| Source Type: | Newspaper |
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| Publisher: | Daily Arkansas Gazette |
| Place of publication: | Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Date of publication: | 1916-01-26 |
| Transcript: | Livingston, Ala., Jan. 25.- Richard Burton, negro, charged with burglary and the wounding of a storekeeper at Boyd Station, was hanged by a mob near here today. Burton and two other negroes were discovered in a store at Boyd Station, was hanged by a mob here today. Burton and two other negroes were discovered in a store at Boyd Station late last night. Burton stabbed the storekeeper several times.He was being brought to jail here when the mob overpowered his guard and hanged the negro to a tree. |
| Citation: | (1916, January 26). Alabama Negro Lynched. Daily Arkansas Gazette, pp.. 1. |