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LIFE TERM UPHELD Frank McDaniel Must Serve His Sentence in Prison [Special to the Herald] FRANKFORT, Ky., Jan. 10. – The life prison sentence imposed upon Frank McDaniel by Clay circuit court for the murder of C. P. Stivers, police judge of…

JUDGE WAS IMPLICATED HARLAND, Ky., April 19 – Police Judge C. P. Stivers, slain at Manchester Saturday, was implicated in the sensational “Bath House slaying” at Lynch, Ky., in 1921 in which three men were shot to death.C. P. Stivers; his brother,…

WITNESS IN UNSOLVED SLAYING FATALLY SHOT Ill-Feeling Growing Out of Case Blamed for Death of Police Judge. By The Associated Press. MANCHESTER, Ky., April 16. – Police Judge C. P. Stivers, 40, a grand jury witness in an unsolved slaying here, was…

THE NECKTIE ROUTE. A Rope Placed Around Elmer Hill’s Neck and He is Jerked into Eternity. ABOUT THIRTY MEN DID THE WORK. The expected happened last Wednesday night when a mob of about thirty or forty citizens of Russell county visited the…

ELMER HILL IS HUNG BY MOB Was Taken Out Last Night at Monticello and Lynched. A mob at Monticello, Ky., last night found and took out of jail and hanged Elmer Hill, the white man charged with assault upon and the murder of his thirteen-year-old…

FULL STORY OF HILL LYNCHING Confesses Crime and Mob Sings Hymn Before Hanging Murderer. DANVILLE, Ky., Dec. 18. – Elmer Hill, confessed child-murdered, paid the death penalty for his crimes Wednesday night. As the hangmen were looping the rope…

TOM BROWN SWINGS. Negro Allowed to Live Until Identified by Victim and Then Lynched in the Courthouse Yard. BY THE NEW ASSOCIATED PRESS–P.M. NICHOLLASVILLE (Ky.) Feb. 6. – Tom Brown, the negro who assaulted Miss Della Powell yesterday, was taken…

WAS CAPTURED THIS MORNING Brown Attacked Girl In Secluded Road as She Was Returning From School–Girl Is But Fifteen Years Old. Scripps-McRae Telegram NICHOLASVILER, Ky., Feb. 6. – Tom Brown, a negro was lynched here at noon today by an…

Prompt and Just Punishment. Last week, a negro assaulted Miss Della Powell, a prominent young lady, near her home in Jessamine county, dragging her from a buggy on the public highway, just before dark. The negro was taken to jail, and next morning…

RAIDERS REVENGE DIXON RACE RIOT The Negro Who Killed Berry is Summarily Executed Take Him Out of Town And Shoot Him by the Roadside. Dixon, Ky., May 31. – Final revenge for the Providence race riot of March 14, in which two white traveling men…