Homicide of a Colored Register

Title: Homicide of a Colored Register
Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Lancaster News
Publication Place: Lancaster, South Carolina
Publication Date: 7/17/1867
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 for Hale 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 a statement, which was denied by some colored boys present. Orrick interceded, sustaining the position of the boys, and his assertion was pronounced a d—— lie. He asked Webb if he knew who he was talking to. The negro replied that he did—a d—— son of a b——.
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 for a most wanton insult, as many white men have done under similar circumstances.”
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