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| Source Type: | Newspaper |
| Author: | n.a. |
| Publisher: | Our Southern Home |
| Place of publication: | Livingston, AL |
| Date of publication: | 5/4/1904 |
| Transcript: | Governor Jelks, of Alabama. has offered a reward of $400 for the first arrest and conviction of a person implicated in the lynching of Reuben Sims, a negro, of Baldwin county. Rewards of $100 each were also offered for the second and third persons arrested and convicted of being implicated. Sims was lynched because of the assassination of Dr. C. D. Cole, a prominent citizen of Baldwin county. |
| Citation: | “Jelks Again After Lynchers; Alabama Chief Executive Offers Tempting Reward for Mob Members.” Our Southern Home (Livingston, AL), May 4, 1904. |