LYNCH LAW.
AMERICA'S LITTLE WAYS. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright, Received 17, 10 p.m. New York, February 16. Fifty masked men stopped the Illinois Central passenger train near Love, Mississippi, and forced the sheriff to deliver up two negroes, accused of wounding a mill owner. The mob prepared to lynch both. .. The sheriff, however, declared that one negro was not guilty. The,mob thereupon released him, bu; compelled ttc other to leap the bridge with a rope rounif his neck. The mob dispersed after seeing the negro dead. The mill owner was ambushed a week ago, and is not likely to live.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 197, 18 February 1914, Page 5
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101LYNCH LAW. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 197, 18 February 1914, Page 5
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