Lynching Is Feared

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Source Type: Newspaper
Author: n.a.
Publisher: The Semiweekly Billings Gazette
Place of publication: Billings, MT
Date of publication: 4/22/1904
Transcript:

Bay Minette, Ala., April 21. – Dock Cole, a merchant and assistant postmaster at Little River, was murdered Wednesday by negroes. A posse captured two negroes, Robert Tate and Rube Sims, Tate confessing. A lynching is feared. Sheriff Armstrong has gone to the scene of the crime.

Citation:

“Lynching Is Feared.” The Semiweekly Billings Gazette (Billings, MT), April 22, 1904.