Griffey, The Buffalo Enquirer, October 22, 1894

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 cause is the hanging of Willis Griffey, the rapist of Christian County, whose victim, Lena Berry, lived in Lafayette. 

Griffey was brought here for safe keeping, but a mob formed in the section where the crime was committed, cme here, took the negro from jail and lynched him.

It is said that secret meetings have been held since among the negroes and they have become bold in their utterances and threats. The white citizens are alarmed and are sleeping on their arms.