Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1906 — Southern Lyncher Sentenced. [ARTICLE]

Southern Lyncher Sentenced.

The trial of George Hall, as one of the mob which lynched three negroes at Salisbury. N. C., last week, resulted in bis quick oonviction and sentence to fifteen ycArs m the pbtutefftiary. Half is a white ex-convict, and his counsel has appealed on the ground that 'Gov. Glen was out of the State when tho trial was held. This is the tirst instance of the conviction of a lyncher in the history of the state,