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Pulliam, Lexington Herald-Leader, July 21, 1891
Took A Brute’s Life
An Enraged Mob Hangs A Shelbyville Rapist— His Foul Crime Sets a Whole Community On Fire, and Hundreds of Men Surround the Field Where it Was Committed, But Only Catch Him Later
Shelbyville, Ky., July 20– Sam Pulliam, a…
Tarpin, Junction City Tribune, April 27, 1876
At Danville, Ky., on the night of the 15th, four masked men entered the Jail and took therefrom Jim Tarpin, who was imprisoned for committing an outrage on a little girl at Perryville. The next morning Tarpin's body was found suspended from a tree.
Harper, Lexington Weekly Leader, December 29, 1892
Bob Harper Dies
At the Hands of a Mob at Bowling Green— Sudden Ending to the Inquiry in Progress— The Prisoner Captured in the Court House— And Hung From a Beech street in the Fair Grounds
Bowling Green, Ky., Dec. 28– Bob Harper has paid the…
Miller, The Hickman Courier, July 14, 1893
Vengeance
C.J. Miller, the Murderer of the Ray Sisters, Hanged
Bardwell, Ky., July 8– C.J. Miller, the mulatto charged with outraging and murdering Mary Ray and her little sister, and whom the people of Bardwell had resolved to burn at the…
Walker, Lexington Herald-Leader, October 13, 1908
Full Text
of Governor’s Reward Offer
Denounces Massacre of Negro Family and Calls Upon People to Wipe Out Kentucky’s Awful Disgrace
Following is the full text of Governor Willson’s vigorous proclamation offering a reward of $500 for the…
Richardson, The Paducah Sun-Democrat, September 26, 1913
Negro Put to Death By A Mob
Joe Richardson Who Attempted Assault on 11-year-old Girl Is Hung in Public— Story of Child on Stand Inflamed Hearers Who Came to Jail at Midnight— Siezed [sic] Jailer and Took His Keys Away— Citizens Wake To See…
Bushrod, Louisville Courier-Journal, September 27, 1897
A Rope
And Willing Hands and Judge Lynch’s Court Was Over— Negro Ravisher Hanged— An Unmasked Mob At Hawesville Took Bushrod’s Life— The Sheriff Was Outwitted— Was Just About To Remove the Criminal To Owensboro For Safe-Keeping— Confessed and Then…
Mays, Lexington Herald-Leader, January 16, 1902
Mob’s Work
Negro Hanged Near Springfield, Ky., for a Terrible Crime -- It Was An Orderly Job
Springfield, Ky., Jan. 11– Jim Mays, a Negro, charged with assaulting Lulu Jeans, daughter of Joseph Jeans, one of the most prominent farmers in the…
Petty, Louisville Courier-Journal, May 10, 1884
They Got Him,
After Being Thrice Baffled in Former Attempts, a Determined Mob at Last Treats Miles Petty to the
Death of the Dastard
Elizabethtown, May 9– Last night about 1 o’clock sixteen masked and armed men rode into town, hitched their…
Petty, Owensboro Messenger, May 27, 1884
Fleeing from Judge Lynch
An Exodus of Negros from Hardin County— Lynching of Miles Petty the Alleged Cause
[Louisville Commercial]
The colored people of Hardin county, Ky., will make a general exodus to Kansas. Two hundred of them have made…