NEGROES LYNCHED.
AMERICAN MOB LAW. VICTIMS TAKEN FROM GAOLS. A .and N.Z. NEW YORK. Oct. 10. Two cases of lynching, involving the death of four coloured people, occurred this week-end in the south. Tho first was at Aiken, South Carolina. An armed mob obtained entrance to the prison by a ruse. They tied up the 'sheriff and escaped with two negroes and one negress. The three captives were taken to a lonely spot and told t-o run. They were then shot down. 'llia two men and the woman had been tried in connection with a. charge of murdering an officer of the law in the course of a liquor raid last year. In spite of an order issued by tho Governor of South Carolina that every effort should be made to apprehend the lynchers a coroner's jury brought in a verdict of " killed by unknown parties, it being impossible to idontify any of the mob -owing to the fact that they all wore masks." Another negro at Clarksville, Tennessee, who was charged with murdering a farmer, was taken from the gaol by four men and hanged from a tree near the spot where the crime was committed. Tho negro was praying when he was taken from prison.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19456, 12 October 1926, Page 9
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207NEGROES LYNCHED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19456, 12 October 1926, Page 9
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