Reward for Murderers, Got the Fifth One
- Title
- Reward for Murderers, Got the Fifth One
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- The Weekly Corinthian
- Publication Place
- Corinth, MS
- Publication Date
- 09/28/1898
- Transcript
- Reward for Murderers. The governor of Alabama has offered reward of $200 for the arrest and conviction of the murderers of Joe Tompson, a negro, in Tallapoosa county. His body was found mutilated. Got the Fifth One. Four negroes were lynched three months age at Wetumpka, Ala., on suspicion of murder. A fifth escaped He was captured and started for jail but his body has been found.
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