Negro Burned at Stake
MISSISSIPPI LYNCHING MURDER AND ABDUCTION (United l*. A. — By Telegraph — Copyrigh'; (United Service j * i Reed. 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Wed. A Memphis message states that | Mississippi’s fourth lynching during ! 1928 occurred within five hours of the ! end of the year. ! Charles Shepherd, a negro con- ; vict, had killed Joseph Duval, the prison warden, and abducted his 20- | year-old daughter, carrying her into Ihe hills. Thirty hours later she staggered into the village. Curiously, a woman named Laura Keeler, aged 20, captured Shepherd with a gQn, tied him in her motor-car, and started for the i gaol. The mob overtook her, forcibly tak--1 ing the negro away. They tied him to a stake and burned him and then hanged the body to a tree. The year’s total of lynchings in America is ten, which is the smallest number in any year for ten years. In 1919 there were S 3.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 552, 3 January 1929, Page 1
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154Negro Burned at Stake Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 552, 3 January 1929, Page 1
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