The Law, Crime and Punishment

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The Law, Crime and Punishment

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Alfred Johnson Fined $10 and Court Costs in Mayor's Court
A July 23, 1872 *Lauderdale Times* report of the July 22 sentencing of Alfred Johnson in the Mayor's Court of Florence to the tune of $10 and court costs for "'kicking his wife' last Saturday."

Note: In the 1870 Lauderdale County federal…

Mayor's Court
An August 13, 1872 report of the August 9 session of the Mayor's Court in Florence at which African-American resident Ellen Amonett was charged with "chastising" Amelia Cooper for "slander-talk" and was fined by Mayor Neander H. Rice for $10 or ten…

Bound Over
An August 13, 1872 *Lauderdale Times* report of the arrest of Geo. Howel [sic] for assaulting Reuben Walker with a pop-gun at the Memphis & Charleston Railroad depot over a perceived wrong. Howel was brought before Mayor Neander H. Rice who bound him…

"A Requisition"
A June 26, 1873 Tuscumbia North Alabamian article reporting that upon the request of the Governor of Tennessee, Marshal County, Tennessee African-American burglar and fugitive George Phillips, who had been arrested in Lauderdale County and held for…

Richard West Committed to the Colbert County Jail on the Charge of Perjury
A Thursday, May 4, 1876 Tuscumbia, AL North Alabamian article reporting the incarceration, on "Saturday last" of Richard West, in default of $300 bail, for perjury, in the Colbert County jail in Tuscumbia.

The Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Appeal and Execution of African-American James Boddie, alias James White, for the Alleged Attempted Rape of Artelia Little, a White Woman, at Colbert's Reserve in Lauderdale County in September of 1874. Part I:
A Series of 1874, 1875 and 1876 Florence Gazette, Florence Times-Journal and Tuscumbia North Alabamian newspaper articles chronicling the arrest, trial, conviction, appeal, escape from jail, recapture and execution of James "Jim" Boddie, alias James…

The Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Appeal and Execution of African-American James Boddie, alias James White, for the Alleged Attempted Rape of Artelia Little, a White Woman, at Colbert's Reserve in Lauderdale County in September of 1874. Part II:
A Series of 1874, 1875 and 1876 Florence Gazette, Florence Times-Journal and Tuscumbia North Alabamian newspaper articles chronicling the arrest, trial, conviction, appeal, escape from jail, recapture and execution of James "Jim" Boddie, alias James…

Jim Boddie, "Back Again into the Jaws of Death"
This is a newspaper article about Jim Boddie, who was apprehended for the alleged rape of a white woman. While Boddie was awaiting execution, he escaped and was captured near Iuka, MS. Boddie was hanged in May 1876 in Tuscumbia.

The Murder of Tobe Irvine and the Subsequent Trial and Sentencing of John Mayfield and Alex Jones and Mayfield's Execution by Hanging
A series of newspaper articles and other documents chronicling the November, 1878 murder of of black Florence resident Tobe Irvine in Key's billiard saloon by fellow-black residents John Mayfield and Alex Jones, the subsequent trial and sentencing of…

Negro Man Killed on the Dillahunty Place
December, 1879 Florence Gazette notice stating that according to Jas. J. Olive, "last Saturday" an unnamed Negro man was killed on the Dillahunty farm seven miles from Florence by a white man named "Jones."
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