HANGED FOR HOUSE BURNING ~ Typical Southern Justice Meted Out to Incendiaries. Negroes, of Course.

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Source Type: Newspaper
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Publisher: Duncannon Record
Place of publication: Duncannon, Pennsylvania
Date of publication: Feb 19, 1892 12:00 am
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HANGED FOR HOUSE BURNING. Typical Southern Justice Meted Out to Incendiaries. Negroes, of Course. Tuscaloosa, Ala., Feb. 15-Within the past few ‘weeks there have been severalfires at Sylvan, Ala., 13 miles below Tuscaloosa. A few nights since D. S. Robertson’s store house was broken into,goods stolen and the building fired. A searching party was il stituted and, finding a trace, the fire fiends were pursued and finally caught A preliminary trial before a justice was granted the men, who were negroes, and they pleaded not guilty, but confessed to the burning of other buildings. A guard was placed in charge of the the night. During the still hours an armed mob of 30 men over* prisoners for powered the guards, took the prisoners to a tree and hanged them. HANGED FOR HOUSE BURNING. Typical Southern Justice Meted Out to Incendiaries. Negroes, of Course. Tuscaloosa, Ala., Feb. 15-Within the past few ‘weeks there have been severalfires at Sylvan, Ala., 13 miles below Tuscaloosa. A few nights since D. S. Robertson’s store house was broken into,goods stolen and the building fired. A searching party was il stituted and, finding a trace, the fire fiends were pursued and finally caught A preliminary trial before a justice was granted the men, who were negroes, and they pleaded not guilty, but confessed to the burning of other buildings. A guard was placed in charge of the the night. During the still hours an armed mob of 30 men over* prisoners for powered the guards, took the prisoners to a tree and hanged them.