| Source Type: | Newspaper |
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| Publisher: | The Progressive Age |
| Place of publication: | Scottsboro, Alabama |
| Date of publication: | 1912 |
| Transcript: | Negro’s Brother Had Shot and Killed Vernon Tutt. Demopolis.- Sam Verge, a negro, paid his life as a penalty for the murder, by his brother, Richard Verge, of Vernon Tutt, a prominent planter of Marengo County, near Hall’s Creek. A crowd of Tutt’s neighbors took Sam Verge from the posse which had arrested him. Soon after the body of the negro was found with bullets. |