LYNCH LAW.
INNOCENT NEGROES HANGED BY MOB.
By telegraph, P®wa A*s’n, Conyrigh
Received 9.32 p.m., Juno 6,
T , , Landon, Juno 6. Referring to the SprlDgfield inoiden oablod on April 16. h tho gtaud jury reported that the three negroes were innocent. Tho sheriff and police are blamed,
A oablo from Now York on May 16th stated Amibal Springfield, Missouri, entered a gaol and secured two negroe*, oharged with attacking a whits girl. They hanged them on the statue of the Goddess of Liberty in the Public Square, and afterwards burned the bodies in tbe presenoe of 3000 people Tbs negroes protested their innooenoe. A third urgro, oharged with murder, was also lynched.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1767, 7 June 1906, Page 3
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