Walter Neville, AL, 1898

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Black boys sentenced to hang in Morgan County in 1898
for rape of young white girl. Rosa Buford, 18-year-old
black girl convicted of having held the child, duaghter

of her employers, during ass ault also sentenced to
hang but sentence commuted, Don't know whether boys
hanged on not, See Btham New, Nov. 2, 1898, These
cases were supposed to have been appealed.

NEVILLE, Walter and THOMPSON, Lewis

Black boys sentenced to hang in Morgan County in 1898
for rape of young white girl. Rosa Buford, 18-year-old
black girl convicted of having held the child, duaghter

of her employers, during ass ault also sentenced to
hang but sentence commuted, Don't know whether boys
hanged on not, See Btham New, Nov. 2, 1898, These
cases were supposed to have been appealad.

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NEVILLE, Valter and THOMPSON, Lewis

Black boys sentenced to hang in Morgan County in 1898
for rape of young white girl, Rosa Buford, 18-year-old
black girl convicted of having held the child, duaghter
of her employers, during ass ault also sentenced to
hang but sentence conmuted, Don't know whether boys
hanged on not, See Btham New, Nov, 2, 1898, These

cases were supposed to have been appealed.

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