Hanged by a Mob

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Owensboror Messenger
Place of publication: Owensboro, KY
Date of publication: 6/7/1895
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Transcript:

Negro Lynched. Birmingham, Ala., June 6. Jim Powell, a negro, was lynched near Strassburg, Chilton county, last night, for an attempted assault on the 15-year-old daughter of a farmer named Bussy. The girl identified Powell as her assailant.

Citation:

“Hanged by a Mob.” The Owensboror Messenger (Owensboro, KY), June 07, 1895.