JURY IS CALLED TO BEGIN PROBE TUESDAY, 9A.M.

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: Tuscaloosa News
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa, AL
Date of publication: 8/14/1933 0:00
Transcript:

the violence which occurred early Sunday morning. They called attention to the fact that the deaths of Pippen and Harden comprised the first lynching in this county since 1884 when a negro was taken from the city jail and hanged. In that case, 40 years ago, the negro was identified as one who attempted to ravish a while girl. He was hanged to a tree on Greensboro Avenue at Ninth Street.