THE COLOUR TROUBLE. A NEGRO LYNCHED.
By Telegraph.— Press Aaswlation.— Copyright. NEW YORK, llth February. Another outbreak of racial feeling is reported, this time at Brookhaven, a county seat with about 2500 inhabitants, in the State of Mississippi. While a posEa of police under the Deputy-Sheriff and a company of State militia were escorting to the courthouse a negro accused of committing an out- j rage on a respoctable young white woman, they were attacked by a crowd of two thousand whites. The police and militia were overpowered, after a fight during which some shots were fired, and the negro was taken from his legal custodians and hanged to a telegraph pole. Two of the crowd were injured b,y shots fired during the melee.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1908, Page 7
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