Shot at White Man
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Title
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Shot at White Man
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Galena Evening Times
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Publication Place
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Galena, KS
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Publication Date
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07/05/1901
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Transcript
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SHOT AT WHITE MAN. Negro Who Objected to Having His Chickens Killed Is Hanged by a Mob In Alabama. - Montgomery, Ala., July 5.-News has reached Montgomery of the lynching of Robert White, a negro, near Tallassee, Elmore county. Chickens owned by White and his brother, Winston White, annoyed a truck farmer named Thomas, who killed the fowls. That night the two negroes fired several shots at Thomas, but did not hit him. Thomas returned the fire and slightly wounded Winston White. Robert White was arrested and while on the way to Wetumpka a mob numbering 25 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.
Shot at White Man