TWO NEGRO WOMEN LYNCHED.
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Title
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TWO NEGRO WOMEN LYNCHED.
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Huntsville Weekly Democrat
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Publication Place
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Huntsville, Alabama
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Publication Date
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5/19/1897
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TWO NEGRO WOMEN LYNCHED 5- Amanda Franks and Mollie Smith Coul8- to HiVi th Kel'y Faro Hanged by mob. ' On Wi dues lay morning. May 12, as the mail cirrier from Jefl and other postoilices, was pissing through the wood near tl.e 'J. O, K Ily reai-deuce be siw two bodies of women hanging from an oak tree. . He gave the alarm, and the bodies were cut down aud identified as Aiuimfi Franks aud Mollie Soiitn, who were nej;ro employers of the KeJ.y cn-i, -,ia ,.i . i : . i the family with arsenic, at the lusti-t;atioo ot Mollie. Two mout'is ago 14 persons were made ill by artenic placed in the coflee at Mi Kelly's residence. Mr J O Kelly died from the effect of tup.ia)U, .and 21 persons, who attended thef.iueral and ate at the boute. Were taken ill from arsenic placed iu the sausage. It was t'loug lit that rat poison had, iu 'some way fallen in th food, and evt r-thing was destroyed that could urtber convey it, aud employees on the premises w re carefully watched. Oo Thursday, 'day 6tb, there were 14 persons ou t e lot made ill by arsenic again, found to be in the biscuit. The entire county was roused by this third attempt to annihilate a fan ily that his been beloved and respected, and various conjectures were made as to who a. s the bace perp irator of so inhuman and horrible a crime. Mollie S nith was suspected as she was found only to e feigning sickness when the others ivere ill, and as she bore a b d character, her tV' ry action wa9 watched. On Tuesday ni.bt. May lltb, a mob -vent to a mgro woman's bouse ou the place a id took Amanda White nd Mollie Smith the bouse girls who were susprcttd, and told them if they had anything to confess to do so. Amanda confessed to hayiui" p it the irsenic in the H iur at Mollie's ineli-a'iou, and said that Mollie put the poison in the coffee and e. usage, 'lollie was sullen and refused to say inything. They were bofj strung up ind their bo lies left as before, stated. VVho comprised the lynchers, no one mows and the Coroner's ii.queet reports "by p tsuls unknown." It vos a tearful tragedy from beinoia to end and, it is to be hoped, fiat thi will be the finale of the last chapter.