NEGRO SAVAGE LYNCHED

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Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

Washington Post

Publication Place

Washington, D.C

Publication Date

07/14/1898

Transcript

\NEGRO SAVAGE LYNCHED, Had Assaulted One Woman and Attacked, Another with Name Intent., Special to The Pest., Birmingham Ala., July 11.-Near Coaling. Tuscaloosa County. last night. Sidney, Johnson, colored, entered the home of, Mrs. Hodges, a widow, who resides alone, with her small children, choked her into insensibility and then criminally assaulted her, leaving her nearer dead than alive. A small son of the victim sprang out of a window and ran for help. Posses were organized and the negro chased all night, This morning, six miles from the scene, of his first crime, Johnson attacked Miss Cobb, a sixteen-year-old girl, while she was getting water at a spring. She fought him furiously and screamed for help. Her two sisters came from the house near by and the three put the negro to flight. An hour later the mob overhauled Johnson, who was taken before Miss Cobb, who promptly Identified, him, after which the was strung up to a tree and riddled with bullets. The condition of Mrs. Hodges is critical, and she may die.

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