A Negro Lynched

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: St. Joseph News-Press
Place of publication: St. Joseph, MO
Date of publication: Jul 19, 1884 12:00 am
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Transcript:

A Negro Lynched. TUSCALOOSA, Als, July 19.- Henry Burke, colored, who attempted to outrage a little white girl, was captured last sight in the garret of an old house. A mob at midnight took him from jail and banged him to a tree in the street. Ballets were fired into his body.