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Source Type: | Newspaper |
Publisher: | The Selma Times |
Place of publication: | Selma, Alabama |
Date of publication: | Jan 11, 1884 12:00 am |
Transcript: | – TRAGEDY IN WALKER. A Murder and a Lynching On the Same Spot. – Birmingham Age. Mr. L. B. Musgrove, editor of The Jasper Eagle; who was in the city yesterday, re- ports a murder follöwedimmediately by a lynching which occurred Friday alternoon in Walker county near the Fayette line. A boss or contractor, a white man named Pope and a pegro, both employes of the western division of the Georgia Pacific Railway, had an altercation and the negro, who was drunk, shot Pope through the heart, killing him instantly. The mur- derer ‘was immediately secured by the road laborers, most of them negroes, and hanged to the nearest tree. The remote- ness of the scene from mail and telegraph facilities prevents the prompt publication of fuller details. – TRAGEDY IN WALKER. A Murder and a Lynching On the Same Spot. – Birmingham Age. Mr. L. B. Musgrove, editor of The Jasper Eagle; who was in the city yesterday, re- ports a murder follöwedimmediately by a lynching which occurred Friday alternoon in Walker county near the Fayette line. A boss or contractor, a white man named Pope and a pegro, both employes of the western division of the Georgia Pacific Railway, had an altercation and the negro, who was drunk, shot Pope through the heart, killing him instantly. The mur- derer ‘was immediately secured by the road laborers, most of them negroes, and hanged to the nearest tree. The remote- ness of the scene from mail and telegraph facilities prevents the prompt publication of fuller details. |