Two Lynchings In South Swift Justice Meted Out to Negroes by Mobs

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Source Type: Newspaper
Author: n.a.
Publisher: Belvidere Daily Republican
Place of publication: Belvidere, IL
Date of publication: 4/6/1908
Transcript:

Mobile, Ala., April 6. – Walter Clayton, a negro who was serving time at the stockade of the Hand Lumber company for manslaughter, late Saturday afternoon assaulted Mrs. Joseph White, aged 20 years, and was lynched by a mob of 75 men outside the limits of Bay Minette.

Citation:

“Two Lynchings In South; Swift Justice Meted Out to Negroes by Mobs.” Belvidere Daily Republican (Belvidere, IL), April 6, 1908.