OUTRAGE AND LYNCHING
Item
- 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.