"A Negro Killed"

Title

"A Negro Killed"

Source Type

Newspapers

Author

N/A

Publisher

The Florence Gazette

Publication Place

Florence, AL

Publication Date

04/09/1879

Transcript

"A NEGRO KILLED.
A negro man by the name of Frank Brown, while engaged in his usual evening entertainment of thrashing his wife with a trace-chain, was assaulted by his two little step-daughters, aged about 10 and 12 years, respectively, on last Thursday night, and wounded so severely that he died the following day. The little girls used an axe, and with one stroke sliced off a portion of the shoulder and collar bone, and with another, split open the rear of the skull. The parties worked on a river plantation near town. The little girls showed commendable spirit in protecting their mother. Frank was noted as a brutal fellow to his wife, and was beating her with a trace-chain for not greasing his boots, when her little daughters interfered.—Tuscaloosa Times."

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