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♦ — MOB LAW IN AMERICA THREE MURDERERS HANGED. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) SHREVEPORT (Louisiana), 16th Dec. A mob two negroes named Ernest and Frank Williams after they had confessed to the murder of one Ballard, a storekeeper, whose body they hacked to pieces. The storekeeper had been formerly a prison guard, in which capacity he killed two escaping negroes, and for this tho Williams's plotted his death. The negroes begged for mercy when the mob overpowered the gaolers, but the mob yelled, " You showed no mercy to Ballard." Another lynching occurred at Williston, in North Dakota, where a murderer named Cuthbertson was hanged. A band of masked men battered down tho gaol doors with an iron pipe and carried off Cuthbertson and hanged him from a bridge spanning the river. They riddled his Jbody with bullets. The police who interfered wero badly beaten. Cuthbertson was undergoing a lifo sentence.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 146, 17 December 1913, Page 8
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