More Convictions in Elmore Cases
- Title
- More Convictions in Elmore Cases
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Birmingham Age-Herald
- Publication Place
- Birmingham, AL
- Publication Date
- 08/31/1901
- Transcript
- MORE CONVICTIONS IN ELMORE CASES John Strength and Martin Fuller Found Guilty and Given Ten Years Wetumpka, August 30.-(Special.)-The jury in the case 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 fixed the punishment at ten years in the penitentiary. This makes three convictions in these cases, George Howard having been sentenced to life imprisonment. 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. The defense made a strenuous effort for a continuance, the main contention being the absence of witnesses, two of whom are alleged to have left the county 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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