Four Negroes Were Lynched
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Title
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Four Negroes Were Lynched
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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The Inter Ocean
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Publication Place
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Chicago, Illinois
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Publication Date
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06/19/1898
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Transcript
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FOUR NEGROES WERE LYNCHED., Authorities Endeavoring to Locate, Members of the Mob. Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean. BONTGOMERY, Ala., June 18.-The authorities are investigating the lynching of the four prisoners from Wetumpka jail last, night and endeavoring to locate the guilty, parties. The Montgomery troops lost all, track of the prisoners after they had fallen, into the hands of the mob, owing to the hilly, character of the country. Solomon Jackson, Jesse Thompson. Camp Reese, and Lewis Spier were under arrest on the charge of murdering a man of the name of Carden and his, wife, and John Charles, near Wetumpka: The, crimes were committed for money. Four of, the negroes admitted their guilt and one of, them divulged where the money was secreted.
