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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.

Audience Shoots a Negro Lynched in Opera House Kentucky Town is Scene of Most Melodramatic Act of Vengeance Ever Enacted----------------------PRICE PAID FOR SHOOTING NEGRO Calhoun, Ky., April 21.--With militia upon the scene to prevent a race…

Realism With a Vengeance At Livermore, KY. Negro Hung in Opera House---Mob Fills Swaying Body With Shot at So Much, Per---Seats on Sale---Brought Good Prices. Special to THE FREEMAN Not many people have known of such a town as Livermore, Ky. And…

WHO KILLED BILL DOOLEY? W. M. POTTS HELD FOR TRAIL BOND FIXED AT $5,000The examining trial of W. M. Potts, charged with killing Bill Dooley, a negro, at Fulton, last week, was held before Judge Kearby, Tuesday and Wednesday last and resulted in…

RACE CLASH MAY COME AT FULTON The Lynching of Bill Dooley Excites the Negro Population FEAR OF TROUBLE WITH THE BLACKS FELT LAST NIGHT. WHITES READY FOR OUTBREAK More Details of the Mobbing, But No Proof That the Victim Committed a…

A HARMLESS NEGRO SHOT BY UNKNOWN MEN.Fulton Council Offers Reward of $200 For the Conviction of the Guilty Persons. Fulton, Ky., Feb. 15. - [Special.] - Bill Dooley, a harmless negro, was dragged from his house last night by three men and shot. The…