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Six men took Wick Willis from the jail at Lebanon and hung him. He was accused of attempting to rape Miss Dice in Adair county and was in the Lebanon jail to keep a mob from getting him.

Wick Willis, col., was lynched by a mob at Campbellsville, Kentucky., in Adair county, Monday night for an attempted outrage upon Miss Dice, a young white woman. The mob consisted of only six men and the jailer gave up the prisioner [sic] without…

His Neck Cracked A Negro Ravisher Hanged to a Tree Near Champbellsville.------------------------ The Marion County Jailer Overpower And The Brute Quietly Taken Out.---------------------- He Was Started Back To The Scene of the Crime, but…

Bob Harper Dies At the Hands of a Mob at Bowling Green— Sudden Ending to the Inquiry in Progress— The Prisoner Captured in the Court House— And Hung From a Beech street in the Fair Grounds Bowling Green, Ky., Dec. 28– Bob Harper has paid the…