Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — Fixes Sentence at Death. [ARTICLE]

Fixes Sentence at Death.

The negro Monroe, who confessed to having assaulted a white woman, was tried at Charlotte, N.'C., and sentenced to be hanged Sept. 13. The jury was out less than three minutes. A company of local militia was ordered out before the trial to protect the prisoner from a threatened lynching.