Negro Assassin Lynched
NEW YORK, Sept. 8. At Husntsville (Alabama} a mob numbering 4000 disarmed the soldiers who were guarding the negro murderer Maples, and then smoked out the soldiers l inside the gaol by burning tar and feathers. They set fire to the building, so that the prisoner was driven to jump from a window. He was at once seized, hurried to the square before the court house and hanged. His body was riddled with bullets.—Laffan.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 257, 3 November 1904, Page 4
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77Negro Assassin Lynched Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 257, 3 November 1904, Page 4
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