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TWO COLORED BOYS LYNCHED IN KENTUCKY.WERE GUILTY OF MURDERSTONED A PRINTER TO DEATH AT SHELBYVILLE.MOB BATTERED JAIL DOORSHELENA (MONT.) MOB HANGS ARAPIST.Shelbyville, Ky., Oct. 2.-111111)0 Pields, aged 1G, and Clarance Garnett, aged 18. both colored, were lynched here early this morning for the alleged murder of Will C. Hart, a printer, who was stoned to death on Saturday night, Sept. 21. ^ The hoys were taken from the jail and swung from the Chesapeake and Ohio trestle, within 500 yards of the jail.The mob went to the jail and demanded the keys from tk© jailor, but lie refused to surrender them. The doors of the jail were then battered down. The prisoners were removed almost before they had time to realize what was happening. The work was done quietly and the mob dispersed without its members’ identitybecoming known.Hart came to Shelbyville from Lebanon, Ohio, and at the time of his death was employed as a printer onthe Shelby Sentinel.The details of lus death are not accurately known, but the evidence was conclusive that Pields and Gar-very 92banksMi!Tuesi olic chi weddin Charles marria: bride i and Mi and Fi groom, attired trimme ribbon, aigrett white ] guests Kiefel, Kluebe Draths Miss PA LAIHOMEManyMinSHop:OUS elfb etwee posed :emploj North, about be Uni Over
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Fort Wayne Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, Oct 09, 1901
Page 6
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