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| Source Type: | Newspaper |
| Author: | n.a. |
| Publisher: | The Ottawa Daily Republic |
| Place of publication: | Ottawa, KS |
| Date of publication: | 4/22/1904 |
| Transcript: | (Scrippe-McRae Telegram.) MOBILE, Ala., April 22 – Reuben Sims, a negro, was lynched by white citizens north of Baldwin, Ala., for the murder of Dr. Cole, a white man. Sims was whipped until he confessed his guilt and was hanged and shot. |
| Citation: | “Wreaked Awful Vengeance; Whites Whipped, Hanged and Shot a Negro for Murder.” The Ottawa Daily Republic (Ottawa, KS), April 22, 1904. |