Negro Woman held for attempted murder
Item
- Title
- Negro Woman held for attempted murder
- Source
- The Montgomery Advertiser (AL)
- Date
- 1/25/20
- page
- 7
- Identifier
- Image 7 of The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.), January 25, 1920 | Library of Congress (loc.gov)
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- rat poison; atempted murder
- Race of alleged offender
- Black alleged offender
- Gender of alleged offender
- Female alleged offender
- Race of alleged victim
- White alleged victim
- Gender of alleged victim
- Male; Female alleged victim
- Law enforcement involved
- sheriff
- Stage of the Legal System
- arrest
- Location
- in state; Greensboro, AL
- Length of story
- 131
- Description
- GREENSBORO, ALA. Jan. 23.—Two negroes. Daisy Peck. a 12-year-old girl and Addie McCorrel, a young negro woman, are in the county Jail here charged with poisoning coffee at the home of Dr. W. C. Gen in at Akron, on the night of Jan. 12th, which came so near being fatal to Dr. and Mrs. Genln, Miss Huffman and Mr. Parr, who all partook of the coffee which contained rat poison. Daisy Peck, the one who poisoned the coffee, says she was told to do so by Addie McCorrel, a former cook of the Genin’s, who it has been found, did not run away first as reported, but was living with another family at Akron when arrested by the Sheriff. The victims of the poisoning have recovered from their fearful illness.
