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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…

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…

Two Negro Boys Were Lynched at Shelbyville Found Hanging to Bridge at Daylight; Had Murdered Printer Shelbyville, Ky., Oct. 2– “We, the jury, find that Jimbo Fields and Clarence Garnett came to their death upon the C & O railroad trestle by…