"JUDGE LYNCH."
CABLE NEWS.
United Press (Association-By Electric Telegraph Copyright.
NEGRO HANGED TO A TELEGRAPH POLE. SHERIFFS AND MILITIA OVERPOWERED.
. Received February 11, 10.30 p.m. NEW YORK, February 11. Twenty thousand whites at Brookhaven, Mississippi, overpowered a posse of deputy sheriffs and a company of State militia, escorting to court a negro accused of an outrage on a respectable young white woman. Some shots were fired by the parties, and two persons were injured. The negro was then taken to a telegraph pole and hanged.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9053, 12 February 1908, Page 5
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85"JUDGE LYNCH." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9053, 12 February 1908, Page 5
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