Lynched for a Nameless Outrage
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Title
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Lynched for a Nameless Outrage
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Natchez Democrat
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Publication Place
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Natches, MS
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Publication Date
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07/20/1884
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Transcript
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Lynched for a Nameless Outrage. CHICAGO, July 19-The Daily News' Tuscaloosa. Ala., special says: Henry Burke, colored. who attempted to out- rage a little white girl, was captured last night in the garret of an old house. The mob at midnight took him and hanged him to a tree in the street. and put five bullets in his body.
