Lynchers Get 10 Years

Title

Lynchers Get 10 Years

Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

Davie Record

Publication Place

Mocksville, NC

Publication Date

08/21/1901

Transcript

Lynchers Get 10 Years. Wetumpka, Ala., Special.-Friday night the jury hearing 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. 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.

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See all items with this valueRobin White Jr.

See all items with this valueAbram White