Negro Lynched
- Title
- Negro Lynched
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- The Journal
- Publication Place
- Huntsville, AL
- Publication Date
- 07/11/1901
- Transcript
- Negro Lynched. News comes of the lynching of Robert White, a negro, near Tallassee, Elmore county. Robert White and his brother, Winston, were tenants on the farm of Mr. Goodwin, and their chickens annoyed a truck farmer named Thomas. The latter killed all the fowls belonging to the Whites. One night last week the 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 jail.
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