MURDER OF NEGROES
PRESIDENT TRUMAN EXPRESSES HORROR OTHER RECENT KILLINGS (Recd. 12.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 31. President Truman, expressing horror at the lynching of four negroes in Georgia, conferred with the At-torney-General, Mr, Tom Clark. He instructed the Department of Justice to use all its resources to investigate the crime,and also to ascertain if any Federal statute can be applied to the apprehension and prosecution of the criminals concerned. In Lexington, Mississipi, to-day seven white land-owners were charged with the murder of a negro, Leon McTatic, whose body was found floating in the river. McTatie, who was employed by Elder Dodd, one of the arrested men, was gaoled and charged with stealing three saddles.
Dodd obtained McTatie’s release by paying the court costs and withdrawing the charges, after which McTatie disappeared. He is alleged to have been whipped to . death. The body was found floating near Indianola.
At Hattiesburg, the mayor announced the arrest of the deputy sheriff charged with the murder of a negro, aged 37, the father of 10 children.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 1 August 1946, Page 7
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