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Mob Lynches Man Jailed In Blast Masked Crowd Raids Bastille in Princeton, KY,; Victim Found on GibbetPRINCETON, Ky., June 1 (I.N.S.).--Walter Merrick, 45, white farmer, was taken from his cell in the county jail here by a masked mob early today,…

Negro Lynched In Trigg Co.

Hanged To A Tree.A Negro Who Ran a White Man With a Knife Quietly Lynched in the Night.

Strung UpVirgil Bowers, Negro Murderer of George Farris, Lynched by Laurel County Mob

Kentuckian Hanged By Lynching Party Princeton, KY., June 1.--(AP)--Walter Merrick, 48, was removed from the county jail by a mob late Tuesday night, and his body was found Wednesday hanging from a tree three miles away. The lynching party entered…

KENTUCKY LYNCHERS FREE; OFFICERS REFUSE TO TAKE ANY STEP TO ARREST THEM “I’ve Got Nothing to Say,” Is Only Answer Sheriff Will Give; County Attorney Won’t Make It His Business. ------------------------- KLU-KLUX TERRORS ARE…

Lynchers Took Dynamiter Out and Hanged Him Was Prisoner in Kentucky Jail- He Had Blown Up Store and Injured the Proprietor Princeton, KY, June 1--(UP)--Masked men in autos rode up to the jail here to-day and removed Walter Merrick, 40, a prisoner,…

Kentuckians Lynch Dynamite Suspect Man Awaiting Trial on Charge of Blowing Up Store Is Seized in Night at Princeton--------------------------------------- JAILOR BOUND BY CAPTORS------------------------------------- Victim Was Accused of Setting…

Lynched At Day A Black Devil Hanged To a Tree Near Campbellsville.----------------------Taken From the Lebanon Jail By An Adair County Mob.---------------------His Crime the Attempted Outrage of a Helpless Young Woman.…

His Neck Cracked A Negro Ravisher Hanged to a Tree Near Champbellsville.------------------------ The Marion County Jailer Overpower And The Brute Quietly Taken Out.---------------------- He Was Started Back To The Scene of the Crime, but…