Posse Kills Companion of Fugitive- -, Lynching Probable.
- Title
- Posse Kills Companion of Fugitive- -, Lynching Probable.
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Chattanooga Daily Times
- Publication Place
- Chattanooga, AL
- Publication Date
- 11/11/1912
- Transcript
- Posse Kills Companion of Fugitive- -, Lynching Probable., MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov. 10.-A, special to the Advertiser from Wetumka, Ala., says:, A mob of infuriated citizens is, scouring the woods in the vicinity of, Floyd for a negro, who, earlier in the, day. shot and fatally wounded John, Chrisitzberg. a prominent Elmore county, farmer. Early in the afternoon the, same posse killed a negro, Berney, companion of the unknown negro when, Chrisitzberg was shot, and who himself, shot and killed Claude Kidd, one of the, pursuing posse. A cabin in which BeRney was hiding was burned to make, the negro come out into the open. It, is learned that the trouble started when, the two negroes. bv careless driving., caused the horse of Chrisitzberg's daughters to run away. Details of the tragedy are meagre.
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