Alabama Lynching
- Title
- Alabama Lynching
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Marshall Messenger
- Publication Place
- Marshall, TX
- Publication Date
- 06/02/1901
- Transcript
- ALABAMA LYNCHING. Two Negroes Engage in a Fight With a Farmer and one Swings. Montgomery, Ala., July 4. - News has just reached here of the lynching of Robert White, a negro, Tuesday morning near Tallahassee, Elmore county. Robert White and brother Winston, working on the farm of Mr. Goodwin, engaged in a fight with a farmer named Gardner. The latter killed all the fowls belonging to the Whites Monday night, the two negroes attacked Thompson and fired several shots at him but did no damage. Thompson returned the fire and severely wounded Winston White. Robert White was arrested and while on the way to Wetumpka, a mob numbering 25 men took him from the officers and hanged him to a tree. The officers having Winston White in charge succeeded in eluding the mob and placed their prisoner in the county jail.
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