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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…

Wick Willis, col., was lynched by a mob at Campbellsville, Kentucky., in Adair county, Monday night for an attempted outrage upon Miss Dice, a young white woman. The mob consisted of only six men and the jailer gave up the prisioner [sic] without…

Six men took Wick Willis from the jail at Lebanon and hung him. He was accused of attempting to rape Miss Dice in Adair county and was in the Lebanon jail to keep a mob from getting him.

Work of Whitecaps.A Bad Negro Lynched in Washington County Before His Trial.An Old Man at Paducah Stabs and Kills a Young Medical Student.French Testifies in the Murder Case at Barboursville-Flannery Acquitted at Brandenburg.Bloody Record in…

FULTON MOB HANGS NEGRO WHO SLASHED I.C. SPECIAL AGENTJail Doors Forced Open and Man is Swung Up to Nearby PoleMAN CUT IS HERE IN PRECARIOUS CONDITIONApparently No Resistance to Mob's Efforts

A MOB'S WORK.Berry Rich Called from his House in the Night and Hung.SOMETHING ABOUT WILLIAM GOODE.