Mob Took Negro Woman From Jail
- Title
- Mob Took Negro Woman From Jail
- Source Type
- Newspaper
- Publisher
- The Nashville Globe
- Publication Place
- Nashville, TN
- Publication Date
- 07/29/1910
- Transcript
-
MOB TOOK NEGRO WOMAN FROM
JAIL.
Who Kept Disorderly Resort, and Be
lieved to Have Drowned Her.
Monroe, La, July 25. Unidentified
men broke into the city jail here early
to-day and carried off Laura Porter,
a Negro woman, who was keeper of a
resort where white men frequented.
It is generally believed that she was
thrown into the Ouachita River and
drowned.
The woman had been waa-ne dto
leave town many times prior itb her
recent arrest. - Sources for
- Laura Porter
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