Lynchers Get Ten Years

Title

Lynchers Get Ten Years

Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

Hopewell Herald

Publication Place

Hopewell, NJ

Publication Date

09/04/1901

Transcript

Lynchers Get Ten Years. At Wetumpka, Ala., 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 White, is now on trial.

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See all items with this valueAbram White

See all items with this valueRobin White Jr.