Bumpus (Bumpass), New York Times, August 31, 1904

Kentucky Mob Drowns Negro

Takes Him from Jail and Throws Him Into the Mississippi. 

Special to The New York Times

HICKMAN, Ky., Aug. 30.--Joe Bumpass,  a negro, was taken from the county jail at 1 o’clock this morning by a mob and drowned in the middle of the Mississippi River. 

The mob, after taking the keys from the jailer, wanted to shoot the prisoner in his cell, but the officer begged them not to, so, placing a rope about the negro’s neck, his captors led him to the river. He was placed in a skiff, rowed to the middle of the stream, where his hands and feet were tied, and he was thrown overboard. 

The negro was charged with attacking the thirteen-year old daughter of Tuck Clay, a farmer.