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| Source Type: | Newspaper |
| Author: | n.a. |
| Publisher: | The Centreville Press |
| Place of publication: | Centreville, AL |
| Date of publication: | 4/28/1904 |
| Transcript: | Montgomery, Ala., April 25. – Governor Jelks has offered a reward of $400 for the first arrest and conviction of a person inmplicated 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 Offers Rewards.” The Centreville Press (Centreville, AL), April 28, 1904. |