McDowell, Mount Vernon (KY) Signal, June 5, 1908

LIVINGSTON,

MONDAY, JUNE 15

Jake McDowell, the negro who shot and seriously wounded Smith Childress, Deputy Marshal of Dixon, was taken from the jail at Dixon by a mob and later his body was found in the road. McDowell had been in jail at Henderson but was recently removed to Dixon, where his trial was to have been called soon.