A Lyncher Sentenced
- Title
- A Lyncher Sentenced
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Deseret Evening News
- Publication Place
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Publication Date
- 08/29/1901
- Transcript
- A LYNCHER SENTENCED. Member of an Alabama Mob Gets Life Imprisonment. Wetumpka, Ala., Aug. 28.-George Howard was today convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. Howard was a member of the mob that lynched Robert White a negro, in this county, some months ago. He is one of the most prominent farmers in this section of the county. White, who was accused of shooting at a white man, was taken from the officers who had him in custody and hanged.
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