Died by Hanging and Shooting
- Title
- Died by Hanging and Shooting
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- The Boston Globe
- Publication Place
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Publication Date
- 01/06/1884
- Transcript
- Died by Hanging and Shooting. COLUMBUS, Miss., January 5.-Last Saturday, at Alta, William B. Pope was shot and killed by a negro named Lewis Austin. Austin was pursued by a party and captured. He was forthwith bung to the limb of a tree and his body fired full of bui- : lets. A jury was empanelled, and brought in the 1 following unique verdiet: "We find that Lewis Austin eame to his death by being hung and shot ( this, the 30th day of December."
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