TURNED AT STAKE.
XEW YORK. Juno
Two- Negroes were burned to death |, y a mol. early this morning outside tiro town of Louisville. Mississippi. Accused of murdering a. popular sawmill superintendant. Air. Clarence Nichols, the two men went on the way to Jackson gaol in the custody of ■police. They were overtaken by a mob of a thousand men who blocked the road and demanded the surrender of the prisoners. The police opened lire, hut the mob refused to be intimidated and secured their victims. AYhile it was still dark they marched them through the streets of Louisville into the country beyond. There by a telephone pole several vans of petrol were poured over the t"o shrieking men and a lighted match set their clothes on fire.
Their screams softened the heart of one bystander who sought to extinguish ' the blaze, hut ho was forcibly held back, nearly suffering a similar fate for his humanity. Another mob i> en route lo Alontgomey, Alabama, from .Jackson. Alis-is-sippi. with the object os storming the prison and lynching a Negro confirmed there. He is charged with the murder of two women. The National Guard has been called out to defend the prison.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1927, Page 1
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199TURNED AT STAKE. Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1927, Page 1
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