People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — LYNCHED FOR KILLING A BOY. [ARTICLE]

LYNCHED FOR KILLING A BOY.

Summary Punishment of a Negro at Newcastle, Ky., by a Masked Mob. Louisville, Ely., Aug. 29.—Between 1 and 2 o’clock Monday morning thirty horsemen rode into Newcastle, Ky., and waking up Jailer Haad told him they had a prisoner. When Head appeared with the keys the-visitors, most of whom were masked, overpowered him and let themselves into the jail. They were after a negro named Leonard Taylor. Securing their man they took him about a quarter of a mile out on the road to; Franklin tan and hanged him to a tree. Taylor’s- crime was an unprovoked; assault upon an Italian boy peddler a week ago. The negro> struck the boy over the head, fracturing his sknll and causing his death.