Memphis Daily Appeal, May 26, 1882
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As seen from this dispatch all the way in Tennessee, word of Aldy Neal's lynching spread far and fast. Not one article attempts to sympathize with the deceased. The general consensus was that Neal was "disreputable" and a "desperado."
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This file appears in: Rockford Necktie Festival
Rockford Necktie Festival
Before it was known as "Spokane County's preeminent grain market," Rockford earned a reputation for vigilante justice. Like many other Western farming and ranching communities in the 1880s, Rockford experienced a certain element of…