An Alabama Lynching
- Title
- An Alabama Lynching
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Arkansas Gazette
- Publication Place
- Little Rock, AR
- Publication Date
- 07/04/1901
- Transcript
- AN ALABAMA LYNCHING. Negro Hanged by a Mob for Shooting at a Farmer About Chickens. Montgomery, Ala., July 3.-News has just reached here of the lynching of Robert White, a negro, yesterday morning near Tallahassee, Elmore county. Robert White and brother, Winston, were tenants on the farm of Mr. Goodwin, and their chickens annoyed a farmer named Thomas. The latter killed all the fowls belonging to the Whites. Monday night the negroes attacked Thomas and fired several shots at him, doing no damage, however. Thomas returned the fire and slightly wounded Winston White. Robert White was arrested, and while on the way to Wetumpka a mob numbering twenty-five men took him from the officers and hanged him to a tree. The officers having Winston White in charge succeeded in eluding the mob and placed their prisoner in the county jail.
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