Hanged Four
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Title
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Hanged Four
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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The Houston Daily Post
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Publication Place
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Houston, Texas
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Publication Date
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06/18/1898
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Transcript
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HANGED FOUR. - Negroes Taken by the Alabama Mob Have Been Executed. Montgomery, Ala., June 17.-A telephone message from Wetumpka states that four of the prisoners taken from the jail there last night were hanged this morning at a point ten miles from Wetumpka and three miles from the scene of the crime. The four were Sol Jackson, Lewis Speir, Jesse Thompson and Camp Reese. The troops from here did not succeed In locating the prisoners, as the country is hilly and roughly wooded. Most of the night and this morning were spent in sort of trial, investigating the crime and getting at the guilty ones.
Hanged Four