Bullitt County KyArchives News.....HANGED TO A TREE, A KENTUCKY MOB STRINGS UP A MAN WHO IS CHARGED WITH MURDER. July 4, 1889 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Phyllis Thompson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002524 August 24, 2005, 5:57 pm The Georgia Enterprise July 4, 1889 A mob went to the jail at Shepardsville, Ky., at 1 o’clock Wednesday morning and demanded of Jailer BOWMAN the surrender of THOMAS MITCHELL and CHARLES ARDELL, confined there charged with the murder of a peddler named JOSEPH LAVINE. BOWMAN refused to surrender the men and took his stand in front of the door with a shotgun, declaring he would kill the first man who tried to pass. Mrs. BOWMAN, hearing the threats and fearing her husband would be killed, ran forward and gave the mob the keys, begging BOWMAN not to provoke them. The leaders then unlocked the doors and went to the cell where the prisoners were confined. The jailer followed, begging them at least to spare MITCHELL, who he believed was innocent. They yielded to his entreaties, telling MITCHELL he might thank BOWMAN for his life, and binding ARDELL they took him to the woods, about a mile and a half from town, and hung him to a tree. Additional Comments: The Georgia Enterprise was published in Newton County Georgia up to 1905. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/bullitt/newspapers/hangedto386gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/