LYNCHING THREAT
Police Organising as Means of Precaution. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received December 11, 1.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. December 10. A message from Wichita. Kansas, states: Police throughout this State and Oklahoma were organising to-night to prevent the threatened lynching of a man who was arrested on a charge of kidnapping and murdering three persons, who disappeared several weeks ago. According to reports from Oklahoma, where the accused was arrested, he admitted killing a married couple and their friend and disposing of the bodies in a water well. Immediately a lynching mob was organised here and started in a fleet of automobiles to intercept the motor convoy bringing the prisoner here. They purchased a rope and announced that thev would lvnc-h the prisoner as soon as they found him. The police organised an automobile relief posse, which is speeding to prevent the lynching.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 941, 11 December 1933, Page 7
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