SEMI-WEEKLY INTERIOR JOURNAL, STANFORD, KENTUCKY
Tuesday, January 30, 1883
Page 3
Killed By Ku-Klux. - On Thursday last the people of this part of Lincoln were startled with the information that the second wife of Mr. Jas. Acton, who lives just over the line in Pulaski, had been taken out of her own house and beaten to death by a Ku-Klux gang. As far as can be ascertained, the gang was composed of old Jas. Acton's two sons, two brothers-in-law of the two younger Acton's, the younger Acton's cousins and another brother who lives in this county, with other lawless ruffians. This woman was old Jas. Acton's second wife who had to leave him on account of ill treatment. She claimed a third of her husband's property, and the Acton's determined to have the old woman out of the way so she could not get it, and called upon the Ku-Klux gang, which I am reliably informed has existed in the neighborhood ever since the war.
(Kentuckiana Digital Library)
Tuesday, January 30, 1883
Page 3
Killed By Ku-Klux. - On Thursday last the people of this part of Lincoln were startled with the information that the second wife of Mr. Jas. Acton, who lives just over the line in Pulaski, had been taken out of her own house and beaten to death by a Ku-Klux gang. As far as can be ascertained, the gang was composed of old Jas. Acton's two sons, two brothers-in-law of the two younger Acton's, the younger Acton's cousins and another brother who lives in this county, with other lawless ruffians. This woman was old Jas. Acton's second wife who had to leave him on account of ill treatment. She claimed a third of her husband's property, and the Acton's determined to have the old woman out of the way so she could not get it, and called upon the Ku-Klux gang, which I am reliably informed has existed in the neighborhood ever since the war.
(Kentuckiana Digital Library)
SEMI-WEEKLY INTERIOR JOURNAL, STANFORD, KENTUCKY
Tuesday, January 30, 1883
Page 3
Killed By Ku-Klux. - On Thursday last the people of this part of Lincoln were startled with the information that the second wife of Mr. Jas. Acton, who lives just over the line in Pulaski, had been taken out of her own house and beaten to death by a Ku-Klux gang. As far as can be ascertained, the gang was composed of old Jas. Acton's two sons, two brothers-in-law of the two younger Acton's, the younger Acton's cousins and another brother who lives in this county, with other lawless ruffians. This woman was old Jas. Acton's second wife who had to leave him on account of ill treatment. She claimed a third of her husband's property, and the Acton's determined to have the old woman out of the way so she could not get it, and called upon the Ku-Klux gang, which I am reliably informed has existed in the neighborhood ever since the war.
(Kentuckiana Digital Library)
Tuesday, January 30, 1883
Page 3
Killed By Ku-Klux. - On Thursday last the people of this part of Lincoln were startled with the information that the second wife of Mr. Jas. Acton, who lives just over the line in Pulaski, had been taken out of her own house and beaten to death by a Ku-Klux gang. As far as can be ascertained, the gang was composed of old Jas. Acton's two sons, two brothers-in-law of the two younger Acton's, the younger Acton's cousins and another brother who lives in this county, with other lawless ruffians. This woman was old Jas. Acton's second wife who had to leave him on account of ill treatment. She claimed a third of her husband's property, and the Acton's determined to have the old woman out of the way so she could not get it, and called upon the Ku-Klux gang, which I am reliably informed has existed in the neighborhood ever since the war.
(Kentuckiana Digital Library)
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