Penitentiary for Lynchers

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Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

Greene County Herald

Publication Place

Leakesville, MS

Publication Date

09/06/1901

Transcript

PENITENTIARY FOR LYNCHERS. Two More Wetumpka Mobbers Get Long Terms. Wetumpka, Ala.-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 Johns, 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 bitterly contested and the trial may consume several days.

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