A LYNCHING TRAGEDY.
FIVE LIVES TAKEN. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. New York, May 22. A lynching tragedy has taken, place at Laeon, in Georgia. As a. white mob Was searching the house of Sam Padgett, a negro, for his son-Flem, who was suspected of having assaulted white women, the inmates of the house fired upon them and killed one white man and [wounded four. I The mob then killed four of the Padgetts, including two women, but Flem, the man they sought, escaped.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13496, 24 May 1907, Page 5
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82A LYNCHING TRAGEDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13496, 24 May 1907, Page 5
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