Willson also urged law-abiding citizens to defend themselves, promising a Governor’s pardon to anyone who shot and killed a Night Rider.” No one was ever prosecuted for the murders. SOURCE: Build Nation for Wordpress.com
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Kentucky Gov, Augustus E. Willson “offered a five-hundred-dollar reward for the arrest and conviction of any Night Rider who participated in the Walker family lynching.
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As David Walker, his wife (with their infant son) and his three youngest kids exited the cabin to escape the fire, they were gunned down. His oldest son died in the fire.
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Facts: No one knows the story of the dispute between David Walker and the white woman, but she became upset when he swore at her.
The Night Riders went to the Walker farm, soaked it in coal oil and set it on fire.
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#OTD in #History 1908

October 3: #WalkerFamilyLynching
Context: David Walker, his wife, and their five children were murdered by fifty Night Rider’s in Hickman, Fulton County, Kentucky after David Walker upset a white woman.
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