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Dooley, Paducah News Democrat, February 18, 1902
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…
Dooley, Paducah Sun, February 19, 1902
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…
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, 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, Osceola Record, April 23, 1891
NEWS NOTES.
An armed mob shot and killed in Warren county, Ky., Will Skaggs, colored, an escaped murderer.
Sarver, Hopkinsville South Kentuckian, March 14, 1882
Bob. Sarver, col:. who assaulted Miss. Tennie Ruby near Franklin, Friday, the 3rd inst was taken from the officers and lynched by a mob on the following Monday night, at the place where he attempted to commit the crime. The young lady was a school…
Sarver, Paris Bourbon News, March 10, 1882
One hundred masked men took Bob Sarvers, a colored man who attempted to outrage a young Miss of fifteen, from a train near Franklin, and hung him.
Sarver, Marshall Tri-Weekly Herald, March 14, 1882
HUNG BY A MOB.—Nashville dispatch of the 7th: Bob Sarver, who attempted to outrage the person of Miss Tennie Ruley, near Franklin, Ky., Friday, was taken from the guards while they were endeavoring to take him to Bowling Green for safety, Monday…