The Bakersville Lynching Affair
42 PEOPLE KILLED AND 40
WOUNDED.
TROOPS TO BE SENT TO QUELL THE DISTURBANCE.
(per press association.)
NEW YORK, January 6.
The trouble in connection with tbe lynching affair at Bakersville bas assumed a most serious aspect. In all 42 people have been killed, among the number being the Sheriff, while the list of wounded reaches 40. Three prisoners were lynched by tbe mob, who are now in possession of the town, and the troops will probably be sent to qnell the disturbance. The prisoners were deliberately shot on the way to execution.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2320, 7 January 1893, Page 2
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97The Bakersville Lynching Affair Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XX, Issue 2320, 7 January 1893, Page 2
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