ENRAGED MOB.
AN ATTEMPT TO LYNCH MURDERERS. (UNITED lEX S3 ASSOCIATION" —BY EIACTEIC TOT EOEArH^-COPTEIGET.) (Received August 14tli, 9 p.m.) VANCOUVER, August 13. An enraged mob of 2000 stormed the City Hall, which serves as a gaol in the town of Ypsilanti, Michigan, threatening to lynch Thomas Blackstone, a negro giant, and Fred Smith, a white man, following on their confession of the massacre of two boys and two girls in a motor-car along the Ann Arbor road two nights ago. Troops were called out and aided the police to hold the mob in check. Blackstone, Smith, and Oliver Torch pleaded guilty at a special evening session of the Court and were sentenced to life imprisonment as there is tio capital punishment in Michigan. Smith is an ex-convict, and the finding of his revolver led to tho identity of the murderers, who got only eight shillings from their four young victims.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20316, 15 August 1931, Page 15
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151ENRAGED MOB. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20316, 15 August 1931, Page 15
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