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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. |