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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…

ARRESTS MADETWO MEN ACCUSED OF MURDER OF BILL DOOLEY.One of the Prisoners a Police Officer - Fulton is Quiet, But Great Indignation Prevails. Fulton, Ky., Feb. 18. - Police Officer R. M. Potts and Hardee Beasley were arrested this morning charged…

TRIALS SOON.SUSPECTED POLICEMAN AND HIS ACCOMPLICE ARE AT HICKMAN.Fulton, Ky., Feb. 19. - The examining trials of R. M. Potts and Hardee Beasley will probably take place the latter part of the week at Hickman, Ky. They were arrested as suspects for…

KILLED BY A MOB. A Murderer Meets Sudden Retribution at the Hands of Masked Men in Warren County. BOWLING GREEN, KY., April 16.--At 2 o’clock this afternoon the news was received at this town of a mob that visited the old Union neighborhood, this…

Seven White Curs Kill a Boy BOWLING GREEN. KY.--William Skaggs, a colored boy eighteen years old, met death, early last week Thursday morning, a victim to mob violence, in the country about two miles from this city. Skaggs, on Tuesday, went up into…

FILLED WITH BULLETS. FATE OF A NEGRO BOY WHO CUT A WHITE ONEA Mob's Vengeance About Two Miles from Bowling Green, Kentucky-The Victim of the Cutting Will Also Pass in His Checks Special to THE LEADER Bowling, Green, KY., April 17.—William Skaggs,…