LYNCH LAW.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 23 May 1917, Page 5

LYNCH LAW.

NEGROES BURNED AT THE STAKE

BY CABLE—PBESS' ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.

(Received May 23, 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 23. Accused of decapitating a white girl after an assault at New Orleans, Parsons, a negro, was forcibly taken from the sheriff's custody and burned at the stake at Pottscampa, Missouri. Parsons implicated two other negroes, one deaf and dumb, who was discovered and also burned. The mob is seeking the third. Women and girls watched the lynching.