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Collection: The Law, Crime and Punishment
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The Arrest, Trial and Conviction of John Wesley Barnett for the Alleged Attempted Rape of Marietta Hayes in June of 1899.
A series of 1899 Florence and Tuscumbia newspaper articles reporting on the alleged rape of white teenager Marietta Hayes by sixteen-nineteen year-old African-American John Wesley "Wesley" Barnett some seven miles north of Florence near Little…
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…
"Justice's Court."
An August 13, 1890 Florence Herald report of a garnishment suit involving African-Americans Abe Reynolds vs. Dave Wooten to recover wages from JP Witherow & Co., the contractors for the Philadelphia Furnace, for a "board bill."
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…
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 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…
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 Killing of Robert "Bob" Vaughn by Cad Brown at Oakland and Brown's Subsequent Trial and Sentencing
A series of Florence newspaper articles reporting the December 1889 killing by white resident of Oakland Robert "Bob" Vaughn by African-American Cad Brown at a Negro supper and dance held at a house in Oakland and Brown's subsequent Florence trial…
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.
"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…
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