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| Source Type: | Newspaper |
| Author: | n.a. |
| Publisher: | The Selma Times-Journal |
| Place of publication: | Selma, AL |
| Date of publication: | 4/13/1908 |
| Transcript: | T. A. Booth, sheriff of Baldwin county has issued a circular, one of which has come into the possession of the Selma police, proclaiming a reward of $400 for the capture, dead or alive, of Walter Clayton, the negro desperado who created such a furror in Mobile by his assault on a white woman, and by his subsequent escape from the mob that was bent on lynching him. Clayton is a negro murerer, who was held in Baldwin county, but escaped to commit his horrible depredation in Mobile. |
| Citation: | “Big Reward For Desperate Negro.” The Selma Times-Journal (Selma, AL), April 13, 1908. |