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Collection: The Law, Crime and Punishment
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The Attempted Murder of Mattie Davis:
"Shooting to Kill: A Daring Attempt to Assassinate a Negro Woman."
"Arrested on Serious Charge, but Released."
Undated Photo of Rev. John L. Legg.
Two 1907 newspaper articles reporting the attempted murder of black West Florence resident Mrs. Mattie Davis on Saturday night, November 16, 1907 and the subsequent arrest of African-American Giles County, Tennessee native and Florence Baptist…
The Assassination of Lewis Waits:
"Lewis Waits Shot in His Own Door"
"A Cowardly Assassination"
"County Treasurers' Report, May 29, 1908"
Three newspaper articles dealing with the April, 1906 assassination of African-American Florence resident Lewis Waits (ca. 1858-1908) as he stood in the doorway of his Handy Hill home. A coroner's inquest held by JD Weeden determined that Waits was…
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 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 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,…
The 1907 Murder of Lossie Woods by Jesse Williams
A series of articles and documents chronicling the Saturday, March, 16, 1907 murder of 17-18 year-old African American Lossie Woods by 23 year-old white Jesse Williams.
Woods, an employee of the fertilizer factory in Florence with a reputation for…
Sylvester Wilson Killed While Resisting Arrest
A Florence Times and Florence Herald article reporting the 3:30 am Thursday morning, September 11, 1919 shooting death of African-American resident of Memphis Tennessee, Sylvester Wilson, while resisting arrest.
While making his rounds East…
Stole Pair of Shoes.
A June, 1904 *Florence Herald* report of young African-American Jimmy Holt, "just back from the coal mines, where he had served a sentence for stealing," who was arrested "Saturday morning," for "robbing the Jackson Dry Goods Co. in Florence of…
Shooting of Lauderdale County black resident Pugh Reynolds
A November 11, 1880 North Alabamian notice of the shooting of Pugh Reynolds by his unnamed uncle, as well as the unrelated shooting of black resident Fount Turpin by an unknown person or persons.
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