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| Source Type: | Newspaper |
| Author: | n.a. |
| Publisher: | The Coosa River News |
| Place of publication: | Centre, AL |
| Date of publication: | 1/21/1898 |
| Transcript: | Ed Frankin, colored, convicted at Mobile, Ala., last Monday of killing Adolphus Bailey on the Tensaw river, and sentenced to imprisonment for life, confessed to a reporter at the county jail that while serving a term of four years for assault to murder, in Pratt mines, he had murdered a fellow prisoner with a pick. For this homicide he was punished by the mine superintendent, receiving twenty-one lashes. That no further action was taken is a matter of great surprise among local officials. |
| Citation: | “Was Light Punishment.” The Coosa River News (Centre, AL), January 21, 1898. |