HANGED FOR HOUSE BURNING ~ Typical Southern Justice Meted Out to Incendiaries. Negroes, of Course.
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Title
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HANGED FOR HOUSE BURNING ~ Typical Southern Justice Meted Out to Incendiaries. Negroes, of Course.
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Duncannon Record
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Publication Place
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Duncannon, Pennsylvania
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Publication Date
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02/19/1892
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HANGED FOR HOUSE BURNING. Typical Southern Justice Meted Out to Incendiaries. Negroes, of Course. Tuscaloosa, Ala., Feb. 15-Within the past few 'weeks there have been severalfires at Sylvan, Ala., 13 miles below Tuscaloosa. A few nights since D. S. Robertson's store house was broken into,goods stolen and the building fired. A searching party was il stituted and, finding a trace, the fire fiends were pursued and finally caught A preliminary trial before a justice was granted the men, who were negroes, and they pleaded not guilty, but confessed to the burning of other buildings. A guard was placed in charge of the the night. During the still hours an armed mob of 30 men over* prisoners for powered the guards, took the prisoners to a tree and hanged them.
