Another Alabama Negro Lynched

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Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

St. Louis Globe-Democrat

Publication Place

St. Louis, Missouri

Publication Date

5/14/1897

Transcript

Another Alabama. Negro Lynched. Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat. BIRMINGHAM, ALA., May 13. Jim Nace, alias Williams, colored, an intimate friend of Amanda Franks and Mollie Smith, the negro girls who were lynched at Jeff. Ala., Tuesday night for murdering Joshua O. Kelly and causing the dangerous illness of thirty other persons with poison is believed to have been shot to death early today. An armed posse has been searching for the negro, who it is believed, instigated the girls to do the poisoning because he had been discharged from employment by Kelly. He has been hiding in the swamps since Monday. At daylight to-day, it is said, Nace was tracked to his hiding place by his pursuers and shot down. After riddling his body with bullets the avengers, it is said, hid it in the swamps. The posse returned, its members saying that the search had been abandoned. The Coroner's Jury held an inquest over the bodies of the dead girls late yesterday and returned a verdict of death "at the hands of unknown parties."

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