JUDGE LYNCH.
MURDERERS HANGED BY THE MOB. GUARDS OVERPOWERED. . | By relorraph—Press Association—Coiri'lcht Shrevepoft (Louisiana), Dec. 16. A mob lynched two negroes named Ernest and Frank Williams after, they had confessed to the murder of one Ballard, a storekeeper, whose body they hacked to piecce. The storekeeper had been formerly a prison guard, in which capacity ho killed two escaping negroes, and for this the Williams's plotted his death. ' Tho negroes begged for mercy when tho mob overpowered tho gaolers, huttho mob yelled: "You showed no mcrcy to Ballard." Another lynching occurred at-Willis-ton, in North Dakota, where a murderer named Cuthbertson was hanged. A band of masked men battered down the gaol doors with n» iron pipe and carried off Cuthbertson and hanged him from a bridge spanning the river. They riddled his body with bullets. Tho police who interfered wore badly beaten. Cuthbertson was undergoing a life sentence.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1935, 18 December 1913, Page 5
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148JUDGE LYNCH. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1935, 18 December 1913, Page 5
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