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HANGED FROM A TREE SHOTS FIRED INTO BODY RUSTON (Louisiana), Oct. 14. (Received Oct. 14, at 10 p.m.) One thousand men lynched Tommy Williams, a 19-year-old negro, in the •woods, where last night he allegedly killed a paper mill foreman and criminally assaulted his girl companion. The mob. after trailing the for 25 miles through the bush with the aid of bloodhounds, refused to permit the sheriff and the State police to approach him. They threw a rone over a branch of a tree and hanged him. firing several shots into the body.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23631, 15 October 1938, Page 13
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