Scott, Hopkinsville Daily Kentuckian, June 4, 1898

Lynching Probable.

Nashville, Tenn., June 3.—George Scott, a young colored man, is in jail at Springfield, Tenn., charged with attempting criminal assault on Mrs. William Scoggins, wife of a well-to-do farmer living just across the line, in Logan county, Kentucky. Mrs. Scoggins successfully resisted the negro’s assault, and her husband chased him some distance, getting close enough to pepper him with a bird shot from head to feet. He will be lynched, it is thought, when taken back to Adairville.