Rewards For Lynchers Governor of Alabama Determined to Uphold Law of the Land

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Source Type: Newspaper
Author: n.a.
Publisher: The Canebrake Herald
Place of publication: Uniontown, AL
Date of publication: 4/28/1904
Transcript:

Governor Jelks. of Alabama. has offered a reward of $400 for the first arrest and conviction of a person implicated in the lynching of Reuben Sims, a negro, of Baldwin county. Rewards of $100 each were also offered for the second and third persons arrested and convicted of being implicated.

Sims was lynched because of the assassination of Dr. C. D. Cole, a prominent citizen of Baldwin county.

Citation:

“Rewards For Lynchers; Governor of Alabama Determined to Uphold Law of the Land.” The Canebrake Herald (Uniontown, AL), April 28, 1904.