Lynchers Get Ten Years
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Title
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Lynchers Get Ten Years
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Wilkes-Barre Leader
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Publication Place
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Wilkes-Barre, PA
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Publication Date
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08/31/1901
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Transcript
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Lynchers Get Ten Years. Wetumpka, Ala., Aug. 31.-Last night the jury hearing 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. 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 White, is now on trial.
Lynchers Get Ten Years