TEXAN LYNCHING
NEGRO BURNED TO DEATH
[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
NEW YORK, May 17
At Koneygrove, Texas, a further example of the recent outbreak of lynehings (cabled on May 9th), occurred when a mob of three thousand Texan whites sey'ed a negro from the police, dragged him through the streets and burned the victim. The drenching rain dispersed the mob. Tile negro was suspected of assaulting a landowner. He had barricaded himself in a cabin. A sheriff’s posse surrounded him. and endeavoured to arrest him, but the mobsters rushed in and seized the negro.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1930, Page 5
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