MOB LAW IN MISSISSIPPI.
Press Association.—Copyright. Received Feb. 11, 10.30 p.m. New York, Last Night. Twenty thousand whites at Brookhaven, Mississippi, overpowered a posse of deputy sheriffs and a company of State militia who were escorting to the court a negro accused of outrage on a respectable young white woman. Some shots were fired, injuring two of the crowd. The negro was hanged from a telegraph pole.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9072, 12 February 1908, Page 5
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67MOB LAW IN MISSISSIPPI. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9072, 12 February 1908, Page 5
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