| Source Type: | Newspaper |
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| Publisher: | Memphis Daily Appeal |
| Place of publication: | Memphis, TN |
| Date of publication: | 19 July 1884 |
| Transcript: | BIRMINGHAM, ALA., July 18. – A special to the Age, from Tuscaloosa says, that the negro Henry Burke, who attempted to rape a little white girl of a good family a few days ago, was captured last night in the garret of an old house near Tuscaloosa and was identified and jailed. About midnight a mob took him from the jail and hanged him to a tree in the street and put five bullet holes in his body. |
| Citation: | Birmingham, Ala. (1884, July 19). Memphis Daily Appeal. |