Bibb County Mob Makes Short Work of Negro

Item

Title
Bibb County Mob Makes Short Work of Negro
Source Type
Newspapers
Publisher
The Birmingham News
Publication Place
Birmingham, AL
Publication Date
10/12/1910
Transcript
BIBB COUNTY MOB MAKES SHORT WORK OF NEGRO Grant Richardson Taken Away from Deputy Near Centerville. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 12.-Grant Richardson, a negro of Bibb county, was lynched last night near Centreville by an angry mob of white residents of the county. He was being brought to the Bibb county Jail on charge of assaulting a white woman, when the deputy having him in charge was overpowered and the negro's body riddled with bullets.