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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…

Terror Reigns in the Midst of Georgetown– Wild Rumors About a Negro Outbreak– Fifty Mounted Guards Help Keep Watch– State Troops Wanted by Citizens– But Frankfort Connection Can’t Be Had– Demoralized State of Affairs in General– Armed Men Patrol the…

Killed By A Mob A Negro at Hodgenville Shot Full of HolesHodgenville, Ky., Oct. 31– A mob of 50 or 75 determined citizens arrived in town about 2 o’clock this morning and took from jail Silas Esters, the negro who forced Granville Ward, a…

Two Negro Boys Were Lynched at Shelbyville Found Hanging to Bridge at Daylight; Had Murdered Printer Shelbyville, Ky., Oct. 2– “We, the jury, find that Jimbo Fields and Clarence Garnett came to their death upon the C & O railroad trestle by…

Article TranscriptionTitle: LYNCHEDBut There is No One to Tell Anything

Hanged To A Tree.A Negro Who Ran a White Man With a Knife Quietly Lynched in the Night.

LYNCHED, IF CAUGHT. Brutal Assault on a Kentucky Lady by a Negro Fiend. Clarksville, Tenn., Sept. 29. – News has reached here of one of the foulest attempts at rape ever committed in Southern Kentucky. An adopted daughter of Mr. Davis, at…

CAUGHT THE BRUTE. Willis Griffey Captured by Officers Near Madisonville. Taken to Princeton, Ky., and Lodged in Jail There to Prevent Lynching. The LEAF-CHRONICLE contained an article Saturday about the search in this vicinity for Willis Griffey,…

A KENTUCKY LYNCHING. A Mob Endeavored to Make the Punishment Fit the Crime. PRINCETON, Ky., Oct. 15. – Willis Giffey, the fiend confined in jail here, has paid the penalty of his crime. Sunday night at 11:30 o’clock a mob of 100 or more men entered…

Hopkinsville, Ky., Oct. 15. –[Special.]– There was a ripple of excitement here to-day when it became known that a mob of men had taken Griffey from the Princeton jail and hanged him. The Christian county grand jury, which is still in session,…