Negro Outrager Hanged
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Title
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Negro Outrager Hanged
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Arkansas Democrat
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Publication Place
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Little Rock, AR
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Publication Date
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07/19/1884
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Transcript
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Negro Outrager Hanged. CHICAGO, ILLS., July 19.-The - Daily News' Tuscaloosa, Ala., special says Henry Burke, colored, who attempted to outrage a little white girl, was captured last night in the garret of an old house. A mob at midnight took him from the jail and hanged him to a tree in the street and put five bullets in his body.