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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Russell Register
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Publication Place
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Seale, Alabama
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Publication Date
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5/21/1897
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Transcript
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NEGRO GIRLS LYNCHED. They Were Servants In the Unfortunate Keller Household. As a sequel to the recent poisoning cases in the Kelley family at Jeff, A1p the bodies of Mollie Smith and Mar Franks, negro girl servants ' In Kelley household, were found 'S' ing by ropes from trees on the the road leading from Jeff, A, Huntsville, Wednesday morning. The lynching was done at an i hour- by a mob of about twenty mt 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.