NEGRO VICTIMS OF HIGHWAY MURDER

Chronicle (Levin), 29 July 1946, Page 3

NEGRO VICTIMS OF HIGHWAY MURDER

POLICE UP AGAINST WHITE " ' " NON - C OOPER ATION Iveceivt'd Suiulav, 7 p.iu. NEW YOKK, July 27. Twentv anued white ineii, 011 a louely road at ihoiiroe, Georgia, waylaid a wliite fanner who was driviag four iicgroes (two men 'and their wives) i'roiu yionroe to a i'ann. The assailauts held the fanner at gunpoiut wliilc they shot and kilJed the four ncgroes. The sheriir said he believed ihe 1110b did not intend to kiJl Ihe women but rejiorted that oue of them recognised a member of the mob and called him by nanie. Both women were thou shot. All the bodies were riddled with bullets. The sherili' said one of the vietiins liad been released only a few hours earlier from goal nnder bond. Ile liad been imprisoned for stabbing his former employer who liad remonstrated with a negro for abusilig his wife. One of the negro victims was George Dorsey, reeeutly diseharged after iiee years ' serviee in the Arniv. Both young negroes were ouly reeeutly mar- ! ried. They were bound and takou from the ear and led down a side road while the women were held in the automobile. Then a member of the anued mob said oue negress recognised him, whereupon ihe mob leader shouted: "Get those danined women too. " The nnirderers then dragged the shriekiug women from the ear. A few minutes later the farnier heard many sliots. Then the mob dispersed. It was the lirst lynehing in Georgia for years. The bodies were su riddled with bullets that they were seareely reeoguisable. The Georgia State poliee eliiel" deelared he was haiupered in the iuvestigation of the massaerc beeause tlio " liest people '*' in town would not talk about it. Wheu he rcturned to Atlanta he intended to usk the Governor to appeal to every Congressinan to hel[) , [iuss Eederal legislation against mob violence. Ile added that he had soveral leads but the loeal authoritics were not eooperating. MODERN JACK THE RIPPER Iteeeived Sundav, 7 p.111. LONbON, July 26. The German poliee are searching for a modern Jack the Ripper avIio is suspected of slashiug at least six women, parts of whose dismembered bodies have been fouad in ihe last six months in various parts of the city, saj-s the Assoeiated Press Berlin eorrespondent. AJ1 dismemberments were skilfully done. The poliee believe a sex maniac is responsiblc. The iegs of young women found in a canal in ihe American seetor, is tlie latest gruesouie discovery, ,