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| Source Type: | Newspaper |
| Author: | n.a. |
| Publisher: | The Savannah Tribune |
| Place of publication: | Savannah, GA |
| Date of publication: | 4/30/1904 |
| 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 Savannah Tribune (Savannah, GA), April 30, 1904. |