Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1898 — Lynched. [ARTICLE]

Lynched.

Russellville, Ky., June ,27. —George Scott, a negro, about 21 years old, who has been in jail here several weeks on a charge of attempting to outrage Mrs. William Scroggins, who lived near Adairville, was hung by a mob about one o’clock Sunday morning. The negro made no resistance whutever. The jailer was overpowered. .