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Underwood, “a Négro was-welLL thoughtot an-heis native
Charlaston, Mo. He was a good provider who had raised _
all of his children to adulthood but for a number of
_ years had been the lover-of_a- Negro woman, Belle ae
Nhen Miss lucas started going with another man, Under-_
_ wood became jealous and induced her to accompany him to
a wooded area where he pleaded-with-her-to- abandon her
new lover, When she refused, he shot her twice and
then bludgeoned her to death with a Clube Underwood es-
_Caped to. Illinois where -he- was~captured a year later ~~
w orking as a farm hand a nd returned to Charleston where—
- he “was convicted. He was hanged on April 6, 1883,

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UNDERWOOD, Howard

Underwood, ’a Négro was-well thoughfof in-his native
Charleston, Mo. He was & good provider who had raised
all of his children to adulthood but for a number of

_ years had been the lover-of a Negro woman, Belle Incas.
When Miss Imcas started going with another man, Under——
wood became jealous and induced her to accompany him to
a wooded area where_he pleaded-with her to abandon her
new lover. When she refused, he shot her twice and
“then bludgeoned her to death with a club. Underwood es-
caped to Tllinois where -he-was-captured a-year later

w orking as a farm hand a nd returned to Charleston where—
“he was convicted. He was hanged on April 6, 1883,

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