Got His Desserts

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Evening Tribune
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kansas
Date of publication: Jul 19, 1884 12:00 am
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Transcript:

Got His Deserts CHICAGO, July 19.-A Daily News, Tuscaloosa, Ala., special says: Henry Burke, colored, who attempted to out- rage a little white girl, was captured last night in the garret of an old house. A mob at midnight took him from the jail and hanged him to a tree in the street, first putting bullets in his body.