An Alabama Lynching
- Title
- An Alabama Lynching
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Vicksburg Herald
- Publication Place
- Vicksburg, MS
- Publication Date
- 07/04/1901
- Transcript
- AN ALABAMA LYNCHING. - Montgomery, Ala., July 3.-News just reached here of the lynching of Robert White, negro, yesterday morning near Tallahassee, Elmore county. Robert White and brother Winston were tenants on the farm of Mr. Goodwin, and their chickens annoyed a farmer named Thomas. The latter killed all the fowls belonging to the Whites. Monday night the two negroes attacked Thomas and fired several shots at him, doing no damage, however. Thomas returned the fire and slightly wounded Winston White. Robert White was arrested, and while on the way to Wetumpka a mob, numbering twenty-five 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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