LYNCHING OF NEGROES
Received Tlnirsdttv, 7 p.m. WASIHXGTOX, Julv 31. President Truman, expres.siug liorror at tlie lyiiching of four negros in (ieorgia conferred with tlie Attorne.v General (AI i'. Clark) and instructed Ihe Department of .Tustice to use all its resources to investigate the crime and also a.seertain if auv Federal Btatute rau be applied to tlie appreliension and prosecution of the criminals eoncerned. lu Lexington, Mississippi, today seven wliite landowners were eharged with the murder of the negro Leon M cTat ie wlio.se body was found tloating in the river. MeTatie, who was employed 1 >y Elder Dodd, one of the arrested men, was gaoled and eharged with st ealing three saddles. Dodd obtained McTat ie 's release by paving the court costs and withdravving tlie charges, after which MeTatie disappeared. He is alleged to liave been whipped to death. The body was found floating near Indianola. At Hattiesburg, the Mayor annouuced Ihe arrest of a deputy sherrill' eharged with the murder of a negro aged 37, the father of JO children.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 August 1946, Page 5
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