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MURDER OF WHITE WOMAN VEGRO CHAINED TO PUMP AND BURNED. GUILTLESS NEGRO HANGED. Bv Teleeraph—Press Association— OopyriaM NEW YORK, February 10. At Houston, Missouri, after he had confessed to tho murder of a white woman, a negro named Reacker was lynched by a crowd. An armed mob kept the sheriff’s posse powerless. Tho negro was chained to a pump and burned to cinders. The mob then hanged another negro suspected of being implicated in tho crime, and later discovered that he was not guilty.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8351, 11 February 1913, Page 8
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86LYNCH LAW New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8351, 11 February 1913, Page 8
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