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BLOODSHED AT LAST. Officer Bob Coffey Assassinated at Empire Saturday.Slain While Searching the Woods for a Party of Strikers who Fired on Guards. The reign of lawlessness at Empire on Saturday culminated in the slaughter of Robt. H. Coffey, of…

SHOT FROM AMBUSH. Union Strikers Under Arrest Suspected of Crime. (By Associated Press.) HOPKINSVILLE, KY., Oct. 26.—Special Officer Robert Coffey, chief of the guards at the Empire Mines, was killed to-day from ambush. He had been leading a…

MINE GUARD Killed from Ambush at Empire Mines in Christian County. Detective Murdered as He Search [sic] for Hidden Marauders.Three Men are Under Arrest Charged With Having Fired the Fatal Shot.FIRST BLOOD THAT HAS BEEN SHED Hopkinsville, Ky., Oct.…

ASSASSINATION OF COFFEY. Brave Officer Shot Down From Ambush Near the Empire Mine.WAS FOLLOWING UNION OUTLAWS WHEN KILLED.Party of Unionists Had Fired on Guard Preceding Miners Going Peaceably to WorKFIVE UNION MEN ARE UNDER ARRESTIndignation…

Rock Tied Around His Neck. Body of Joe Bumpass, Who Was Lynched At Hickman, Found. Hickman, Ky., Sept. 1.--[Special.]--The body of Joe Bumpass was found in the river this afternoon by Jim Ringgold. When found his feet and hands were bound and a…

Kentucky Mob Drowns Negro Takes Him from Jail and Throws Him Into the Mississippi. Special to The New York Times HICKMAN, Ky., Aug. 30.--Joe Bumpass, a negro, was taken from the county jail at 1 o’clock this morning by a mob and drowned in the…

Lynched! Negro, Joe Bumpus, Taken From Jail and Put to Death--Supposed to Have Been Drowned. Joe Bumpus, the black fiend, who was charged with the crime of attempted rape on the person of a respectable white girl near Jordan in this county, was…

Into Eternity Went Ephraim Brinkley at the End of a Rope Last Wednes-day Night. HANGED BY AN AVENGING MOB. The Slayer of Trouillas Meets Death Near Nebo, at the Very Door of the Man He Murdered. Ephraim Brinkley was hanged by a mob of men on last…

Brinkley, Messenger Inquirer, 23 July 1897 Ephraim Brinkley Hanged in Broad Daylight in Hop-Kins County. He Was Suspected of Having Murdered a Wealthy Farmer Named Troullias. A Georgia Negro Rapist Hanged in the Courthouse Yard by a Crowd of…

Hired to Assail a Woman. HICKMAN, Ky., June 12–Three months ago two negroes, Henry Colbert and Pete Hunt, made an assault on Mrs, Lizzie Pratcher. East of here. The men were arrested, and confessed that they had been hired by Hugh Wood, a white man,…