White Men to Die for Rape

Two white men are sentenced to die for the rape of a woman, and Mitchell is uplifted that "the law has had its course."

A corporal and a private of the 16th Infantry are sentenced to be shot for robbery and assault on a sixty year old native woman. He was caught in the act and tried by military court which passed the above mentioned verdict. Every time we get a paper from there, we read where some poor Negro is lynched for supposed rape. In this case there was no Negro in the vicinity to charge with the crime and the law has had its course.

“White Men to Die for Rape,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed December 7, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1737.