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Collection: The Law, Crime and Punishment
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Harry McGlofflin Caught Stealing a Watch
A Wednesday, October 5, 1881 Lauderdale News report that a watch from Florence jeweler Capt. Abraham Brown's store had been found in the possession of African-American Harry McGlofflin (McLaughlin), who allegedly stole it when the clerk briefly left…
George Patton Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Attempted Rape
A Wednesday, March 20, 1878 Florence Gazette report of cases in the previous week's Circuit Court, including the case of African-American George Patton, who plead guilty to attempted rape and was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary; also …
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,…
Jail Birds Released
An April 2, 1920 Florence Times report that "on Tuesday last" Judge Grubbs of the federal court had 20 prisoners arrested in Lauderdale County over the past several months to appear before him in court, and released eighteen of them, all…
A Roundup of Robbers
A Friday, March 26, 1920 Florence Times report of a police sting at Nitrate Plant No. 2, in which a gang of thieves consisting of two white men and thirty or forty African-Americans was shut down by Capt. CH Keck and Chief of Police Watson of the…
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,…
Batey Cunningham Shot by his Wife
An April 1, 1920 Florence Herald report of the shooting "the first of the week" of African-American resident of Rogersville, in East Lauderdale County, Batey Cunningham (1893-), by his unnamed wife. The paper noted that public sentiment seemed to be…
Bootlegger Meets Death
A Friday, April 2, 1920 Florence Herald report that a local African-American bootlegger whose identity was unknown but whose nickname was "Fathhead," was shot and killed the previous Sunday at a barbershop on Sweetwater Street, allegedly while…
Negro Convict Captured
A Friday, July 17, 1942 Florence Herald report that escaped convict Alex Kitchen, who in March in a Lauderdale County court was sentenced to prison for five years for grand larceny, and had escaped from state prison approximately two months ago, had…
African-American Frank Thompson Appointed a Special Policeman of the Stewart Springs Neighborhood of West Florence in March of 1896.
A Thursday, March 5, 1896 Florence Herald and Saturday, March 7, Florence Times report that African-American Frank Thompson had recently been appointed by the Florence City Council as a "special policeman" of the African-American Stewart Springs…
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