Hanged to a Tree
- Title
- Hanged to a Tree
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Birmingham News
- Publication Place
- Birmingham, AL
- Publication Date
- 07/04/1901
- Transcript
- HANGED TO A TREE Was an Elmore County Negro for Shooting at a White Man. Special to the Birmingham News. Montgomery, Ala., July 4.-News has reached this place of the lynching of Robert White, a negro, Tuesday morning, near Tallassee, Elmore county. It seems that Robert White and his brother Winston were tenants on the farm of a Mr. Goodwin, and that they raised chickens with a man named Thomas. For some reason Thomas killed all the chickens belonging to the Whites. The two negroes retaliated Monday night by attacking him and firing several shots at him, which, however, did no damage. Thomas returned the fire, and Winston White was slightly wounded. Robert White was arrested, and while being carried to Wetumpka he was taken from the officers by a mob numbering about twenty-five men, and hanged to a tree. The officers having Winston White in charge eluded the mob and landed their prisoner safely in jail.
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