Negro Committed Criminal Assault and Went Usual Route

Title: Negro Committed Criminal Assault and Went Usual Route
Source: Savannah Morning News (GA)
Date: 10/31/00
page: 7
Identifier: https://www.loc.gov/item/sn89053684/1900-10-31/ed-1/.
Crime: Rape
Subject: Criminial Assault; Attempted; Adopted; 14 year old; Youth; Lynched
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: Extralegal
Location: Out of State, Birmingham AL
Length of story: 117
Description: Negro Committed Criminal Assault
and Went Usual Route,
Birmingham. Ala.. Oct. 39. At Duke a small Station on the Louisville and Nashville and East and West Railroads sixteen miles north of Anniston. last night
an Eighteen Year old negro youth named
Abernathy attempted a criminal assault
on the 14-year-old adopted daughter of
W. N Thompson, section foreman on the
Louisville and Nashville.
The negro was captured three hours
after the attempt and was identified and lynched. The citizens who composed the lynching party are said to have been among
The best citizens of the community and
They went about the work quietly and
orderly.
The negro was found at the home
of another negro In the neighborhood.