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- Description is exactly "(18-19) Excerpts of the testimony of Tuscumbia resident and Alabama Governor Robert Burns Lindsay on the lynching of the three Negro men in Tuscumbia in September of 1868, from "Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Enquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, Alabama, Volume I, pp. 179-180 (and title pg).
In his testimony Gov. Lindsay stated that the three lynched men were believed to have been the leaders of the conspiracy to burn the Tuscumbia Female Academy but that there were five other conspirators in the plot who were apprehended and tried; Lindsay himself volunteered as co-counsel to defend the five, one of whom was the husband of one of Lindsay's former slaves, the Lindsay's cook. Gov. Lindsay testified that the five were convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for between 5-7 years however counsel for the five appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court, which suspended their sentences, however in the interim the five escaped from prison and fled to the states of Tennessee and Kentucky, which according to Lindsay, public opinion held to be a good thing else the five might have met the same fate as the three alleged ringleaders."
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