…
Macklin, Louisville Courier-Journal, July 8, 1868
The Pulpit and the Bar
Father Lambert Young— Letter from Hon. John L. Scott to Judge Ballard
The case of Father Lamber Young drags, and will not be finally disposed of for two or three months to come. He was fined fifty dollars and costs by…
Buckner, Owensboro Twice-A-Week Messenger, December 1, 1915
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.,…