LYNCHING OF NEGROES
MR TRUMAN HORRIFIED WASHINGTON, August 1. President Truman, expressing horror at the lynching of four negroes in Georgia, conferred with the AttorneyGeneral, Mr Tom Clark, and instructed the Department of Justice to use all its resources to investigate the crime, and also to ascertain if any Federal Statute can be applied to the apprehension and prosecution of the criminals concerned. In Lexington, Missippi, to-dav, seven white landowners were charged with the murder of the negro. Leon McTatie, whose body was found floating in the river. McTatie, who was employed by Elder Dodd, one of the arrested" men, was gaoled and charged with stealing three saddles. Dodd obtained McTatie’s release by paying the court charges, after which McTatie disappeared. He is alleged to have, been whipped to death. The body was found floating near Indianola. At Hattiesburg a mayor announced the arrest of the deputy - sheriff charged with the murder of a negro aged 37, and the father of 10 children.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 249, 2 August 1946, Page 3
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