A Murder and a Lynching on the S.M. Spot

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: Birmingham Iron Age
Place of publication: Birmingham, AL
Date of publication: Jan 16, 1884 12:00 am
Transcript:

– – a Mard>rand a – ynehing On the s.m. Spot. Mr. L. B. Musgrove editor of the Jaspe Eagle, who was in the city yesterday, re- orts a murder fellowed immediately by nching whichoccurred Friday afternooi n Walker county near the Fayette line. bess or contractor, a white man name ope and a negro, both employees of ih . estern division of the Georgia Paciti alway, had an altercation,and the negr ho was drunk, shot Pope through tu eart, killing him instantly. The mui derer was immediately secured by the road laborers, most of them negroes, an. hanged to the nearest tree. Th. remoteness of the scene from mail an elegraph facilities prevents the promp ublication of fuller details. – – a Mard>rand a – ynehing On the s.m. Spot. Mr. L. B. Musgrove editor of the Jaspe Eagle, who was in the city yesterday, re- orts a murder fellowed immediately by nching whichoccurred Friday afternooi n Walker county near the Fayette line. bess or contractor, a white man name ope and a negro, both employees of ih . estern division of the Georgia Paciti alway, had an altercation,and the negr ho was drunk, shot Pope through tu eart, killing him instantly. The mui derer was immediately secured by the road laborers, most of them negroes, an. hanged to the nearest tree. Th. remoteness of the scene from mail an elegraph facilities prevents the promp ublication of fuller details.