TWO ALABAMA NEGRO GIRLS LYNCHED
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TWO ALABAMA NEGRO GIRLS LYNCHED
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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Chicago Tribune
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Publication Place
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Chicago, IL
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Publication Date
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5/13/1897
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TWO ALABAMA NEGRO GIRLS LYNCHED Mob Hangs Them to a Tree for Poison-ing tbe Family of Joseph, O'Kelly. Huntsville, Ala., May 12. At daybreak today the bodies of Mollie Smith and Mandy Franks, two negro girls, were found swinging from ropes from trees on the side of the road leading from Jeff, Ala., to Huntsville. The lynching was done at an early hour by a mob of about twenty persons. The two girls were suspected of poisoning the family of Joseph O'Kelly at Jeff. Mollie Smith was arrested last night while making her way across the Tennessee line, and Mandy Franks was captured.