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| Source Type: | Newspaper |
| Publisher: | The Hickman Courier |
| Place of publication: | Hickman Kentucky |
| Date of publication: | 6/13/1902 0:00 |
| Source URL: | View Source |
| Transcript: | A FAMOUS CASE. Four White Men, Imprisoned For Lynching a Negro, Pardoned. Montgomery, Ala. June 9.-Gov. Jelks Sunday pardoned Geo. Howard, , Martin Fuller and John Strength, three at the four white men convicted in El- more county of lynching the Negro Robin White, and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. The case is famous as the only in- stance in Alabama where a white man has been convicted of lynching a Ne- gro. The men had served one year. A FAMOUS CASE. Four White Men, Imprisoned For Lynching a Negro, Pardoned. Montgomery, Ala. June 9.-Gov. Jelks Sunday pardoned Geo. Howard, , Martin Fuller and John Strength, three at the four white men convicted in Elmore county of lynching the Negro Robin White, and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. The case is famous as the only in- stance in Alabama where a white man has been convicted of lynching a Ne- gro. The men had served one year. |