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| Source Type: | Newspaper |
| Publisher: | Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, The Evening News |
| Place of publication: | Wilkes-Barre, PA |
| Date of publication: | 6/6/1895 |
| Source URL: | View Source |
| Transcript: | A Lynching in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala. June – Near Strasburg, Ala., Jim Powell (colored) entered the room of Mary Bussey, aged 15, daughter of a prominent farmer, and attempted to assault her. She screamed for help. Her father came, but the negro had escaped. A posse was hastily organized and captured Powell near Calera. Powell’s body was found tho next morning hanging to a tree a mile from Strasburg. |
| Citation: | “A lynching in Alabama.” Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, The Evening News (Wilkes-Barre, PA), June 06, 1895. |