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Three Negroes Lynched

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
March
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tallahassee, Fia., March 16.- Three negroes. Jim Gilmore, Jim Miley and Otis Miller. were taken from the sheriff Tuesday by flfty armed men, strung up to trees and their bodies riddled with bullets. The crime for which they were lynched was the murder of John Barefield, postmaster at Blue Springs, and nis assistant, John R. Turner, on March 3. The murder was committed for the purpose of robbery.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News