A Kentucky Lynching
Item
- Title
- A Kentucky Lynching
- Source
- Savannah Morning News (GA)
- Date
- 1882-07-13
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82015137/1882-07-13/ed-1/.
- Crime
- Rape
- Subject
- Rape; 12 year old girl;mob lynching
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Race of alleged victim
- Mixed alleged victim
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- Mob
- Stage of the Legal System
- Extralegal
- Location
- Out of State, Louisville KY
- Length of story
- 58
- Description
-
Louisville, July 12.— William Ritter, a
negro in jail at Henderson, Ky., on the
charge of the rape and murder of Helen
Brewster, a mulatto girl twelve years old,
was taken from the jail at that place last
night by a mob and hanged to a tree. It is
supposed that the executioners are com
posed of blacks.