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Smith, The Bourbon News, April 2, 1920
Negro Taken From Paris Officer Is Lynched
When The News closed its report Monday night if the action of a mob of men in taking officers at this point Grant Smith, colored, wanted in Fleming county, on a charge of criminal assault, it was not known…
Skaggs, Osceola Record, April 23, 1891
NEWS NOTES.
An armed mob shot and killed in Warren county, Ky., Will Skaggs, colored, an escaped murderer.
Skaggs, Nashville Tennessean, April 17, 1891
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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…
Skaggs, Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, April 17, 1891
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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…
Skaggs, Lexington Herald-Leader (Kentucky Leader), April 17, 1891
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,…
Skaggs, Kansas City Times, April 17, 1891
A Murder Summarily Avenged.
LOUISVILLE, KY., APRIL 16–Seven masked men visited the old Union neighborhood near Bowling Green early this morning and shot to death Will Skaggs, a negro 18 years of age, who on Tuesday fatally cut a young white man…
Skaggs, Hartford Ohio County News, April 22, 1891
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…
Skaggs, Cleveland Gazette, April 25, 1891
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…
Skaggs, Anaconda Standard, April 17, 1891
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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.
Shannon, Lexington Herald-Leader, October 28, 1924
Mob Shoots Alleged Slayer to Death, Takes Victim From a Jail
Paintsville, Ky., Oct. 28– Marching to the jail at Wayland, Ky., late Sunday night, a mob composed of about 200 reputed residents of Floyd county, with sledge hammer and drills battered…