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September 25, 1889
During a row among negro miners at Bramwell, W. Va., Dan Lambert and Tom Kedle were literally cut to pieces. Three others also were seriously injured. [Indiana Progress, Indiana Pennsylvania - submitted by Shauna Williams]
Another Club MeetingThe old original colored republican club met Tuesday night at the Court House. There were 37 present and 43 new names sent for membership. An election of officers and delegates to the Princeton convention was held. Adjourned to meet next Friday night. [Bluefield, WV Newspaper, March 12, 1896 - submitted by Frances Cooley]
February 1, 1898
LYNCHED A NEGRO
Bramwell, W. Va., Feb. 2-An unknown negro who was refused the privilege of walking through a tunnel of the Norfolk and Western railroad near here, shot Harry Draper, the watchman, killing him instantly. A posse soon formed and captured the negro. At midnight 50 men took the prisoner from the jail and lynched him, after which his body was riddled with buckshot. [North Adams Transcript, North Adams Massachusetts - submitted by Shauna Williams]February 2, 1898
An unknown negro was lynched at Bramwell, W. Va., for the murder of a railroad man. [The Marion Daily Star, Marion Ohio - submitted by Shauna Williams]February 2, 1898
BAD NEGRO LYNCHED
West Virginia Mob Meted Out Quick Punishment For a Foul Murder.
Bramwell, W. Va., Feb. 2- William Bailey, a desperate negro, who, less than a month ago, was released from the state penitentiary after serving three years for involuntary manslaughter, has been lynched here and his body riddled with bullets.
Bailey shot and instantly killed Harry Draper, a well known citizen, who watching at the Norfolk and Western tunnel and depot, his only excuse for the crime being that Draper had refused to let him walk through the tunnel.
Little resistance was made at the jail. It is alleged that the county officials knew that a lynching was being formed, and that they left town to spend the night.
It is reported that although the lynching occurred in a blinding snow half the crowd that witnessed it was composed of women.
Bailey, it is said, had killed three men during his life. [The Evening Democrat, Warren Pennsylvania - submitted by Shauna Williams]
