A Deserved Fate

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: Quad-City Times
Place of publication: Davenport, Iowa
Date of publication: Jul 19, 1884 12:00 am
Source URL: View Source
Transcript:

A DESERVED FATE. Chicago, July 19.-The Daily News of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, says Henry Burke (colored) who attempted to outrage a lit- tle white girl, was captured last night in a garret of an old house by a mob at midnight, which took him from the jail and hanged him to a tree in the street, and put five bullets in his body.