Lynched By A Mob Of 500 Quick Justice in Alabama

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Source Type: Newspaper
Author: n.a.
Publisher: The Abilene Weekly Chronicle
Place of publication: Abilene, KS
Date of publication: 4/8/1908
Transcript:

Quick Justice in Alabama

Mobile, Ala., April 6. – Walter Clayton, a negro, who was serving time at the stockade of the Hand Lumber Company for manslaughter, late Saturday afternoon assaulted Mrs. Joseph White, aged 20 years, and was lynched by a mob of seventy-five men outside the limits of Bay Minette Saturday night.

Citation:

“Lynched By A Mob Of 500; Quick Justice in Alabama.” The Abilene Weekly Chronicle (Abilene, KS), April 8, 1908.