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Skaggs, Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, April 17, 1891
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Title: Lynched a Negro Murderer.
Louisville, Ky., April 16.—Near Bowling Green, seven masked men visited the Old Union neighborhood at an early hour this morning and shot to death Will Skaggs, a negro, 18 years of age, who on…
Skaggs, Anaconda Standard, April 17, 1891
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Title: Shot by Masked Men.
LOUISVILLE, KY. April 15.—Near Bowling Green seven masked men visited the old union this morning and shot to death Will Skaggs, a negro, who on Tuesday fatally cut a young white man named Kirby.
Skaggs, Nashville Tennessean, April 17, 1891
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Title: KENTUCKY. A Young Negro Boy Brutally Shot to Death by a Mob.
BOWLING GREEN, April 16.—[Special.] At an early hour this morning a mob, composed of seven masked men, visited the house of Boyd Johnson, a negro, in the old…
Skaggs, Osceola Record, April 23, 1891
NEWS NOTES.
An armed mob shot and killed in Warren county, Ky., Will Skaggs, colored, an escaped murderer.
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, 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, 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, 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…
Grainger, The Owensboro Messenger, July 26, 1891.
Hanged To A Tree.A Negro Who Ran a White Man With a Knife Quietly Lynched in the Night.
Pulliam, Lexington Herald-Leader, July 21, 1891
Took A Brute’s Life
An Enraged Mob Hangs A Shelbyville Rapist— His Foul Crime Sets a Whole Community On Fire, and Hundreds of Men Surround the Field Where it Was Committed, But Only Catch Him Later
Shelbyville, Ky., July 20– Sam Pulliam, a…