Hanged Him To A Tree

Title: Hanged Him To A Tree
Source Type: Newspapers
Publisher: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Publication Place: St. Louis, MO
Publication Date: 07/19/1884
Transcript: HANGED HIM TO A TREE. An Alabama Negro Who Attempted to Out- rage a Little White Girl. CHICAGO, July 19.-A Daily News' Tuscaloosa, Ala., special says: "Henry Burke, colored, who at- tempted to outrage a little white giri, was eaptured last night in the garret of an oid 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.'
Sources for: Andy Burke