Two Girls Lycnhed

Item

Title
Two Girls Lycnhed
Source Type
Newspapers
Publisher
Estherville Daily News
Publication Place
Estherville, Iowa
Publication Date
5/20/1897
Transcript
Two Girls Lynched. Thursday morning the bodies of Mollie Smith and Muud Franks, negro girls, were found swinging from the trees on the side if the road from Jeff to Huntsville, Ala. The lynching was done by a mob. The girls were suspected of poisoning the fami ly of Joseph Kelly at Jen*.