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Source Type: | Newspaper |
Author: | n.a. |
Publisher: | Union Springs Herald |
Place of publication: | Union Springs, AL |
Date of publication: | 4/27/1904 |
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.” Union Springs Herald (Union Springs, AL), April 27, 1904. |