Brief, But Newsy

Case(s)
Source Type: Newspaper
Author: n.a.
Publisher: Princeton Daily Clarion
Place of publication: Princeton, IN
Date of publication: 4/6/1908
Transcript:

For murder of a 12-year-old white boy, John Burr, colored, was lynched Sunday near Wesson Miss., and at Bay Minette, Ala., Walter Clayton, colored, serving time in a prison stockade for manslaughter, was taken from the officers and lynched for an attack made on a white woman.

Citation:

“Brief, But Newsy.” Princeton Daily Clarion (Princeton, IN), April 6, 1908.