Alabama Lynching
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Title
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Alabama 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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07/04/1901
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Transcript
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ALABAMA LYNCHING. Negro Hanged for Shooting at a Farmer. Montgomery, Ala., July 3.-News has just been received in Montgomery of the lynching of Robert White, negro, yesterday morning, near Tallassee, Elmore county. Robert White and his brother, Winston, were tenants on the farm of a Mr. Goodwin, and their chickens annoyed a truck farmer named Thomas. The latter killed all the fowls belonging to the Whites. Monday night the two negroes attacked Thomas and fired several shots at him. doing no damage, how- ever. Thomas returned the fire and slightly wounded Winston White. Robert White was arrested, and while on the way to Wetumpka a mob numbering twenty-five men took him from the officers and hanged him to a tree. The officers having Winston White in charge succeeded in eluding the mob and placed their prisoner in the county jail.
Alabama Lynching