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Con Savage

died December 26, 1891 · Alabama

Con Savage was a nephew of Bob Sims, and a Mobile dispatch reprinted in The Morning Call reports that he asked that, if the men cared enough to bury him, he be placed beside Sims. He was among a group who surrendered to a sheriff's posse in Alabama and were being taken under guard toward jail. The dispatch says that about a mile from the house, one to two hundred men took the prisoners from their guards and hanged them from one tree. Con Savage was among those hanged.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Mobile dispatch reprinted in The Morning Call says a mob of one to two hundred men took Con Savage and others from their guards while they were being taken toward jail and hanged them from one tree.

Reported by: Mobile dispatch reprinted in The Morning Call (reporters).

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