The Carrollton Sun

We learned from a gentleman from Monroe county, Alabama, that forty of the most respectable citizens of that county had been indicted for murder. An old man was waylaid and killed and his money taken some time last spring; suspicion at once rested upon two brothers, who were taken up and imprisoned apart from each other; several men went to one of them and told him that his brother had confessed and fixed the charge upon him, the one to whom they were talking, said his brother was the one that shot him. They were then both taken out and lynched, and forty of the most active participants in the affair were indicted, and are to be tried at the next Court. Public opinion will clear them, although the law and facts may be against them.

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