Griffey, Richmond Planet, October 20, 1894

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 demanded of the jailer the keys. These he positively refused to give up. Pushing him aside they searched the house and found them. In the cell of Griffey a struggle ensued, but he was over come, taken out, and placed in a covered hack and then the procession started out the Cadiz road. The mob wore no masks, and were strangers to the jailer. The man was hanged to a beech tree three miles from here. The body was horribly and (illegible) mutilated and perforated with bullets. The mob was undoubtedly from Christian county. The leader was barely in his teens.