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Article Transcription Title: A Warren County Negro Was Lynched. HE INSULTED A WHITE WOMAN Quick Work of a Small Mob From Rockfield. THE GUARDS WERE OVERPOWERED Bowling Green, Ky., Feb. 4.—(Special.)—Robert Morton, colored, was hanged by a mob…

Article Transcription Title: JUDGE LYNCH HOLDS COURT And as a Result Robert Morton’s Body Dangled at the End of a Limb. A MOB’S QUICK VENGEANCE Negro Had Written an Insulting Note to a Reputable Young White Woman Near Bowling Green. BOWLING…

Article Transcription Title: NOT LYNCHED. Warren County Negro Boy Who Wrote a Young Lady a Note Only Whipped. Bowling Green, Ky., Feb. 8.—Robert Morton, the negro boy who was taken from his home near Rockfield, ten miles south of Bowling Green,…

Article Transcription Title: HE WROTE A LETTER. For That Offense Robert Morton, a Negro, Was Hanged by a Kentucky Mob.BOWLING GREEN, Ky., Feb. 6.—Wednesday night near Rockfield, a little station on the Louisville & Nashville, ten miles from…

LYNCHED AT NIGHT.A Murderer in Bullitt County Taken From Jail and Hung to a Tree. …

Article Transcription Title: Lynched a Negro Murderer. Louisville, Ky., April 16.—Near Bowling Green, seven masked men visited the Old Union neighborhood at an early hour this morning and shot to death Will Skaggs, a negro, 18 years of age, who on…

Article Transcription Title: Shot by Masked Men. LOUISVILLE, KY. April 15.—Near Bowling Green seven masked men visited the old union this morning and shot to death Will Skaggs, a negro, who on Tuesday fatally cut a young white man named Kirby.

ANOTHER MASKED MOB INVADES RUSSELLVILLEHangs Four Negroes Who Were in Jail Charged With Complicity in the Cunningham Murder.

MobHanged White Prisoner.William Thacker Dragged From Jail At Flemingsburg And Strung Up.Had Twice Been Given a Life Sentence For Murder of John Gordon and Was Awaiting Third Trial.

Article Transcription Title: KENTUCKY. A Young Negro Boy Brutally Shot to Death by a Mob. BOWLING GREEN, April 16.—[Special.] At an early hour this morning a mob, composed of seven masked men, visited the house of Boyd Johnson, a negro, in the old…