Two More Convictions
- Title
- Two More Convictions
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Chattanooga Daily Times
- Publication Place
- Chattanooga, TN
- Publication Date
- 08/31/1901
- Transcript
- TWO MORE CONVICTIONS Of Men Implicated in Alabama Lynching. GUILTY OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER They Are Sentenced to Ten Years in the Penitentiary -Other Cases Are Now On Trial. Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 30.-A special to the Advertiser from Wetumpka, Ala., says: At 12 o'clock last night the jury in the cases of John Strength and Martin Fuller, charged with having participated in the lynching of Robert White, a negro, returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced the defendants to ten years in the penitentiary. This makes three convictions in these cases, George Howard having been sentenced to life imprisonment a few days ago. The case of John Thomas, the white man with whom Robert White and his brother, Winston, had the difficulty which resulted in the lynching of Robert, is now on trial. A strenuous effort for a continuance was made by the defendants, the main contention being the absence of witnesses, two of whom are alleged to have left the country, under indictments charging them with complicity in the lynching. Judge Denson decided that the case will be heard at once. Every step is being contested, and the trial may consume several days. The posse did not find the negro at the Sankey school house but learned that he had boarded a westbound Missouri Pacific train three miles west of Holden. The train left at 8:30 and a telegram to the conductor was sent to Pleasant Hill. The conductor wired back that the negro had ridden about ten miles and jumped off near Trasburg, where there is a dense forest. A posse from Holden immediately started for the neighborhood in which the negro is supposed to be in hiding.
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