LYNCHING MOB
NEGRO RESCUED MUNFORDVILLE, Ky., June 12. Raved from lynching after a hand of HO Halo men had him perched on a shaky bedstead with a noose ready, Raymond Gurry, . 19-ycar-old' negro, was in gaol at ‘Elizabethtown to-day awaiting trial on a charge of attempting to assault Mrs. Esther .Tolly, 18, a bride of two months. The town marshal. Mr Burt Hodges, and Dr. Maher Speevack, rescued the negro from the barn of Henry Jolly, the victim’s father-in-law, where the men had made ready for an impromptu hanging.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18758, 15 July 1935, Page 7
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89LYNCHING MOB Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18758, 15 July 1935, Page 7
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