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Livermore Citizens Arrested on Indictments Of Murder for Alleged Participation In Lynching Of A M’Lean [sic] County Negro LIVERMORE KY., May 13.--As a result of the most vigorous instructions ever given a grand jury in Western Kentucky by Circuit…

18 Indicted For Lynching (Associated Press Telegram) OWENSBORO, May 12.--Indictments were returned here today against 18 well-known citizens of McLane [sic] growing out of the lynching of the negro William Potter at the Opera-house at Livermore…

Realism With a Vengeance At Livermore, KY. Negro Hung in Opera House---Mob Fills Swaying Body With Shot at So Much, Per---Seats on Sale---Brought Good Prices. Special to THE FREEMAN Not many people have known of such a town as Livermore, Ky. And…

Audience Shoots a Negro Lynched in Opera House Kentucky Town is Scene of Most Melodramatic Act of Vengeance Ever Enacted----------------------PRICE PAID FOR SHOOTING NEGRO Calhoun, Ky., April 21.--With militia upon the scene to prevent a race…

Arm Was Broken Jim West Saved His Neck in Shelbyville Lynching, But Was Hurt in Fall Shelbyville, Ky., Feb. 1–Private detectives who have been at work in Shelbyville for weeks are said to have discovered a mass of evidence as to the operation of…

Body of One Mob Victim Missing in Shelbyville Jim West is Not Thought to Have Escaped– Best Citizens of the Town Insist That Courts Investigate the Lynching of Sunday in Which Three Met Death at Hands of Twenty Armed and Masked Men– All Were Negroes…