News in Brief

Case(s)
Source Type: Newspaper
Publisher: The Times and News
Place of publication: Eufaula, Alabama
Date of publication: Jan 15, 1884 12:00 am
Transcript:

In Walker murder was fol lowed immediately by lynching a boss contractor. a white man named Pope and a negro. both employes of the western division of the Georgia Pacifie Railway, had an altercation and the negro, ‘who was drunk, shot Pope thro the heart, killing him instantly. The murderer was immediately secured by the road laborers, most of them negroes. and hang ed to the nearest tree. The re- moteness of the scene from mail and telepraph facilities prevents the prompt publication of fuller details S. In Walker murder was fol lowed immediately by lynching a boss contractor. a white man named Pope and a negro. both employes of the western division of the Georgia Pacifie Railway, had an altercation and the negro, ‘who was drunk, shot Pope thro the heart, killing him instantly. The murderer was immediately secured by the road laborers, most of them negroes. and hang ed to the nearest tree. The re- moteness of the scene from mail and telepraph facilities prevents the prompt publication of fuller details S.