Show HANGING I m EN RECORD TIME Negro Tried Sentenced Sentence and Executed at Mayfield Ky Kyin Kyin Kyin in Less Than an Hour Mayfield Ky Kr July 31 The hanging of Allen Matthis M lI this the negro who criminally assaulted Miss Ethel McClain McCiain last Wednesday night flight took place at 8 S tonight in a legal manner in the yard ard of the county jail Fully people were on the scene but only a few hundred could see the execution lon although almost the entire fence surrounding the scaffold had been torn down by b the enraged citi citizens citizens zens while the trial was going on n It was was only fifty minutes after the time the Jury was sworn In until the negro was pro pronounced pronounced dead Lynching Prevented Matthis arrived here at tonight from Louisville In charge of a deputy deput shen f fand and a company of militia from Hopkins Hopkinsville yule ville The local military met the train and the negro was marched marched to the court courthouse courthouse house Several attempts were made to get gt the negro and twice he was wa in the possession of the mob but the soldiers finally succeeded in forcing their way with their prisoner to the courthouse where Matthis trial was at once begun There were rumors tonight that another negro in jail from Hickman county count charged with a similar offense was to be lynched but it is understood that the tha theman th thaman man was spirited away S S I |