Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1920 — NEGRO MURDERER EXECUTED [ARTICLE]

NEGRO MURDERER EXECUTED

Black, Who Caused Lexington Riot, Goes to Chair —Brothers of Victim See Execution. Eddyville, Kj., March 12—Petrie Kimbrough, alias Will Lockett, convicted stayed of Geneva Hardman, and confessed slayer of four other women, was executed In the electric chair at Eddyville prison at 4:32 a. m. The trial of Kimbrough at Lexington was the cause of a riot in which six white men were killed by soldiers. Two brothers of the Hardman girl and 17 Lexington citizens, together with eight soldiers and 12 prison guards, witnessed the execution, which apparently was carried out without a hitch in prearranged plans.