Dooley, Paducah News Democrat, February 16, 1902

RACE CLASH MAY COME AT FULTON

The Lynching of Bill Dooley Excites the Negro Population

FEAR OF TROUBLE WITH THE BLACKS FELT LAST NIGHT.

WHITES READY FOR OUTBREAK

More Details of the Mobbing, But No Proof That the Victim Committed a Crime.

Fulton, Ky., Feb. 15. - There is great excitement here tonight and it is feared that a race war is imminent as a result of the lynching of Bill Dooley last night.

Later details of the killing of Dooley show that several men, instead of three, as at first reported, participated in the lynching.  The men went to the cabin where Dooley resided with his wife and children, dragged him from his bed, bound him to a tree and fired several bullets into his body.

It is not known why he was killed. Some days since, a negro named Johnson shot Night Watchman Grady, of the I. C., and badly wounded him, making his escape. It is believed the mob mistook Dooley for Johnson.

The negro population is up in arms over the lynching. Trouble began brewing today, and tonight the situation became serious.

There are several hundred negroes here, and trouble is feared.

Good citizens here condemn the lynching, but any outbreak by the negroes would be met by a solid front of the whites.