| Publisher: | Courier-Journal |
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| Place of publication: | Louisville, KY |
| Date of publication: | 19 July 1884 |
| Transcript: | [Special to the Courier-Journal.]BIRMINGHAM, ALA., July 18. – The negro, Andy Burke, who waylaid the thirteen year-old daughter of a prominent citizen of Tuscaloosa, Ala., last Tuesday while she was returning from school, and attempted rape, was found late last night two miles from Tuscaloosa in a cabin, with the doors and windows barricaded and provisions enough to last several days. A posse carried him before the little girl. She identified him. He then confessed the crime and was put in the guard-house. Just before day he was taken out by a mob and swung to a tree in front of the Presbyterian church. While in his death throes the mob riddled him with bullets. |
| Citation: | Lynched For Attempting Rape. (1884, July 19). Courier-Journal. |