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Another Colored Man Lynched – His Body Horribly Mutilated PRINCETON, KY, Oct. 15 – Willis Griffey, the colored man confined to jail here, was lynched here last night at 11:30 o’clock by a mob of one hundred or more men. They went to the jail and…

A RACE RIOT. NEGROES ENDEAVORING TO WORK UP A RACE RIOT. Princeton, Ky., Oct. 22. – Considerable excitement is reported in South christian in the neighborhood of Lafayette and Peedee over the efforts of negro leaders to work up a race riot. The…

FOUND THE KEYS And Entering the Cell Dragged the Negro Out, Took Him Three Miles Down the Road And After Riddling Him With Bullets And Mutilating Him in a Horrible Manner Left His Dead Body Swinging From a Tree. Princeton, Ky., Oct. 15.…

ANOTHER ACCOUNT. HOPKINSVILLE, KY. Oct. 15. –[Special.]– Information has been received here to-day from Princeton to the effect that Willis Griffey, the colored brute who outraged the person of Miss Lena Berry, in the southern portion of this…

HENDERSON, KY., Oct. 15. –[Special.]– Willis Griffey, the negro fiend, who committed rape upon the person of Miss Lena Berry, in Christian County, about one month ago, and was soon afterwards arrested and quietly conveyed to the jail at Princeton…

RACE TROUBLES IN KENTUCKY. Colored People Threaten to Avenge the Lynching of Griffey. PRINCETON, Ky., Oct. 23. – There is considerable excitement in South Christian, in the neighborhood of Lafayette and Pee Dee, over the efforts of certain negro…

DOUSED The Glim at Winchester And Robert Haggard’s Life Went Out With It. Bob Was a Large-Sized Colored Man Who Made a Brutal Assault on a White Girl. He Was Caught and the Rope Put Around His Neck. The Sheriff’s Posse Arrived Just in…

Hung an Innocent Man. The lynching which occurred at Winchester, Ky., one day last week has turned out to be another case of “I told you so.” A colored man named Haggard was accused of committing an assault upon a girl and without giving a chance…

BUT WILL THEY DO IT? Clark County Grand Jury Advised To “Get a Move On.” [Louisville Commercial.] It seems to be pretty well settled that the Negro Bob Haggard, who was lynched for rape a short time ago, was innocent. Clark county people would do…

STABLE BURNED At the Winchester Fair Grounds Last Night By Incendiaries. A gentleman from Winchester this morning informs THE LEADER that the stable of John T. Jones, located at the fair grounds, near that place, was burned to the ground last…