LYNCH LAW.
A DOUBLE MURDERER. HANGED FROM A BRIDGE. i / ■ (Received 1.30 p.m.). NEW YORK, April 22. Harold Jackson, a wliite man, has been lynched at Poplarville, Mississippi. Jackson bad confessed to the murders of John McLemore and William Maingay, t\yo Government entomologists. Aband of twenty, men raided the gaol, opened the steel doors with blow torches, carriedf Jackson a distance of two njnl es > and hanged him from a railw,ay bridge. ("Sun.") • '" :V
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 95, 23 April 1926, Page 7
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74LYNCH LAW. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 95, 23 April 1926, Page 7
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