The Ouachita Telegraph - Richard Goodwin and Gracy Blanton Lynched

Date: Oct 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>


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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, May 14, 1887
Page 2, Column 4

WEST CARROLL.
 Richard Goodwin and Gracy Blanton, both colored, charged with having robbed
and burned the store of A.L. McBain, were taken from jail by a body of
masked and armed men and hung to a tree about a half mile north of town.
Goods were found in their possession which had been stolen from the store,
and the woman confessed everything.

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