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Collection: The Law, Crime and Punishment
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"Taken to the Asylum"
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…
The Trials and Sentencing of Bill Brown for the Murder of Constable James Foster at Rogersville, Alabama in 1895.
A Series of 1895 and 1896 Florence Gazette, Herald and Times, newspaper articles on the arrest, trial sentencing, conviction and appeal of Lauderdale County African-American resident Bill Brown for the midnight, Sunday, April 12, 1896 murder of…
The Shooting of John Rowell at Colbert's Reserve in September of 1896
Two September, 1896 Florence Herald and Florence Times articles reporting on the fatal shooting of African-American resident John Rowell of Colbert's Reserve, at WL Sherrod's house on the Boddie Place near the "bend of the river," in west Lauderdale…
With the Courts
A collection of Florence Herald articles for 1898 detailing the arrests, trials, and sentencing of Lauderdale County residents in the commissioner's, mayor's and police courts. Usually, though not always, African-American defendants are noted by the…
Chased a Negro
A Thursday, March 6, 1899 Florence Herald report of Florence Police Chief (1987-1901) Samuel Weakley "SW" Lipscomb on his bicycle, chasing African-American offender Hence Simpson, riding a "Texas mustang." Simpson's horse was too fast for the Chief,…
A Merry Chase
A Thursday, September 14, 1899 Florence Herald report of African-American prisoner Jim Hoague's escape from the city jail and Florence Police Chief (1897-1901) Samuel Weakley "SW" Lipscomb's pursuit of Hoague on Lipscomb's bicycle.
Lauderdale County Sheriff JL Potts Escorts a Patient to the Mt. Vernon Insane Asylum for Negroes near Mobile
A Friday, April 9, 1937 Florence Report that Lauderdale County Sheriff JL Potts had just returned from escorting an unnamed patient to the Mt. Vernon Insane Asylum for Negroes near Mobile.
"Good Work by Policeman Eastep"
An October 23, 1908 newspaper report of the capture and arrest of black Florence resident Cleve Johnson, who attempted to flee to Arkansas after stealing $44 from fellow-black resident of Florence Charley Cowans in "Blair's quarters," in downtown…
"Caught in the Act"
A Friday, October 16, 1908 newspaper report of the arrest of John Clemons [sic], a black resident of Oakland, in the bend of the river, for selling liquor without a license. Clemons was arrested in an alley between Court and Pine Streets within a…
Night Riders in Lauderdale County:
"Night Riders Out"
"Night Riders in Lauderdale"
"Are Still At It"
"Farmers' Union Holds Meeting"
"The Night Riders: Lauderdale Farmers' Union Members Pass Resolutions"
"Nearly all Fakes"
A Series of newspaper articles from October and November of 1908 reporting on the activity of "night riders" in the Colbert's Reserve area of western Lauderdale County. The "night riders" had posted signs across Colbert's Reserve warning white…
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