Armed Mob Brings Night Of Terror To Town
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; Received Mouday, 8.45 p;m. NEW YORK, July 17. | GovernOr Puller Wai'ren lias orderea 150 Natio'nal Guardsinen i'nto tiie to'vVil oi i Groveland, Elorida, wliejre a Ku- KluxKlan parade followed a night of terror. ' The cliaiu of events begaa wlien a yoaag wife reported that she had! been . talten from her husband in Groveiana by four Negroes and raped- by each at gunpoint. Two negroes were arrested as suspects. Later a lieavily arweu mob threatened 'to storm the gaol in the nearby tofrn- of Tavares where they thought *the' Negroes were being held but the shei'iif persuaded them to leave. The Negroes had been transferred to a. seeret gaol. The mob fheh roanleci chrough the Negro seetion' of G-rove-land, iiring shots and sliouting threats.
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 July 1949, Page 8
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