LYNCH LAW IN AMERICA
NEW YORK, February 11. Twenty thousand whites at Brookhaven, Mississippi, overpowered a posse of deputy sheriffs and a company of the State militia, who were escorting to the court a negro who was accused of committing am outrage upon a respectable young white woman. Some shots were fired, injuring two of the crowd. The negro was hanged to % telegraph » pole.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 27
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64LYNCH LAW IN AMERICA Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 27
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