EXTRAORDINARY HANGING
Item
- Title
- EXTRAORDINARY HANGING
- Source
- Savannah Morning News (GA)
- Date
- 10/25/00
- page
- 1
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/item/sn89053684/1900-10-25/ed-1/.
- Crime
- Rape
- Subject
- Assaulted; Lynched;
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Race of alleged victim
- Black alleged victim
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- Mob
- Stage of the Legal System
- Extralegal
- Location
- In State, Macon GA
- Length of story
- 81
- Description
-
Following Action of Whites the Negroes lynched a Negro.
Macon, Ga Oct. 24 —A story reach##
here of an extraordinary lynching near
Wellston in Houston county. last week
a negro was lynched at that place for assault on a white woman. Sunday another
negro assaulted an girl of his own race.
The man was captured! and negroes of the
vicinity asked the while citizens to let
them have him. Thia was compiled with
and the negro was lynched In the woods.