Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1904 — Negro Lynched in Alabama. [ARTICLE]

Negro Lynched in Alabama.

Huntsville. Ala , Bept. 8. —After setting fire to the jail and smoking out tbe prisoner, while the fire department was held at bay with guns and the sheriff, bis deputies, and the soldiers “outwitted,” a mob. estimated at more than 2,000 persons, lynched Horace Maples, a negro, accused of murdering John Waldrop. Maples was hanged on a tree on the courthouse lawn.