OUTRAGE AND LYNCHING

Title: OUTRAGE AND LYNCHING
Source: Savannah Morning News (GA)
Date: 1885-07-26
page: 1
Identifier: https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82015137/1885-07-26/ed-1/.
Crime: Rape
Subject: Rape; Mob; Lynched; 13 year old
Race of alleged offender: Black alleged offender
Gender of alleged offender: Male alleged offender
Race of alleged victim: White alleged victim
Gender of alleged victim: Female alleged victim
Law enforcement involved: Mob
Stage of the Legal System: Extralegal
Location: In State, Atlanta GA
Length of story: 100
Description: Atlanta, July 25.— Last night Peter
Stamps, colored, was lynched at Douglasville by a mob of 500 men for an alleged
rape committed upon Ida Abercombie,
daughter of a well-to-do white farmer.
The girl was 13 years old, and a few days
ago her parents discovered that she was
about to become a mother. She confessed
that Stamps, who worked on the place,
was the father of her child, and she said
that be had a year ago outraged her, and
at various times since had compelled her
to submit to his desires. Stamps was arrested and placed in jail.