A Negro Rapist Lynched
- Title
- A Negro Rapist Lynched
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Savannah Morning News
- Publication Place
- Savannah, GA
- Publication Date
- 07/19/1884
- Transcript
- A Negro Rapist Lynched. BIRMIGHAM, ALA., July 18.-The negro Andy Burke, who waylaid the 13-year-old daughter of a prominent citizen at Tuscaloosa, Ala., Tuesday, while she was returning from school, and attempted to rape her, was found late last night, two miles from Tuscaloosa, in a cabin, with the doors and windows barricaded and provisions enough to last several days. A posse carried him before the little girl and she identified him. He then confessed the crime, was put in the guard house, and just before day was taken out by a mob and swung to a tree in front of the Presbyterian Church. While in the death throes the mob riddled him with bullets.
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