LYNCHING IN AMERICA
THREE MURDERERS DEALT WITH. ij Tolciraph—Pren Association—CopyriglU SHREVEPORT (Louisiana), Dec. 16. A mob lynched two negroes named Ernest and' Frank Williams after they had confessed to the murder of one Ballard, a storekeeper, whoso body they hacked to pieces. Tho storekeeper had been formerly a prison guard, In which capacity ho killed two escaping negroes, and for this the W r ilUams’s plotted his death. Tho negroes begged for mercy when tho mob overpowered tho gaolers, but the mob yelled- “You showed no viercy to Ballard.*’ Another lynching occurred at Wriliiston, in North Dakota, where a murderer named Cuthbertson was Hanged. A band of masked men battered town the gaol doors with an iron pipe ud carried off Cuthbertson and hanged him from a bridge spanning the river. They riddled his body with ‘jullots. Tho police who interfered wore badly beaten. Cuthbertson was undergoing a life sentence. '
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8609, 20 December 1913, Page 7
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