Brown, Los Angeles Times, February 7, 1902

TOM BROWN SWINGS.

Negro Allowed to Live Until Identified by Victim and Then Lynched in the Courthouse Yard.

BY THE NEW ASSOCIATED PRESS–P.M.

NICHOLLASVILLE (Ky.) Feb. 6. – Tom Brown, the negro who assaulted Miss Della Powell yesterday, was taken from the officers this afternoon and lynched. During the night the mob made repeated attempts to get the negro, but was baffled. This morning County Attorney Mitchell, Sheriff Christman and Deputy Scott removed the negro from jail to take him to Miss Powell’s home for identification. About one hundred men accompanied the officers and prisoner. Notable among them was William Powell, brother of the girl, armed with a double-barreled shotgun.

After the negro had been fully identified and the officers were taking him back to the jail, the mob seized and lynched him in the Courthouse yard before the officers could get into the jail.