A NEGRO RAPIST LYNCHED
Item
- Title
- A NEGRO RAPIST LYNCHED
- Source
- Savannah Morning News (GA)
- Date
- 1884-07-19
- page
- 4
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/item/sn82015137/1884-07-19/ed-1/.
- Crime
- Rape
- Subject
- Attempted Rape; Young Girl; Mob Lynching
- 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
- 116
- Description
-
A Negro Rapist Lynched.
Birmingham, Ala., July IS.—The negro
Andy Burke, who waylaid the 13-year-old
daughter of a prominent citizen at Tuscaloosa, Ala-, Tuesday, while she was
returning from school, and attempted to
rape her, was found late last night, two
miles from Tuscaloosa, in a cabin, with
the doors and windows barricaded and
provisions enough to last several days.
A posse earned him before the little girl
and she identified him. He then confessed
the crime, was put in the guard bouse,
and just before day was taken out by a
mob and swung to a tree in front of the
Presbyterian Church. While in the death
throes' the mob riddled him with bullets.