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Source Type: | Newspaper |
Publisher: | Savannah Morning News |
Place of publication: | Savannah, GA |
Date of publication: | Jul 19, 1884 12:00 am |
Source URL: | View Source |
Transcript: | A Negro Rapist Lynched. BIRMIGHAM, ALA., July 18.-The negro Andy Burke, who waylaid the 13-year-old daughter of a prominent citizen at Tuscaloosa, Ala., Tuesday, while she was returning from school, and attempted to rape her, was found late last night, two miles from Tuscaloosa, in a cabin, with the doors and windows barricaded and provisions enough to last several days. A posse carried him before the little girl and she identified him. He then confessed the crime, was put in the guard house, and just before day was taken out by a mob and swung to a tree in front of the Presbyterian Church. While in the death throes the mob riddled him with bullets. |