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Collection: The Law, Crime and Punishment
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Mayors Court
A July 16, 1872 *Lauderdale Times* report of the July 12 session of the Mayor's Court in Florence in which black residents Ryas [sic] Turner and Jack Baugh were before His Honor "for scuffling in fun, only in fun," however their scuffling got out of…
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…
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…
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…
The Killing of Sheffield, Alabama Resident Autrey Broaden on January 5, 1927.
A Series of documents chronicling the shooting of Autry Broaden by Officer MJ Mitchell on January 5, 1927.
According to noted Yale Professor of Music and Sheffield, Alabama native Willie Ruff on pages 22-23 of his autobiography A Call to Assembly,…
Bootlegger Hunt McVey Shot while Resisting Arrest with his Partner, Manuel Pruitt.
A couple of April 15 and April 16, 1920 Florence Herald and Florence Times articles reporting the shooting and wounding in the leg "on Saturday night last," of suspected African-American bootlegger Hunt McVey when he and his partner, Manuel Pruitt,…
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…
Former Florence City Marshal (chief of police) Ed Blair Whips two Negro Boys Caught Stealing chickens with a Horse Whip
Florence Herald and Florence Times reports that on Monday night, August 11, 1890 Former city marshal William Edward "Ed" Brown (1847-1894) caught two black youths, John Patton and Buck Williams, attempting to steal his chickens, "locked them up,"…
The 1922 Murder of Andrew Simpson
A Series of Florence Herald and Florence Times accounts of the June, 1922 murder of African-American porter of JW Stutts Drug Store Andrew Simpson by Stutts Drugs soda jerk Porter J. Yates.
Saturday, June 24, 1922, eighteen year-old Porter Yates,…
Five White and Five African-American Policemen Appointed in Florence in December of 1867.
An abstract from the Florence City Council Minutes of December 21, 1867, from AL Hausmann's 2000 book "Police Story: A History of the Police Department of Florence, Alabama from 1818 to 2000," p. 95. Mayor of Florence James Brock was authorized by…
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