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| Source Type: | Newspaper |
| Author: | n.a. |
| Publisher: | Hopkinsville Kentuckian |
| Place of publication: | Hopkinsville, KY |
| Date of publication: | 4/9/1908 |
| Transcript: | Walter Clayton, a negro convict, was lynched near Bay Minette, Ala. He has assaulted Mrs. Joseph White. John Burr was hanged by a mob near Wesson, Miss. Burr had murdered the twelve-year-old son of his employers because the boy interrupted him while fishing. |
| Citation: | “Ropes For Two.” Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, KY), April 9, 1908. |