MIGHT HAVE BEEN LYNCHED
NEGRO RECEIVES A FLOGGING Fred Allen, a negro, 30 years old, accused of robbing six Richmond homes and striking two housewives, was taken from the county gaol by a mob of masked men, given a severe beating and returned again to the sheriff administering the United States law in that district. Suffering from severe lacerations, Allen called W. T. Thompson, county prosecutor, and said he wished to plead guilty and to he taken from Richmond as soon as possible. A dozen armed men entered the gaol and, after forcing Sheriff Rood Woolard into a closet, compelled a constable to unlock the negro’s cell. A rope was placed about Allen’s neck and he was led outside, where the mob had parked several motor-cars. It was not known where the negro was taken, but forty-five minutes later he was reLurned to the gaol, bleeding from a severe flogging.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 684, 8 June 1929, Page 19
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