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Negro is Run Out. Trenton, Ky. - There is no truth in the report sent out that George Tutt, colored, was taken from jail here by a mob of masked men. Tutt was sent to jail for carrying concealed weapons and when his sentence expired he was ordered…

TO ANSWER CHARGE OF FALSE SWEARING George Tutt, Colored, Arrested in Louisville and Brought Here… Thursday Afternoon (From Friday’s Daily.) George Tutt, colored, indicated at the last term of court for false swearing was arrested in Louisville…

Lynching Reported in Todd County Man Arrested for Carrying a Concealed Weapon Taken From Jail by Masked Gang. (Special to The Leader.) LOUISVILLE, KY., April 3. - George Tutt, colored, is said to have been taken from jail at Trenton, Todd county,…

Negro is Gone - Where? Nashville, Tenn., April 3. - A Hopkinsville, Ky., dispatch to the Banner says that George Tutt, colored, has mysteriously disappeared from Trenton, Ky., where he was in jail on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. He is…

Prisoner Whipped; Freed. Mob Takes Man From Jail and Drives Him From Country. Hopkinsville, Ky., April 3. - George Tutt, colored, who was in jail at Trenton, Ky., on a charge of carrying concealed weapons, was taken from the prison by thirty or…

THE NECKTIE ROUTE. A Rope Placed Around Elmer Hill’s Neck and He is Jerked into Eternity. ABOUT THIRTY MEN DID THE WORK. The expected happened last Wednesday night when a mob of about thirty or forty citizens of Russell county visited the…

ELMER HILL IS HUNG BY MOB Was Taken Out Last Night at Monticello and Lynched. A mob at Monticello, Ky., last night found and took out of jail and hanged Elmer Hill, the white man charged with assault upon and the murder of his thirteen-year-old…

FULL STORY OF HILL LYNCHING Confesses Crime and Mob Sings Hymn Before Hanging Murderer. DANVILLE, Ky., Dec. 18. – Elmer Hill, confessed child-murdered, paid the death penalty for his crimes Wednesday night. As the hangmen were looping the rope…

RAIDERS REVENGE DIXON RACE RIOT The Negro Who Killed Berry is Summarily Executed Take Him Out of Town And Shoot Him by the Roadside. Dixon, Ky., May 31. – Final revenge for the Providence race riot of March 14, in which two white traveling men…

THREE WHITE MEN KILLED BY NEGROES Webster County On Verge of Race War Over Shooting of Town Marshal of Providence. Dixon, Ky., March 15, – After Jake McDowell, a negro, who shot and it is thought fatally wounded Smith Childers, deputy city Marshal…