Alabama and Mississippi Mobs Lynch Two Negroes Escaped Convict Assaulted White Woman; Young Black Murders Boy

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Source Type: Newspaper
Author: n.a.
Publisher: Oakland Tribune
Place of publication: Oakland, CA
Date of publication: 4/6/1908
Transcript:

MOBILE, Ala., April 6. – Walter Clayton, a negro who was serving time at the stockade of the Hand Lumber Company for manslaughter, late Saturday afternoon attacked Mrs. Joseph White, aged twenty years, and was lynched by a mob of seventy-five men outside the limits of Bay Minette last night.

Citation:

“Alabama and Mississippi Mobs Lynch Two Negroes; Escaped Convict Assaulted White Woman; Young Black Murders Boy.” Oakland Tribune (Oakland, CA), April 6, 1908.