Brown, Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer, February 7, 1902

Lynched

Negro Who Ravished Miss Power in Jessamine County– Took Him from the Officers and Strung Him Up– The Girl Earnestly Begged That He Be Not Hanged Near Her Home

Fully Identified By His Victim


Nicholasville, Ky., Feb. 6– Tom Brown, the negro who ravished Miss Della Power, was lynched in the courthouse yard at 1 o’clock this afternoon.

Brown was arrested by the officers, and followed by a mob of 200 men, was taken to the residence of Miss Power. She positively identified him as her assailant, but begged the mob not to lynch him. The leaders replied that they would do so at all hazards, and she plead with them not to add to her anguish by hanging him near her house. The mob agreed to this and came back with the officers, their number increasing every minute.

When they reached here the mob, which had surrounded the officers, seized the negro and strung him up to a tree. There was no effort at concealment of their identity on the part of anybody connected with the mob. The lynching was very quietly done.