INDICTMENT REFUSED
LYNCH NOT LEADER NEW YORK. Sept. 18. The Grand Jury at Warrenton, North Carolina, yesterday refused to indict the self-confessed leader of a lynching mob and also the grey-haired gaoler who led the armed white men to a young negro’s cell. The ringleader. Jos Cunningham, a theatre manager and the gaoler, A. W. Edwards, were formally adjudged innocen of lynching at Jackson, North Carolina, but the Governor of North Carolina, Mr Gregg Cherry, reopened the case under the 1893 anti-lynching law. The negro was taken from the cell in May but escaped from the lynchers.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22440, 22 September 1947, Page 6
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