Brown, Lancaster Central Record, February 13, 1902

Prompt and Just Punishment.

Last week, a negro assaulted Miss Della Powell, a prominent young lady, near her home in Jessamine county, dragging her from a buggy on the public highway, just before dark. The negro was taken to jail, and next morning the young lady fully identified him. A crowd (not a “mob,” as some papers reported) took him from the officers and hanged him in the court house yard at Nicholasville. While we are opposed to mob law, yet this punishment is what the brute should have received, and the citizens are to be congratulated on the job. Such fiendish assaults will never be stopped until the perpetrators are promptly executed, and the quicker the better.