Dec. 28, 1905, Athens, Alabama was no stranger to racial
trouble, no part of Alabama was. On this day there was another lynching with an
unsolved mystery. On this morning a mob of 100 men acted as an extra-judicial
posse and began tracking a Black man from Birmingham for the alleged assault on a
policeman in the small town of Elkmont. The officer, Henry Nichols, was slightly
injured from a gunshot. The posse pursued Alex. McDonald through the night and
brought him back to Athens early in the morning with a rope around his neck and
reportedly over 100 bullets riddling his corpse. The coroner took possession of
the body and promptly lost it with no report of anyone finding it. There was
total indifference by local authorities to the lynching and missing body, or at
least none reported in any newspaper of the time.
Sources:
https://www.newspapers.com/image/242649729/?terms=%22Alex%20McDonald%22&match=1
https://www.newspapers.com/image/242649729/?terms=%22Alex%20McDonald%22&match=1
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