THE PEONAGE TRIAL.
Vi;; A GRUESOME STORY, (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) {Australiaa and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, April 6. Clyde Manning, a negro, testifying at the trial of Williams, at Covington, Georgia, told gruesome details of how three negroes were murdered a week after-•Government agents questioned them regarding the alleged peonage existing on Williams's estate. Manning swore that, at Williams's orders, he and another negro tied two men together with heavy chains, the. victims begging for mqrey. Williams ordered them to be thrown into the river, and Manning and His helper then . threw them over a bridge. Later, the negro who helped Manning was himself weighted with chains and drowned tc prevent him from talking.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17114, 8 April 1921, Page 7
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