Strange theft of Confederate chair mystifies Alabama town
by Kim Chandler And Rebecca Santana, The Associated Press
Posted Apr 28, 2021 12:56 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 28, 2021 at 12:58 pm EDT
SELMA, Ala. It’s not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair may be the oddest.
How to steal a chair that weighed maybe 500 pounds (225 kilograms)? Who was the group “White Lies Matter” that appeared to have stolen the chair to make a statement about how we remember the Confederacy? What of the ransom demand that didn’t ask for money, but included threats of a scatological nature? And how did the chair end up 300 miles (480 kilometres) away in New Orleans?
Kim Chandler And Rebecca Santana April 28, 2021 - 9:56 AM
SELMA, Ala. - Itâs not the first Confederate monument to go missing in Selma, Alabama, but the story of the stolen Jefferson Davis chair may be the oddest.
How to steal a chair that weighed maybe 500 pounds (225 kilograms)? Who was the group âWhite Lies Matter that appeared to have stolen the chair to make a statement about how we remember the Confederacy? What of the ransom demand that didn t ask for money, but included threats of a scatological nature? And how did the chair end up 300 miles (480 kilometres) away in New Orleans?
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Confederate monument valued at $500,000 disappears for weeks from Alabama in strange incident
Where’s the chair?
That’s the puzzling question officials and locals alike were left wondering in March after a chair monument honoring Confederate president Jefferson Davis believed to weigh around 500 pounds disappeared from its plot in Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, Ala.
The chair was recovered on April 9 all the way in New Orleans.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy, which the chair belongs to, alerted authorities that the monument was missing on March 20 and tried to raise awareness through an advertisement in a newspaper.
A group that identified itself as “White Lies Matter” then claimed to be behind it.
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