Two Negroes Lynched In South One for Killing Boy, the Other for Assault – Each Confesses His Guilt

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Source Type: Newspaper
Author: n.a.
Publisher: New-York Tribune
Place of publication: New York, NY
Date of publication: 4/6/1908
Transcript:

Mobile, April 5. – Walter Clayton, a negro who was serving time at the stockade of the Hand Lumber Company for manslaughter, late Saturday afternoon criminally assaulted Mrs. Joseph White, twenty years old, and was lynched by a mob of seventy-five men outside the limits of Bay Minette last night. The negro confessed his guilt.

Citation:

“Two Negroes Lynched In South; One for Killing Boy, the Other for Assault – Each Confesses His Guilt.” New-York Tribune (New York, NY), April 6, 1908.