LYNCH LAW.
(By Electric Caole—-Copyright.) LViiftt. and N.Z. Cable Association.! New York, May 19. Two lynchings occurred in different paris of the South to-day—one in Georgia, where a young negro was burned at the stake for having robbed and killed a white postwoman and stolen her automobile. Two thousand persons witnessed the lynchings, various individuals shooting at the nogro while he burned. Another negro was hanged in Texas. He was arrested for an alleged attack on a white girl. A posse went out to find him after he had escaped from prison, and later he was found hanging to a tree.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4594, 22 May 1922, Page 4
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