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THE LILLY MURDERS. DIFFICULTIES OF THE PROSECUTION. Prcs« Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, June 17. (Received June 18, at 10 p.m.) A telegram from Lilly stales that a number of the townsfolk who were charged with murder in the Ku Klux Klan riots were acquitted after a brief trial. The prosecutor announced that he would continue the trial of others. He is not discouraged, but the general belief now is that the matter will be discontinued and the prisoners released since the prosecutor will ‘be compelled to depend on the same testimony throughout. - . The court has adjourned till July 1. A. and N.Z. Cable. .■
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19202, 19 June 1924, Page 7
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