NEGRO FIREBUG LYNCHED
Item
- Title
- NEGRO FIREBUG LYNCHED
- Date
- 3/31/03
- page
- 2
- Identifier
- https://lccn.loc.gov/sn84020121
- Crime
- Arson
- Subject
- Arson; Lynching; Mob
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Stage of the Legal System
- Extralegal
- Location
- Out of state, Lewisville AK
- Length of story
- 72
- Description
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NEGRO FIREBUG LYNCHED. Lewisville, Ark., March 31.óMeager news has reached here of a lynching at Bradly, near the Louisiana line.
Iírank Robertson, the negro lynched, was in jail charged with arson. He had confessed to firing a store. A party of twenty-five men, supposed to be from across the Louisiana line,rode into Bradly, overpowered the jailer, took possession of the negro and rode away with him. The body has not been found.
