Negro Lynched
- Title
- Negro Lynched
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Nashville Banner
- Publication Place
- Nashville, TN
- Publication Date
- 07/04/1901
- Transcript
- NEGRO LYNCHED. Made Way With by a Mob in Elmore County. Montgomery, July 4.-News has just been received in Montgomery of the lynching of Robert White, negro, yesterday morning near Tallahassee, Elmore County. Robert White and brother, Winston, were tenants on the farm of a Mr. Goodwin and their chickens annoyed a truck 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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