The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-03-11
Bituninous Workers Win Another Eleven-Point Gain
NEGR0SLAYER OF FIVE AND MAN
RESPONSIBLE FOR RIOT IN WHICH
SIX DIED PAYSPENALTY TODAY

SOlsleSSeu MuFQerer OF fOur
Other Women, Electrocuted at
EddyviIle This Morning
Brothers of Last Victim Wit
ness Execution
Eddyville, KY, March 1l.-Petrie
kimbrough, alias Will Lockett, con-
Victed slayer Of Genevieve Hardman.
and confessed slayer of four other
women, died in the electric chair here
at 4:32 o'clock this morning.
kimbrough displayed slight signs
of emotion as he was placed in the
electric chair and the black cap low
cred over his head. The electric cur
rent was quickly applied and the neg
no was dead within fifteen seconds.
Two brothers of the Hardman girl
and seventeen Lexington citizens, to-
gether with eight soldiers and twelve
prison guards, witnessed the execu-
ton. ..
The negro refused to make a state
ment when he was taken from his cell.
tie declared yesterday that he was
ready to die and that he prayed for
the little ten-year old Hardman girl
whom he had killed and the entire
Hardman family. E0- ~.
~ STORY OF CRIME
Will Lockett, negro, whose trial at
Lexington, KY, caused the death of
six white men in a riot, paid the
penalty for murder of a 1O-year old
white girl. He was electrocuted.
Lockett was 80 years old, a native of
Henderson. Ky, and soldier at Camp
Zachary Taylor during the world war.
Ihe victim was Geneva Hardman Of
South Elkhorn. She was killed on
the morning of Feb. 4, 1920.
The murder of the little girl near
the village OF South Elkhorn aroused
the people there Her non-appearance
at school resulted in finding her NUT
Hated body In a corn field beside the
country road. Posses late in the aft
ernoon found Lockett. apparently Il
wandering negro, at DixontOwn, six
miles from the place of her death. He
was taxen to Lexington whence the
authorities spirited him to the state
refOrmatOry at Frankfort The same
night a long line of automobiles lead
ed with armed men. made demand
upon the prison authorities for the
possession of the negro Governor
Edwin p. Morrow warned the crowd
that the negro would be protected at
any cost and it dispersed.
On February 8, guarded by nearly
100 members Of the state militia,
LOckett was taken to Lexington, a
special grand jury was impaneled, an
indictment was returned and within
40 minutes after he was placed on
trial Lockett was convicted and SEN
fenced to be electrocuted here March
II.
BEGINNING OF RIOT ,.7 7
Announcement Of the verdict SEEM
ed to anger the crowd outside which
had grown large. A man with a rope
yelled, Let's get him" and led the
mob up the court house steps Adult
ant General Devices, in command of
the militia, attempted to halt the
crowd but it pressed on and the
guardsmen opened fire. Five persons
were killed and twenty were wound
ed one of the wounded dying few
hours later. i@.D.-.,.. .g-
Governor Morrow was advised and
called upon the federal authorities for
troops. Within few hours, two riot
battalions of regulars were formed
at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville,
and under the commander of Briga-
dier General r. G. Marshall, were on
the way to Lexington in special
trains. Arriving there in the middle
of the afternoon, General Marshall
detrained his men in riot formation,
with fixed bayonets They marched
up the street to the court house. With
in 40 minutes army authorities say,
crowds were cleared from the streets,
pickets were posted, patrols were es-
tablished and Lexington and Fayette
county declared under martial law.
Lockett meanwhile was confined in
cage within the court house. where
he remained until the night of Feb.
10, when he was taken from the court
house. marched down the street in
the center of a squad of soldiers and
placed on board special train bound
for the state prison. Early the next
day, with squads of men deplOyed at
intervals between the railroad station
and the prison, LOckett was taken
from the train and within few min
utes was in a death cell.
A grand jury which investigated the
riots announced that although testi-
nony has been submitted warranting
indictments none was returned be-
cause they would "only aggravate an
already tense situation