Source Type: | Newspaper |
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Publisher: | Gavelston Daily News |
Place of publication: | Gavelston Texas |
Date of publication: | 1891-05-30 |
Transcript: | Escaped to hell The Only Excuse a Posse Would Make for the Avscence of a Prsoner Birmingham, Ala, May 29- Jeff Thomas, a negro who assaulted Mrs. J.V. Neal at Townley, Walker county, a week ago was captured last night and is supposed to have been lynched after midnight. He was in charge of a posse waiting the arrival of the sheriff who when he came discovered the negro gone. All the captors wold say was that Thomas had escaped to hell. |