Sentenced for Lynching
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Title
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Sentenced for Lynching
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Sioux City Journal
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Publication Place
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Sioux City, IA
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Publication Date
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08/31/1901
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Transcript
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SENTENCED FOR LYNCHING. Third Conviction for Offense of This Kind in Alabama. Wetumpa, Ala., Aug. 30.-The jury in the cases of John Strength and Martin Fuller, charged with having participated in the lynching of Robert White, a negro, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced the defendants to ten years in the penitentiary. This makes three convictions in these cases, George Howard having been sentenced to life imprisonment a few days ago. The case of John Thomas, the white man with whom Robert White and his brother Winston had the difficulty which resulted in the lynching of Robert, is now on trial.
Sentenced for Lynching