"The Elmore White Cappers."
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Title
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"The Elmore White Cappers."
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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The Birmingham State Herald
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Publication Place
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Birmingham, AL
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Publication Date
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01/26/1896
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Transcript
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The Elmore White Cappers. This morning at Wetumpka a jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree against Joseph Jowers and John Edmonds, and a verdict of not guilty in the case of John Morgan, the Wetumpka White Cappers. Jowers and Edmonds were sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. These are the men who, as White Cappers, murdered a negro farmer in Elmore county last March. The circuit court convened in special session Monday to try the case, and has de- voted the whole week to it. The attorney-general assisted in the prosecution.
