Items of Interest Gathered From Over this Busy State

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Sumter County Sun
Place of publication: Livingston, AL
Date of publication: 4/3/1890
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Transcript:

Last Wednesday morning while two little white girls were on their wsy to school hear Stanton, they ‘were waylaid and outraged by a negro named Frank Griftn. The negro was caught and placed uudeV guard, but that night a party of ai med men in disguise overpowered the guard aud took Frank to a dog wood tree and hanged him. A volley of buckshot was poured into him as he swung.

Citation:

“Items of Interest Gathered From Over this Busy State.” The Sumter County Sun (Livingston, AL), April 03, 1890.