Double Lynching In Kentucky
Wickliffe, Ky., June 9. - Monday morning at 1 o'clock a mob lynched Evans Shelby in the jaü at this place. Evans murdered Mrs. Sallie Moore, near Woodville, in October, 1888, for money. Shelby made a desperate resistance, fighting as long as life lasted. Som e of the lynchers were badly hurt. The mob reported that they had previously hung Mart Shelby, under indictment as accessory to the crime. Evans had been tried and given a life sentence, but the court of appeals gave him a new trial last week.
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Lynching
Murder Trial
Old News
Ann Arbor Argus
Evans Shelby
Sallie Moore
Kentucky