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  • Description is exactly "A Thursday, June 9, 1892 Florence Herald report that local black resident Sim Casey was escorted to the Bryce Insane Asylum at Tuscaloosa the day before.

    Casey was long-known to be mentally unstable by locals however he was considered harmless and his "idiosyncrasies" of believing himself a federal agent tolerated until he attempted to arrest a fellow citizen and then became violent when officials attempted to apprehend him. "

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A Thursday, June 9, 1892 Florence Herald report that local black resident Sim Casey was escorted to the Bryce Insane Asylum at Tuscaloosa the day before.

Casey was long-known to be mentally unstable by locals however he was considered harmless…
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