Lynched Him Quickly.

An “18-year-old” black “youth” faces a white “lynching party” after committing a “criminal assault” on a “14-year-old” girl.

Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 30—At Duke a small station on the Louisville and Nashville, and Easy and West railway, sixteen miles north of Anniston, last night, and 18-year-old colored youth named Abernathy made a criminal assault on the 14-year-old adopted daughter of W. N. Thompson, section foreman on the Louisville and Nashville. The colored man was captured three hours after the attempt, and was identified and lynched. Those who composed the lynching party are said to have been among the best citizens of the community, and they went about the work quietly and in an orderly way. The colored man was found at the home of another colored man in the neighborhood.

“Lynched Him Quickly.,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed January 20, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1331.