Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1898 — Lynched. [ARTICLE]

Lynched.

Charlottesville, Va., July 13. —John Henry James, a negro, who criminally assaulted Miss Julia Hotopp, on the public road near her home Monday morning, was lynched Tuesday two miles west of the city, by an armed posse of 200 men.