Lynched For Attempted Rape
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Title
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Lynched For Attempted Rape
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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The Leavenworth Standard
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Publication Place
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Leavenworth, Kansas
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Publication Date
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07/19/1884
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Transcript
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Lynched For Attempted Rape. Chicago, July 19.-The Daily News' Tuscaloosa, Alabama, special says that Henry Burke, colored, who attempted to outrage a little white girl, was cap- tured last night in the garret of an old house. A mob at midnight took him from jail and banged him to a tree in the street, They first put five bullets in his body.
