LYNCH-MAD MOB.
Death of Suspected Negro Criminal. DRAMA IN SOUTHERN U.S.A. KEW YORK, October 2S.
The mutilated bullet-pierced body of Claude Neal, a negro, charged with attacking and murdering a white girl, Lola Kennedy, a farmer's daughter, was brought to Marianno? Florida, by a mob of men and hanged from a tree in front of the courthouse, where a throng of 2000 men, women and children were awaiting its arrival. The authorities said that apparently Neal was lynched by a mob which removed him from the gaol in the neighbouring State of Alabama on Thursday night and kept him secreted from the authorities, who did not seem to object to his removal. A group of six men who called themselves the "Lynch Committee" announced that the negro would bo "executed" in a near-by swamp. They promised to bring the body to Marianna for exhibition. Tho crowd gathered armed with rocks and clubs, intent on striking the lifeless body. However, the lynchers first carried the corpse to the homo of tho victim to give her father an opportunity to see it.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 256, 29 October 1934, Page 7
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