Lynching Story of Clark Negro Given by Paper
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Lynching Story of Clark Negro Given by Paper
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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The Selma Times- Journal
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Publication Place
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Selma, AL
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Publication Date
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August 14, 1933
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Lynching Story of Clark Negro Given by Paper
Wounded Prisoner Describes Outrage In Interview
TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Aug. 15-.—VP) —The Tuscaloosa News today carried a description of the lynching of two negroes and the wounding of a third which the paper said was abtained by an authoritative source from Elmore Clark, the wounded victim. Clark, the paper says, confirmed the statements of the deputies that they were overpowered by two car-loads of masked men as the officers were transferring the negroes from the jail here to Birmingham for safe keeping. After being removed from the officers car, Clark was quoted as saying, he and Dan Pippen, Jr., 18, and A. T. Harden, 16, all indicted on a charge of killing a young white woman, were carried several miles in an automobile occupied by part of the band. The party came to a halt in a —woods and the prisoners were lined up and questioned. Clark was quoted as saying, and when Harden was asked who killed the young woman, Miss Vaudine Maddox, daughter of a farmer, the 'negro pointed to Pippen. At this point, the negro was quoted as saying, the three, handcuffed together, were lined up and shot. Clark said he fell beneath the body of Pippen and a portion of that of Harden. The negro said he lay still until the men had gone and then "asked the Lord what to do, and the Lord said 'get something and knock that handcuff off your arm.' " The handcuff was on Clark's withered left arm, and he said it was easy for him to knock it off his arm after he had found a rock close by. After wandering all day Sunday
