A Negro Lynched

Title

A Negro Lynched

Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

Times-Democrat

Publication Place

New Orleans, LA

Publication Date

12/28/1889

Transcript

Fayette Court House, Ala. A NEGRO LYNCHED. Special to The Times-Democrat. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 27.- Several days ago near Fayette Court House, Ala., Bud Wilson, a young negro man, entered the house of Mrs. James Fowler while she was alone and attempted to criminally assault her. She screamed, and the negro attempted to escape, but a neighbor heard the alarm, and, calling assistance, set out after the rascal. Wilson was caught a short distance from the house, but officers took charge of him and the next morning left Tuskaloosa, the county seat, with their prisoner. Meantime the news of the attempted assault spread in the neighborhood, and Fowler's friends determined to take the law in their own hands. They intercepted the officers in a stretch of woodland, and taking their prisoner from them, hung him to an adjoining tree and riddled his body with bullets. The matter has been kept very quiet and did not get outside of the neighborhood until after the negro had been buried for several days.

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