Negro Lynched in Alabama

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Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Daily Mail
Place of publication: Hagertown, Maryland
Date of publication: 9/25/1933 0:00
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Negro Lynched In Alabama TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Sept. 25, (AP).-The second lynching’ in Tuscaloosa county within the past six weeks was under investigation by the sheriff’s department today. : Sheriff Shamblin ordered the inquiry yesterday after the body of Dennis: Cross, negro under bond- on – charge of assaulting a white wo- man, was taken from his home by men posing as officers and shot to death. The sheriff maid he was told the group of six or seven men appeared at the negro’s homeland told Dennis It was necessary for him to go to Tuscaloosa and – post a bond larger than that required when he was re- leased on. Bail a week ago.