Hung and Shot

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Fort Wayne Sentinel
Place of publication: Fort Wayne, IA
Date of publication: Jul 19, 1886 12:00 am
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Transcript:

Hung and Shot. CHICAGO, July 19.-A daily News spe- cial from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, saye: Henry Burke, colored, who attempted an outrage upon a little white girl, was captured last night in an an old house, A mob at midnight took him from the the jail and hanged him to a tree in street and put five bullets in his body.