TWO NEGRO GIRLS LYNCHED.
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Title
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TWO NEGRO GIRLS LYNCHED.
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Source Type
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Newspapers
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Publisher
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The Kansas City Times
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Publication Place
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Kansas City, MO
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Publication Date
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05/13/1897
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Transcript
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TWO NEGRO GIRLS LYNCHED. Punished by Alabama Mob for Wholesale Poisoning. Huntsville, May 12. The corpses of two negresses, Nellie Smith and Mandy White, are dangling from the limb of a live oak Just on the outskirts of the village of Jeff. They were hanged last night for poisoning Joshua Kelly a well-known citizen. The girls confessed to two attempts on the lives of the Kelly family. The first attempt resulted in the death of Mr. Kelly. Sheriff Powell has gone to the scene to cut down the bodies. Nine weeks ago the first attempt on the lives of the Kelly family was made. The family sickened shortly after eating supper. and Joshua Kelly died twenty-four hours afterward. On May I the family and tenants of the deceased were poisoned again in some mysterious manner.
There were six whites and eight negroes affected. Messrs. D. E. and Lamson Kelly became critically ill.
as did Mrs. Kelly. Oakley Woodward, clerk in a store, who came near dying from the other poisoning, and a Tennessee drummer, who spent the night with them, were two Other victims. Incriminating evidence was found Saturday at the Kelly home at Jeff, and a clue in the shape of a box of poison led to the detection of the negresses.