NEGRO GIRLS LYNCHED
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Title
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NEGRO GIRLS LYNCHED
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Cleburne New Era
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Publication Place
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Heflin, Alabama
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Publication Date
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5/20/1897
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Transcript
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NEGRO GIRLS LYNCHED. They Were Servants In the Unfortunate Kelley Household. As a sequel to the recent poisoning cases in the Kelley family at Jeff, Ala., the bodies of Mollie Smith and Mandy Franks, negro girl servants in the Kelley household, were found swinging by ropes from trees on the side of the road leading from Jeff, Ala., to Huntsville, Wednesday morning. The lynching was done at an early hour by a mob of about twenty men. The girls were suspected of poisoning the family of Joshua Kelley at Jeff. Mollie Smith - was arrested while making her way across the Tennessee line, and Mandy Franks was captured at home. The latter is said to have made a confession.