MEGRO BURNED AT STAKE.
ANOTHER HANGED IN TEXAS.
NEW YORK, May 19,
Two lynchings occurred in different parti of the South to-day. One was 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 lynching, various individuals shooting at the negro' while he burned.
Another negro was hanged in Texas. He was arrested for an alleged attack' on a white girl. A posse was sent out to find him after he had escaped from prison, and later he was found hanging from a tree.-—A. an/ N. Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 402, 20 May 1922, Page 5
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