Jelks Offers Rewards

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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.