A Lynching Tragedy.
« NEGROES KILL A WHITE MAN. RETALIATION^DEAD, TWO NEGRO MEN AND TWO WOMEN. [BT KLSOTAIO TELEORAPH— <3OPTRIGHT.] [PKB PRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received May 23rd, 9.20 a.m.) New York, May 22. ?• While a mob of lynchers were searching the house %f Sam Padgett, a negro, living in Clacon, Georgia, whose son Flem was suspected of assaulting white women, the inmates of the house fired, killing one white man and wounding four. The mob killed four of the Padgetts, including two women, but allowed Flem to escape.
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Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 273, 23 May 1907, Page 2
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86A Lynching Tragedy. Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 273, 23 May 1907, Page 2
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