A Negro Girl's Unnatural Crime

Title

A Negro Girl's Unnatural Crime

Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

Muscatine News-Tribune

Publication Place

Muscatine, Iowa

Publication Date

4/7/1891

Transcript

A Negro Girl's Unnatural Crime.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 7.- Miss Roxie Elliott, a negro school teacher, gave birth to an illegitimate child a few days ago, and in her effort to hide her shame she carried the babe to a dense thicket where she tied a rope around its neck and hung it to a tree. The child was discovered by hunters and the coroner's investigation brought out the facts. The mother is under arrest.

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