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MOB BATTERED JAIL DOORSHELENA (MOHT.) HOB HANGS ABAPXST.Shelbyville, Ky., Oct. 2.-~Jimbo Fields, aged 1C, and Clarance Garnett, aged IS, 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 the jailor, but he 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 his death are not accurately known, but the evidence •was conclusive that Fields and Garnett were his murderers. Hart’s body was found in a path leading from the house of the mother of Jimho Fields.
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Fort Wayne Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, Oct 09, 1901
Page 6
Full Page
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