Source Type: | Newspaper |
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Publisher: | The Daily Signal |
Place of publication: | Crowley, Louisiana |
Date of publication: | 1916-01-26 |
Transcript: | Livingstone, Ala., Jan 26- Richard Burton, a negro, charged with burglary and the wounding of a storekeeper, at Body station, was hanged by a mob of farmers near here early yesterday. Burton, with two other negroes, was discovered in a store at Boyd station late Monday night and he was overpowered stabbed the storekeeper several times. |