To Investigate a Lynching
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To Investigate a Lynching
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Times-Democrat
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Publication Place
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New Orleans, LA
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Publication Date
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07/06/1901
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TO INVESTIGATE A LYNCHING. Alabama's Governor Determined That Guilty Ones Shall Be Brought to Justice. Special to The Times-Democrat Montgomery Ala.. July 5.- Gov. Jelks is in close communication with the judge. soliciter and sheriff of Elmore county relative to Wednesday's lynching of the negro, Robert White, in that county. and is fully determined to institute searching investigations until the guilty parties are apprehended and brought to justice. The Second Alabama Regiment will go into camp for a week at Eufaula. The Montgomery artillery and cavalry will on July 24 go to Mobile to spend their encampment Capt. Hinderer of the artillery expects to take sixty men along with him. Capt. Wiley anticipates taking nearly every member of the cavalry. Major C. R. Westcott of Montgomery will command the artillery, while Judge J. T. Beck of Camden will be in command of the cavalry. The Governor to-day appointed E. H. Shaffer notary public at Mobile.
