Both are Found Guilty
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Title
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Both are Found Guilty
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Savannah Morning News
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Publication Place
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Savannah, GA
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Publication Date
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08/31/1901
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Transcript
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BOTH ARE FOUND GUILTY. Strength and Fuller Sentenced to Ten Year Terms. Wetumpka, Ala., Aug. 30.-Last night the jury hearing the case 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 defendant 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, is now on trial.
Both are Found Guilty