Clifford, Paducah Sun, August 17, 1907

 LYNCHING

TAKES PLACE AT MAPLE, KY., FOLLOWING ASSAULT.

Tennessee Posse Follows Assailant and Murderer Across the Border.

Cincinnati, Aug. 17.—A Memphis dispatch to the Times-Star says: “Will Clifford, a negro, was arrested at Tiptonville, Tenn., and confessed to assaulting Mrs. Mary Cowan (white), and throwing her body into the river; also that he killed another woman a year ago. Constable Burrus secreted Clifford in a barn to avoid a mob that threatened the jail. Burris finally started with Clifford for another place, and at Maple, Ky., a posse caught up with them. The Constable was overpowered and the negro strung up.”