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Taken From Alabama Jail BODY EXHIBITED IN TOWN (Received October 28, 5.5 p.m.) New York, October 27. A message from Marianna (Florida) sfates that the mutiliated and bulletpierced body of Claude Neal, a negro charged with attacking aud murdering a white girl, Lola Kennedy, a farmer’s daughter, was brought there to-day 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 last night. The authorities said that apparently Neal was lynched last night by a mob which removed him from a jail 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 last night that the negro would be “executed” in a nearby swamp. They promised to bring thd body into Marianna for exhibition, as a result of which a crowd gathered, armed with rocks and clubs, intent to strike even a lifeless creature. First, however, the lynchers carried the corpse to the home of the victim to give her father an opportunity to view it.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 29, 29 October 1934, Page 9
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203NEGRO LYNCHED Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 29, 29 October 1934, Page 9
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