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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…