Hanged by a Mob
- Title
- Hanged by a Mob
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Austin Daily Statesman
- Publication Place
- Austin, TX
- Publication Date
- 07/04/1901
- Transcript
- HANGED BY A MOB. A Negro Lynched for Shooting at a White Man. - MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 3.-News just reached here of the lynching of Robert White, negro, yesterday morning near Tallahassee, Elmore county, Robert White and brother, Winston, working on the farm of Mr. Goodwin, engaged in a fight with a farmer named Thompson. The latter killed all the fowls belonging to the Whites. Monday night the two negroes attacked Thompson and fired several shots at him, but did no damage, Thompson returned the fire and severely wounded Winston White. Robert White was arrested and while on his 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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