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| Source Type: | Newspaper |
| Author: | n.a. |
| Publisher: | Star Tribune |
| Place of publication: | Minneapolis, MN |
| Date of publication: | 4/21/1904 |
| Transcript: | BAY MINNETTE, Ala., April 21 – Dock Cole, a merchant and assistant postmaster at Little River, in the northern part of Baldwin county, was murdered yesterday by negroes. A posse captured two negroes, Robert Tate and Rube Sims, Tate confessing. A lynching is feared. Sheriff Armstrong has gone to the scene of the crime. |
| Citation: | “Alabama Merchant Killed; Dock Cole – Murdered by Two Colored Men – One Confesses When Arrested – Lynching Feared.” Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), April 21, 1904. |