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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The Clayton Record
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Publication Place
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Clayton, Alabama
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Publication Date
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5/22/1897
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Transcript
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NEGRO GIRLS LYNCHED. They Were Servants In the Unfortunate Kelley llousehold. As a sequel to the recent poisoning cases in the Kelley family at Jeff, Ala., the bodies of Mollie Smith and Mandv Franks, negro girl servants in the Kelley household, were found swing ing by ropes from trees on the side of the road leading from Jeff, Ala., to Huntsville, Wednesday morning. I he lynching was done at an earlv 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.