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Pile, The Courier-Journal, May 20, 1877
Negro Taken from Blandville Jail by disguised men, Dragged to the Woods, Hanged, Shot, and His Clothing Burned off.
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Casey, The Ohio County News, October 17, 1877
Dicky Casey
Mayo, St. Louis Globe, April 02, 1877
Lynch Law in Kentucky. Full Particulars of the Lynching of Parker Mayo. Terrible Punishment for a Terrible Crime
Scott, Nashville Tennessean (Nashville American), June 3, 1898
SPIRITED HIM AWAY.
Charged With Attempted Assault, a Negro is Hidden by Officers.
SPRINGFIELD, June 2.—(Special.)—The community around Adairville, in Logan County, Ky., is greatly wrought up over an attempted assault upon Mrs. William Scoggins, by…
Scott, Nashville Tennessean (Nashville American), June 5, 1898
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Title: Safe in Kentucky
SPRINGFIELD. June 3.—(Special.)—George Scott, the would-be negro rapist, has been turned over to the Sheriff of Logan County, Kentucky. The negro was induced to return to Kentucky without requisition…
Scott, Cincinnati Enquirer, July 27, 1898
LYNCHED
By a Determined Mob Was George Scott, the Colored Assailant of a White Woman
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER
RUSSELLSVILLE, KY., June 26.—George Scott, a negro, was hanged by a mob here this morning at 1 o’clock. The mob overpowered…
Scott, Louisville Courier-Journal, June 27, 1898
TO A TREE
George Scott, Colored, Was Hanged By a Mob
IN RUSSELLVILLE SUBURBS
WAS IN AIL FOR AN ATTEMPT TO ASSAULT CRIMINALLY
LYNCHING A QUIET AFFAIR
Russellville, Ky., June 26.—[Special.]—Last midnight a mob took George Scott, colored, from the…
Scott, Hartford Ohio County News (Hartfold Herald), June 29, 1898
Lynched at Russellville.
RUSSELLVILLE, KY., June 26.—Last night a mob took George Scott, colored, from the county jail and hanged him to a tree in the southern suburbs of town. The gallows-tree was the same from which Dink and Arch Proctor were…
Scott, Hopkinsville Daily Kentuckian, June 4, 1898
Lynching Probable.
Nashville, Tenn., June 3.—George Scott, a young colored man, is in jail at Springfield, Tenn., charged with attempting criminal assault on Mrs. William Scoggins, wife of a well-to-do farmer living just across the line, in Logan…
Scott, Earlington Bee, June 30, 1898
Saturday night a mob took George Scott, colored, from the jail in Russellville and hung him to a tree in the suburbs. The mob was composed of about forty persons most of whom were boys, and but few were disguised. The jailor did not recognize any…