Weaver, The Bourbon News, March 27, 1908

A band of twenty-five night riders, masked and armed, rode Tuesday night into Golden Pond, a village in Trigg county, and after firing off guns went to the hotel and from the servants’ quarters forced Tom Weaver, aged forty, a negro tobacco packer, to accompany them. The band took Weaver a little distance from the village, with drew a short distance from him and told him to run.

The negro failed to obey promptly, and the night riders began shooting at him. One bullet entered his shoulder and another his hip. He fell in the road, where neighbors found him the next morning in a dying condition. No cause for the outrage is known. Weaver worked for an association prizing house.