Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1891 — Negro Murderer Lynched. [ARTICLE]

Negro Murderer Lynched.

Tom Hunter, a negro cmp'oyed by R. L. Burks in the telegraph office at Cumberland Gap, waylaid Burks and killed him. Hunter was captured at Middlesborough, Ky., and returned to Cumberland Gap, when a mob took him and hanged him to a tree and Urod 100 shots ! into his body.