MOB LAW RULES.
Vicious Lynching of Negro in
Florida
DEPUTY-SHERIFF ASSAULTED
(Received 12 noon.) TAMPA (Florida), January 30. Mob violence flamed here early today as a crowd of men attacked the deputyslieriff while he was conducting Robert Johnson, a negro held for allegod criminal assault on a white woman. The oflicer was overpowered and held captive while the negro was taken to a secluded spot nnd shot clown.
Later the oflicer was released, after being kicked and beaten.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 26, 31 January 1934, Page 8
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