Lynchings

Case(s)
Source Type: Newspaper
Author: n.a.
Publisher: Alexandria Gazette
Place of publication: Alexandria, VA
Date of publication: 4/6/1908
Transcript:

Walter Clayton, a negro, who was serving a sentence of imprisonment at the stockade of the Hand Lumber Company, for manslaughter, late Saturday afternoon assaulted Mrs. Joseph White, twenty years old, and was lynched by a mob of seventy-five men, outside the limits of Bay Minette, Ala., Saturday night.

Citation:

“Lynchings.” Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria, VA), April 6, 1908.