Homicide of a Colored Register

Title

Source Type

Newspaper

Publisher

The Anderson Intelligencer

Publication Place

Anderson, South Carolina

Publication Date

7/10/1867

Transcript

HOMICIDE OF A COLORED REGISTER A few weeks since, at Greensboro', Ala., Mr. John C. Orrick shot and killed a negro, by the name of Aleck Webb, who had been appointed one of the Registers fot Hali county. Considerable excitement was the result; and for several days a collision of the two races appeared imminent. The Montgomery Advertiser of a late date gives the following version of the affair:

"Webb; the colored register, walked into the store of Orrick and made it statement, which Was denied by some sustain- colored boys present: Orrick interceded, ing the position of the boys; and his assertion was pronounced a d-d lie.He asked Webb if he knew who he was to: The negro replied that he did; a son of a b-h. 'Orrick drew a pistol, shot him, and, as soon as he could arrange his papers, left. The matter had nothing to do with the registry, and the colored man forfeited his life tor a most wanton insult, and as many white men have done under similar circumstances."

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