Tragedy in Walker

Title

Tragedy in Walker

Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

The Times - Argus

Publication Place

Selma, Alabama

Publication Date

01/18/1884

Transcript

Birmingham Age. Mr. L. B. Musgrove, editor ofThe Jasper Eagle, who was in the city yesterday, re- ports a murder followed immediately by a lynching which occurred Friday alternoon in Walker county near-sthe Fayette line. A boss or contractor, a white man named Pope and a negro, both employes of the western division of the Georgia Pacific Railway, had an altercation and the negro, who was drunk, shot Pope through the heart, killing him instantly. The mur- derer was immediately secured by the road laborers, most of them negroes, and hanged to the nearest tree. The remote- ness of the scene from mail and telegraph facilities prevents the prompt publication of fuller details. Birmingham Age. Mr. L. B. Musgrove, editor ofThe Jasper Eagle, who was in the city yesterday, re- ports a murder followed immediately by a lynching which occurred Friday alternoon in Walker county near-sthe Fayette line. A boss or contractor, a white man named Pope and a negro, both employes of the western division of the Georgia Pacific Railway, had an altercation and the negro, who was drunk, shot Pope through the heart, killing him instantly. The mur- derer was immediately secured by the road laborers, most of them negroes, and hanged to the nearest tree. The remote- ness of the scene from mail and telegraph facilities prevents the prompt publication of fuller details.

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