Traughber, Nashville Tennessean, August 15, 1894

BAIL REFUSED. 

Five Prominent Citizens of Logan County Held for Murder for Participating in a Lynching. 

RUSSELLVILLE, Ky., Aug. 14.--[Special.]--At the examining trial held here to-day bail was refused Frederick P. Apgar, Wm. B. Proctor, Moses Cook, Robert Henderson and Thos. Mackey, who are charged with the murder of Edwin Traughber, who was taken from his home near Adairville, Sunday night, July 15, and lynched. 

The negro, Prince McGuire, who has turned State’s evidence, will be taken to Bowling Green to-night for fear of a mob. The arrest of these prominent men, charged with such a crime, has created a sensation all over the county. Eminent counsel has been retained by both sides.