Mob Lynches Two Tuscaloosa Negroes
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Mob Lynches Two Tuscaloosa Negroes
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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The Alexander City Outlook
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Publication Place
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Alexander City, AL
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Publication Date
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August 16, 1933
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Mob Lynches Two Tuscaloosa Negroes
TUSCALOOSA, Aug. 14. — Three negroes, being spirited from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham for safe keeping, pending trial on charges of slaying a 21-year-old white girl early yesterday were taken from officers and two of them later were found shot o death near Blocton, 23 miles west of Birmingham in Bibb county. No trace had been found of the third negro, despite an intensive search by officers of three counties. The removing followed increasing rumors here throughout Saturday that in attack would be made on the jail Saturday night to take the negroes, Dan Pippen, Jr., 18, Elmore Clark, Z8, and A. T. 'Harden, 16, who were under indictment in the slaying of Miss Vaudine Maddox in rural Tuscaloosa county several weeks ago. Pippen and Harden were the two found shot to death shortly before noon, while Clark had disappeared. Officers reported that bodies of the two negroes bore approximately 25 pistol wounds.
LATER : Elmore Clark, third member of the trio taken from Tuscaloosa county officers Saturday night, was found in a cabin Monday near Woodstock, suffering with gun shot wounds in the hip and arms and was carried to Tuscaloosa after medical aid had been rendered him by a colored physician, who had notified Sheriff Shamblin. The negro told officers the members of the mob were masked and that he was unable to identify any of them. The grand jury has been called by Judge Henry B. Foster to investigate the lynching.
