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Article Transcription Untitled Bob Sarver, colored, was lynched in Simpson county, Ky., Monday night for attempted rape on a bright young white girl named Sina Ruley, on last Friday. Her screams brought help and the fiend got off but was arrested…

HANGED BY A MOB. A NEGRO LYNCHED IN TENNESSEE FOR AN ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE. NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 7.—Bob Sarver, who attempted to outrage the person of Miss Tennie Ruby, near Franklin, Ky., last Friday, was taken from his guards while they were…

FRANKLIN. A BLACK BRUTE BOBS UP SERENELY IN THE TITLE ROLE OF A LYNCHING DRAMA. [Special to the Courier-Journal.] FRANKLIN, March 6.—A negro man by the name of Bob Sarver was taken from the custody of officers to-nightm as he was being passed into…

SWIFT AND SURE Is the Justice of Judge Lynch,And From His Decision There is No Appeal—How Bob Sarver Paid the Penalty of His Crime.SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. BOWLING GREEN., March 7.—Your correspondent has just returned from the scene of the…

RAVISHER LYNCHED IN KENTUCKY. Nashville, March 7.—Bob Sarver, colored, was lynched at Franklin, Ky., to-night, for an attempt to rape a white girl 16 years old named Ruly.

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,…

Lynched By A Mob. LOUISVILLE, Dec. 24.--A Horse Cave special to the Courier-Journal says: “Yesterday morning about daylight Esquire John A. Gardner, who lives about one mile from Rawlett’s Station, In Hart County, was called to go to his barn by a…

Lynching in Tennessee. LOUISVILLE, December 25.--John A. Gardner was nearly killed in his barn at Rowlett’s station yesterday. A negro named John Campbell and his brother Sam, who staid in the barn with him, were arrested on suspicion, and money was…

Two Negroes Lyncned. [sic] LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 24.--A Horse Cave special to the Courier Journal says; Side by side they hang on the banks of Green river. Yesterday morning, about daylight, Esquire John A. Gardner, who lives about one mile from…

Two Negroes Lynched in Kentucky LOUISVILLE, December 24th.-- John A. Gardner was nearly killed in his barn at Rowlett’s Station yesterday. A negro named John Campbell and his brother Sam, who staid in the barn with him, were arrested on suspicion,…