Ray County, Missouri Richmond Conservator transcription; November 26, 1896 (page 1) This is a transcription of the newspaper articles relating to the triple murders of Mrs. Jesse Winner and her two young children Richmond Conservator, Thursday, November 26, 1896 (page 1) Winner and Lackey Taken to Lexington Owing to numerous threats having been made, and the almost continuous appearance of squads of men in town almost every night, who were seemingly bent upon lynching Jesse Winner and Lon Lackey, incarcerated in the jail at this place, charged with the murder of Mrs. Winner and her two children, Winner and Lackey were quietly slipped out of jail by Sheriff elect Richard K. Green, at an early hour Wednesday morning and taken across the river to Lexington, where they were locked up in the Lafayette county jail for safe keeping. All Tuesday night squads of men were on the streets and in the neighborhood of the jail, but the officers were on the alert, staying up all night to prevent surprises, and this morning it was deemed prudent to remove the prisoners. The action of the officials is to be commended, as Ray county could not afford to have the stigma of a lynching upon her fair name. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by County Coordinator USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or their legal representative, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------