Lynched.
NEGRO DIES AT THE STAKE; Large Crowd Watches Flames as They Consume the Victim. Assaulted a White Woman in Alabama, Whose Husband Fires the Pile -- Was Run Down by Bloodhounds.
WETUMPKA, Ala., Oct. 2. -- Winfield Townsend, alias Floyd, a negro, was burned at the stake in the little town of Eclectic, fifteen miles from this place, a half hour after midnight, this morning. The crime with which he was charged was an assault upon Mrs. Lonnie Harrington, whose husband set fire to the brands which reduced Townsend's body to ashes.
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NEGRO DIES AT THE STAKE; Large Crowd Watches Flames as They Consume the Victim. Assaulted a White Woman in Alabama, Whose Husband Fires the Pile -- Was Run Down by Bloodhounds.
WETUMPKA, Ala., Oct. 2. -- Winfield Townsend, alias Floyd, a negro, was burned at the stake in the little town of Eclectic, fifteen miles from this place, a half hour after midnight, this morning. The crime with which he was charged was an assault upon Mrs. Lonnie Harrington, whose husband set fire to the brands which reduced Townsend's body to ashes.
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Lynched.
NEGRO DIES AT THE STAKE; Large Crowd Watches Flames as They Consume the Victim. Assaulted a White Woman in Alabama, Whose Husband Fires the Pile -- Was Run Down by Bloodhounds.
WETUMPKA, Ala., Oct. 2. -- Winfield Townsend, alias Floyd, a negro, was burned at the stake in the little town of Eclectic, fifteen miles from this place, a half hour after midnight, this morning. The crime with which he was charged was an assault upon Mrs. Lonnie Harrington, whose husband set fire to the brands which reduced Townsend's body to ashes.
www.autopsis.org/foot/lynchdates2.html
www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/blood_red_record.htm
NEGRO DIES AT THE STAKE; Large Crowd Watches Flames as They Consume the Victim. Assaulted a White Woman in Alabama, Whose Husband Fires the Pile -- Was Run Down by Bloodhounds.
WETUMPKA, Ala., Oct. 2. -- Winfield Townsend, alias Floyd, a negro, was burned at the stake in the little town of Eclectic, fifteen miles from this place, a half hour after midnight, this morning. The crime with which he was charged was an assault upon Mrs. Lonnie Harrington, whose husband set fire to the brands which reduced Townsend's body to ashes.
www.autopsis.org/foot/lynchdates2.html
www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/blood_red_record.htm
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