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LYNCHED, IF CAUGHT. Brutal Assault on a Kentucky Lady by a Negro Fiend. Clarksville, Tenn., Sept. 29. – News has reached here of one of the foulest attempts at rape ever committed in Southern Kentucky. An adopted daughter of Mr. Davis, at…

HENDERSON, KY., Oct. 15. –[Special.]– Willis Griffey, the negro fiend, who committed rape upon the person of Miss Lena Berry, in Christian County, about one month ago, and was soon afterwards arrested and quietly conveyed to the jail at Princeton…

Hopkinsville, Ky., Oct. 15. –[Special.]– There was a ripple of excitement here to-day when it became known that a mob of men had taken Griffey from the Princeton jail and hanged him. The Christian county grand jury, which is still in session,…

RACE TROUBLES IN KENTUCKY. Colored People Threaten to Avenge the Lynching of Griffey. PRINCETON, Ky., Oct. 23. – There is considerable excitement in South Christian, in the neighborhood of Lafayette and Pee Dee, over the efforts of certain negro…

CAUGHT THE BRUTE. Willis Griffey Captured by Officers Near Madisonville. Taken to Princeton, Ky., and Lodged in Jail There to Prevent Lynching. The LEAF-CHRONICLE contained an article Saturday about the search in this vicinity for Willis Griffey,…

ANOTHER ACCOUNT. HOPKINSVILLE, KY. Oct. 15. –[Special.]– Information has been received here to-day from Princeton to the effect that Willis Griffey, the colored brute who outraged the person of Miss Lena Berry, in the southern portion of this…

Another Colored Man Lynched – His Body Horribly Mutilated PRINCETON, KY, Oct. 15 – Willis Griffey, the colored man confined to jail here, was lynched here last night at 11:30 o’clock by a mob of one hundred or more men. They went to the jail and…

A KENTUCKY LYNCHING. A Mob Endeavored to Make the Punishment Fit the Crime. PRINCETON, Ky., Oct. 15. – Willis Giffey, the fiend confined in jail here, has paid the penalty of his crime. Sunday night at 11:30 o’clock a mob of 100 or more men entered…

A RACE RIOT. NEGROES ENDEAVORING TO WORK UP A RACE RIOT. Princeton, Ky., Oct. 22. – Considerable excitement is reported in South christian in the neighborhood of Lafayette and Peedee over the efforts of negro leaders to work up a race riot. The…

FOUND THE KEYS And Entering the Cell Dragged the Negro Out, Took Him Three Miles Down the Road And After Riddling Him With Bullets And Mutilating Him in a Horrible Manner Left His Dead Body Swinging From a Tree. Princeton, Ky., Oct. 15.…