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Colson & Smith, St. Louis Globe Democrat, July 3, 1895
Details of the Trigg (Ky.) Tragedy.
Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat.
HOPKINSVILLE, KY., July 2.—Additional details have been received here of the tragedy enacted in Trigg County Saturday evening, which resulted in the killing of three…
Colson & Smith, Louisville Courier Journal, July 2, 1895
SHOT-RIDDLED.
Four Alleged Bad Characters Brought to Earth.
TRIGG COUNTY TRAGEDY.
The Bloody Affair Started By An Ex-Convict.
Prospect for Lively Times in Carter County.
THE RAILROAD TAX AGAIN.
Hopkinsville, Ky., July 1—(Special.)—News reached…
Colson & Smith, Wilmington Morning News, July 3, 1895
FOUR PEOPLE SLAIN
Result of a Row Caused by a Kentucky Desperado.
HIMSELF WAS ONE OF THOSE KILLED
Abithah Colston Shot Down One Man and Then Another Who Was Bringing the First a Drink of Water—Lynchers Then Killed the Murderer and a…
Colson & Smith, Maysville Public Ledger, July 6, 1895
GAVE THEMSELVES UP.
The Slayers of Colston Claim to Have Acted in Self-Defense.
Hopkinsville, Ky., July 6.—The latest information received from the scene of the Trigg county tragedy, which resulted in the death of four persons, was to the effect…
Colson & Smith, Owensboro Twice-A-Week Messenger, July 3, 1895
FOUR OF THEM DEAD.
A Bad Man in Trigg County Goes Killing and Then Gets Killed
Along with a Notorious Woman Who accompanied Him in His Devilment.
A Ghastly Story from Western Kentucky That Reads Somewhat Like a Tale of the Mountains.
OTHER STATE…
Clifford, Union City Commercial Courier, August 23, 1907
NEGRO TAKEN FROM SHERIFF.
Assailant of Mrs. Cowan Expiates His Crime.
Tiptonville, Tenn., August 16.—Will Clifford, the negro who assaulted and murdered Mrs. Mary Cowan, was taken from the sheriff’s posse early yesterday morning, eighteen miles…
Clifford, Paducah Sun, August 17, 1907
LYNCHING
TAKES PLACE AT MAPLE, KY., FOLLOWING ASSAULT.
Tennessee Posse Follows Assailant and Murderer Across the Border.
Cincinnati, Aug. 17.—A Memphis dispatch to the Times-Star says: “Will Clifford, a negro, was arrested at Tiptonville, Tenn.,…
Clifford, Maysville Public Ledger, August 19, 1907
Will Clifford, a negro, was arrested at Tiptonville, Tenn., and confessed assaulting Mrs. Mary Cowan (white), and throwing her body into the river; also that he killed another woman a year ago. Constable Burrus secreted Clifford in a barn to avoid…
Clifford, Stanford Interior Journal, August 20, 1907
Will Clifford, a Negro, who confessed that he assaulted Mrs. Mary Cowan and threw her body into to the river, and that he had killed another white woman a year ago, was lynched by a mob at Maple, this State. Clifford was arrested at Tiptonville,…
Scott, Nashville Tennessean (Nashville American), June 3, 1898
SPIRITED HIM AWAY.
Charged With Attempted Assault, a Negro is Hidden by Officers.
SPRINGFIELD, June 2.—(Special.)—The community around Adairville, in Logan County, Ky., is greatly wrought up over an attempted assault upon Mrs. William Scoggins, by…