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Another Lynching In Union.The SturgiH Ledger gives this account of an affair near Casey ville that let] to a lynching:“About two miles frum Caseyville Thursday morning,Claude Tompkins alias Kennedv, a negro boy from 15 to 18 years old attempted to rape Mildred Gray, a little white girl about 11 years old.Mildred Gray, in company with Marcella Okelay. a friend about her own age, left home for Mr. John Whiteheads, at Dekoven, a half mile away. They had not proceeded far when they met the negro Tompkins. They became frightened and started to turn back, but the negro told them to go on as he would not bother them. They then passed him and had only taken but a few steps when the negro ran up behind them and caught the liltld Gray girl by the shoulders and drew her to one side of the road. Throwing her down on the ground he tried to accomplish his diabo'ical purpose, and would hare succeeded had not assistance come in the person of Mr. Sam Blanchard, who was attracted by the screams of both girls, having met Miss Okelay a short din tance from the scene of the crime. When he was nearly to them he halloed and the negro got up and ran, Mr. Blanchard started after him, but the n**gro escaped. A posse pursued him and a few hours later he was captured and put in the calaboose at Caseyville. Aoout 10:30 o'clock that night ho was taken out by a mob of 50 or 60 men and taken to the scene of his crime and hanged to u tree. The body was cut down the next day. TompVius begged piteously for his life while the mob was taking him away.
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian
Hopkinsville, Kentucky, US
Tue, May 28, 1895
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