Source Type: | Newspaper |
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Publisher: | The Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian |
Place of publication: | Carrollton, Alabama |
Date of publication: | 1884 |
Transcript: | A negro attempted to violate the person of a young lady last week in the northern part of Greene county. Over one hundred men assembled together and hunted for three days before finding the fiend. He was hanged to a tree for his crime. Society will protect itself everywhere. Our informant states that the colored people gave information that led to the arrest and that the brute made a similar attempt on a colored girl. |