Others Implicated

Title

Others Implicated

Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

The Houston Post

Publication Place

Houston, TX

Publication Date

10/03/1900

Transcript

Montgomery, Ala., October 2.-The negro Waldo Townsend, burned in Elmo, county this morning, made a confession, implicating seven other negroes in his, crime. As this Is the second white wo-, man assaulted there within the month it, is now believed by the people of that section that there is a conspiracy among the, negroes. One of the negroes implicated, in the confession of Townsend was in jail, at Wetumpka charged with burglary, and, as threats of lynching were made the negro, Virgil Miller, was brought here to-, night and placed in the Montgomery county jail. The deputy sheriff had a wild, drive of fourteen miles through the, country and had he been thirty minutes, later in reaching here a crowd of men, who came by train would have intercepted, him. After reaching here two other negroes who are implicated in the crime, were arrested by deputies. They are, Frank Floyd and Jake Floyd, brothers of, the negro Zeb Floyd who was lynched, near Wetumpka on September 9., A singular coincidence is that Mrs. Harrington, who was assaulted yesterday, is, a kinswoman of Miss Pearson, who was, assaulted on September 3, for which Zeb, Floyd was lynched. It is believed the conspiracy is directed against the members, of a white family. Three negroes are now, in jail in Montgomery and more trouble, may arise.

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