WHERE MOB RULE FINDS PUBLIC PARDON
Received Wednesday. 7 p.m. NEW YORK, August 5. A countv grand jury of 18 today, at Jackson, Xorth Caroliua, rei'used to indict seveu wliite mpn allegedly in volvcd in a lynching attem])t. The sttvcn rncn were aecused of breaking and entering a gaol with inteiit to kidna]), kill or injure a negro prisoncr Godwin Busli, who was held on a cliargi1 of trying to rape a wliite wonian. A maskfid mol) look Busli from the gaol hn t he oscaped and later surrendered to the P.B.I. Tlie Xorth Caroliua Governor, Mr. R. Oregg, lator todav condemned the jury 's action and said: "Oue lnember of tlie mol) liad confessed to tho crimo. The jury's action does not e.Iosft the case. " The grand jury also rejected the ehnrge that Busli atteiupted to rape a wliite wonian.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 August 1947, Page 5
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