Skip to main content

'Assault in the The daily morning journal and courier (New Haven), 1880-1900'

BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY

Item

Title
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY
Source
Savannah Morning News (GA)
Date
1881-06-08
page
2
Identifier
https://lccn.loc.gov/sn82015137
Crime
Rape
Subject
Rape; wife
Race of alleged offender
Black alleged offender
Gender of alleged offender
Male alleged offender
Gender of alleged victim
Female alleged victim
Law enforcement involved
Mob
Stage of the Legal System
Arrest
Location
Out of state, Rocking ham county NC
Length of story
42
Description
The negro who committed the rape upon
tie wife of a leading citizen of Rocking
ham county, North Carolina, near Reids
vile, has been taken to Greensboro for safe
keeping from lynchers, together with an
other man also implicated in the crime.