Breckinridge County KY Death Notices and Obituaries

Emma Gray
Attempts to Lynch a Murderer
Louisville, Ky., June 11- Joe Gray, a negro, who killed Miss Emma Gray, with a rock by horribly beating her on the head at Hardinsburg, Ky., Sunday last, was brought there for safe keeping this morning. Breckinridge county is much excited over the brutal murder. Two unsuccessful attempts were made to lynch. Gray, who was hidden, was hurried away by the officers.
[June 12, 1885, The Daily Gazette, Fort Wayne Indiana]


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