Bob Jeter, SC, 1886 December 17

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JEPER, Bob December 17, 1886

Bob Jeter, black, hanged Spartanburg, S, C., 12-17-1886,
He broke down on the scaffold and the scene was a most
pithable one,

ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga,, 12-18-1886

Condensed from Charleston NEW & COURIER, Dec,,
18,1886 (3:)) : Robert Butler, alias Jeter,
black aged 17. He killed a white man named
Hampton Littlefiedd. Victim was a blacksmith
and on murder day Jeter came to his forge and
started picking on his apprentice. Victim
warned him to pick on somebody his own size,
so Jeter bludgeoned him to death with a rocks

JETER, Bob December 17, 1886

Bob Jeter, black, hanged Spartanburg, S. C.,y 12-17-1886,
He broke down on the scaffold and the scene was a most
pithable one,

ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga,, 12-18-1886

Gondensed from Charleston NEW & COURIER, Deca,
18,1886 (3:)) : Robert Butler, alias Jeter,
black aged 17. He killed a white man named
Hampton Littlefiedd., Victim was a blacksmith
and on murder day Jeter came to his forge and
started picking on his apprentice. Victim
warned him to pick on somebody his own size,
so Jeter bludgeoned him to death with a rock.

JETER, Bob December 17, 1686

Bob Jeter, black, hanged Spartanburg, S. C., 12-17-1886,
He broke down on the scaffold and the scene was a
pitéable one,

ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Atlanta, Ga,, 12-18-1886

Gondensed from Charleston NEW & COURIER, Dec.,
18,1886 (3:1) : Robert Butler, alias Jeter
black aged 17. He killed « white man named
Hampton Littlefiedd, Victim was a blacksmith
and on murder day Jeter came to his forge and
started picking on his apprentice.

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