Shot In Bed

Title

Shot In Bed

Source Type

Newspapers

Author

Chattanooga Times

Publisher

Chattanooga

Publication Place

Chattanooga, AL

Publication Date

07/09/1878

Transcript

SHOT IN BED. White Mob Makes Short Work of Negro Lothario. Special to the Chattanooga Times. BIRMINGHAM, ALA., July 10.-Information has just been received from Tuskaloosa County of the killing of Wash Bell, a negro, by a mob of white men. Bell had been arrested for wife beating and was being tried at Trigg's Store, in Dodson Flat. Officer Cunningham had taken the prisoner to Trigg's Store, where his trial was to have taken place yesterday. The officer and the negro were sleeping on pallets in a rear room of the store. During the night a number of armed men broke open the room, rushed in and shot the negro to death and disappeared before they could be recognized. Bell had seduced a white girl near that place, and the citizens took revenge on him.

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