The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1894-08-24
a LYNCHING.
Farmers Wife Assaulted Near
Frankfort, KY.
Dragged Into a Culyert, Outraged and
Left With Threats Of Death.
Alarm Given. Posses quickly Formed and
the Negro Caught and Imprisoned
Later Taken Prom the JaIIer and
Hanged From Bridge.

FRANKFoRT, Ky. Aug. Tuesday
morning Mrs. Martin Nolan, wife of a
well 70 do farmer and mother Of four
children, who resides about one mile
from this city. was returning home on
foot with basket OF groceries she had
purchased.
When near a culvert Negro APP
preached her and asked for money.
and upon being refused the brute beat
her numerically and dragged her into
the cnlyert After a contest in which
Mrs. Nolan bravely attempted 70 save
her honor. and in which the fend
cholSed her into insensibility. he ac-
complished his purpose and 1ed, leay-.
ing the woman. Before leaving her he
told her that IL she screamed he would
return and murder her.
After recovering sufficient strength,
Mrs. Nolan again went TO the road,
where she was met by some people, to
whom she reported the affair. They
hurried to this city and reported the
affair 10 the officials Several posses
were Immediately organized and sent
in every direction for the fend.
There was no success in finding him,
but County Judge hen Williams, who
had been furnished description of
him, had arrested Negro tallying
exactly with the description.
The Negro gave his name as Marshall
Boston, and an investigation showed
that he was an eS-convict, who was
sent from AIaysville for outrage, and
had done ten years for that crime. He
was at work in this city but had not
shown up Tuesday morning.
He stoutly maintained his ignorance
of anything connected with the crime
Tuesday morning, but, being taken be-
fore Mrs. Nolan, she positively identi-
fed him. He was hurriedly brought
back TO this city under heavy guard
and placed in jail,
The crowd which had congregated at
the scene of the crime was aroused,
and only needed leader to send the
Negro into eternity, bnt he was per-
mitted to go to his cell in safety.
The state house yard was filed with
mobbers at 10 o'clock, and in an alley
in the back of the state house the main
detachment of the mob was formed.
At II o'clock the most unearthly yells
were heard. and mob of two hundred
and fifty men came from an alley back
of st. Clair street, which runs back of
the jail.
The mob proceeded to the jail, firing
pistols in the air and making the most
unearthly noise, and demanded the
keys. Jailer Williams refused to give
up the keys, and the mob began to
batter the door with sledge hammers.
The bowling mob surged around the
jailyard with their cries for the blood
of the prisoner, while the continued
strokes of the hammer beat for an hour
against the strong doors.
The big hinges gave away Just as the
clock struck twelve, and the mob gave
one long yell, which did not cease un-
til the body of their victim swung
from the bridge which crosses the Ken
lucky river about square above the
iailyard. Boston confessed his crime.
and said he hoped to meet his wife and
children in Heaven. The body swung
clear under the bridge and not strug-
gle was perceptible.
The body was then hoisted by a rope
TO the high beams on the top of the
iron bridge, and after filing It with a
hundred bullets the crowd dispersed.
They left the body swinging naked in
the light of the moon.