"Lost" Negro's Body Found
- Title
- "Lost" Negro's Body Found
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- Birmingham News
- Publication Place
- Birmingham, AL
- Publication Date
- 09/21/1898
- Transcript
- REWARD OFFERED. "Lost" Negro's Body Found and Investigation Will Be Made. Yesterday's Montgomery Journal says: The Governor has offered a reward of $200 for the arrest and conviction of the murderers of Jim Thompson in Tallapoosa county. Thereby hangs a gruesome story. It will be remembered that two or three months ago a mob lynched four negroes near Wetumpka. on the charge of robbing and murdering an aged white man and his wife and another old man who lived with the couple. several miles from that town. The Governor ordered State troops to pro- ceed to Wetumpka and protect the alleged murderers, but they arrived too late: the mob had done its share of murdering One negro man named Jim Thompson. charged with complicity in the crime for which the four were lynched. escaped. Recently he was arrested in Tallapoosa. and three men started with him to jail. They "lost" him on the way. The other day his body was found in the Tallapoosa river. disemboweled and with a weight tied about it. There were also other marks of violence. The Governor will pay $200 for the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators of this horrible crime.
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