Lynched Two Negro Girls
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Title
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Lynched Two Negro Girls
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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The Cullman Tribune
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Publication Place
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Cullman, Alabama
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Publication Date
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5/20/1897
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Transcript
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Lynched Two Negro Girls. Near Huntsville, Ala., last week, Mollie Smith and Mandy Franks, negro girls, were lynched by being hung to the-limbs of a tree on the road leading to Jeff, Ala. The two negresses were guilty of the crime of poisoning the family of Joshua Kelly at Jeff, Ala., and the punishment meted out to them was severe and certain.