Mobs Lynch Two Both Were Taken From The Arresting Officers Negro Slays 12-Year-Old Boy Body of African Who Criminally Assaulted White Woman Has Not Yet Been Found

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Source Type: Newspaper
Author: n.a.
Publisher: The Marshfield Mail
Place of publication: Marshfield, MO
Date of publication: 4/9/1908
Transcript:

Mobile, Ala. – Walter Clayton, a negro, who was serving time at the stockade of the Hand Lumber Company for manslaughter, assaulted Mrs. Joseph White, aged 20, and was lynched by a mob of 75 men outside the limits of Bay Minette Saturday night.

Citation:

“Mobs Lynch Two; Both Were Taken From The Arresting Officers; Negro Slays 12-Year-Old Boy; Body of African Who Criminally Assaulted White Woman Has Not Yet Been Found.” The Marshfield Mail (Marshfield, MO), April 9, 1908.