ATTEMPTED LYNCHING
PREVENTED EY TROOPS
TWO OF MOB KILLED
TENNESSEE, Dec. 20,
Extraordinary resistance on the part of the authorities against the efforts of the townspeople to lynch a young negro who was being tried on a charge of assaulting a 14-year-old schoolgirl, resulted in the death of two members of the mob, and the serious wounding of seven others by machine-gun and rifle fire of National Guardsmen, who then disguised the prisoner ir a guardsman’s uniform, with his face hidden by a gas mask, and spirited him away from the courthouse building, they themselves fighting a successful rearguard battle with the mob, whose barrage of stones and repeated rushes were insufficient against the troopers’ bayonets. The mob later set fire to the courthouse. which seemed to bo doomed to destruction.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18586, 21 December 1934, Page 5
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131ATTEMPTED LYNCHING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18586, 21 December 1934, Page 5
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