The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hung the Wretch.

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Hung the Wretch.

--A friend from Newton Factory informs us that a brutal negro in that neighborhood, a short time since attempted to violate a lady — the wife of a most respectable citizen, and escaped; but that he was captured after a few days. On Wednesday last, a large number of the citizens of Newton and Jasper counties assembled at the house of John A. Allen, Esq., in Jasper. A committee, consisting of twenty-one prominent and respectable gentlemen, were selected to take the matter in consideration. After deliberation, they decided to take the law into their own hands, and that the negro should be hung that evening at four o'clock. This decision of the committee was ratified by the assemblage without a dissent, and the sentence was executed at the appointed hour.--Atlanta Confederacy.

The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. October 29, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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