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TENTH CASE IN YEAR. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). VANCOUVER, Jan. 2. A message from Memphis says that Mississippi’s fourth lynching during 1928 occurred within five hours of the end of the year. Charles Shepherd, a negro convict, had killed Joseph Duval, a prison warden, and abducted his twenty-year-old daughter and carried her into- the hills. Thirty hours after she staggered into the village. A woman named Laura Keeler, aged thirty, captured Shepherd ivitli a gun, tied him in her motor-ear and started for the gaol. A mob overtook her, forcibly taking the negro away. They tied him to a stake and burned him. Then they hanged the body to a tree. The total of lynchiiigs in America for the year was ten, which was the smallest number in any year for ten years. In 1919 there were 83.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1929, Page 6
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141NEGRO LYNCHED Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1929, Page 6
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