LYNCH LAW.
NEGROES HANGED IN A PUBLIC SQUARE. Reoeivod April 17, 8.55 a.m. NEW YORK, April 16. A mob at Springfield, Missouri, onterod the gaol, secured two negroes, who were under arrest, charged with attacking a white girl, and hanged them on the statue of the Goddess of Liberty in the public square. Afterwards their bodies were burnt in tho presence of three thousand people. The negroes protested their innocence. A third negro, charged with murder, was also lynched.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8122, 18 April 1906, Page 5
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79LYNCH LAW. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8122, 18 April 1906, Page 5
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