The Elmore Lynchers
- Title
- The Elmore Lynchers
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Weekly Herald
- Publication Place
- Wetumpka, AL
- Publication Date
- 09/05/1901
- Transcript
- THE ELMORE LYNCHERS. A few weeks ago Robert White, a negro, was taken from the officers and lynched in Elmore county. The governor started an investigation, ten men were arrested and three of them have been tried. Convictions have resulted In every case. George Howard, the first one tried and a prominent citizen, was sentenced to life imprisonment and John Strength and Martin Fuller to ten years each. John Thomas, the white man with whom Robert White, and his brother, Winston, had the difficulty, which resulted in the lynching of Robert, is now on trial. The defense made a strenuous effort for a continuance, the main contention being the absence of witnesses, two of whom are alleged to have left the county under indictments charging them with complicity in the lynching. Judge Denson decided that the case will be heard at once. Every step is being bitterly contested, and the trial may consume several days.
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