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CASE IN KENTUCKY
'LEGISLATIVE PROTEST;
(Received January 26, 2 p.m.) NEW YOBK, January 215. The Kentucky Legislature' at Trankfort, the capital, passed a resolution today authorising the Governor to'taka steps to prevent lynching,: following1 the' lynching late last night of Alex Scott, a young negro who was charged with fatally; beating Alex Johnson, a whit* coalminer. Thirty odd masked menled a mob of 300 to the gaol, dragged Scott out, and hanged him on a tree.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 8
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78NEGRO LYNCHED Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 8
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