A SLAVERY SCANDAL.
EVIDENCE OF BRUTAL MURDERS. SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE. By Telegraph.—Prslw Ass®. —Copyright. Received March 28, 12.15 a.n/ New York, March 2<f. Agents pf the Department of Justice at Atlanta, Georgia, are investigating an alleged system in Jasper County, under which negroes are virtually enslaved. They discovered nine bodies of murdered negroes, chained and weighted with rocks, at the bottom of several rivers, and also shallow graves. John Williams, the owner of a plantation on which six bodies were discovered, has been arrested and charged with murder, while his three sons have also been apprehended. Clyde Manning, a negro employed by Williams, confessed to complicity in the murders.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1921, Page 5
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111A SLAVERY SCANDAL. Taranaki Daily News, 28 March 1921, Page 5
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