Fatal Shooting at Lock Sixteen
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Title
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Fatal Shooting at Lock Sixteen
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Source Type
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Newspaper
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Publisher
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Tuscaloosa News
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Publication Place
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Tuscaloosa, AL
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Publication Date
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12/28/1911
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Transcript
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FATAL SHOOTING AT LOCK SIXTEEN LAMB MOSS, A NEGRO,KILLED BY TWO WHITE MEN SUNDAY NIGHT. A shooting scrape productive of fatal results occourred at Lock 16 Sunday night, with Lamb Moss, a negro the victim of the shots of Sam Bush and Joe Morgan, white men. What brought about the trouble cannot be learned, as both white men who are now in the county jail will have little to say concerning the scrap, outside of the fact that Moss was the aggressor, and shot at them first. They state that Moss fired twelve shots at them, using a 38 calibre revolver, none of the shots taking effect. Moss was shot in two places, a shotgun load cutting his arm nearly in two, while a revolver bullet pierced his body. The two men charged with killing the negro were brought down Monday by P. G. Wilson, and lodged in the county jail pending a preliminary hearing.
