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Hunting Tennessee Lynchers

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
September
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Memphis, SeDt. 3.- The slaughter oí six negroea by a uiob of fifty men near Mulington, a town north of this city, has . waked up the authoritíes to a degree of vigor seldom knowa ín similar iüstauces. The negroes- Daniel Hawking, Graham White. Edward Hali, John Hayes, Ribert Haynes and William Werner - were ia charge of Detectives Richardson and Atkiusou, aud were en route here tobe jailed on charges ot baru-burning. Fifty men, uamasked, did the work. The uegroes were shackled together and the lynchers just opened fire oa them and kept it up until the six negroes were a mass of bloody mutilations. Criminal Court Judge Cooper has had the detectives arrested and jailed without bail on the charge of haviug led their prisoners into the mob's handa, and has al30 had T. D. Lexton, J. W. Walker and W. G. Thompson, farmers of the neigbboruood, arrested, while warrants are out for forty more. The Appeal has a vigorous and naging editorial calling for the running down of the outlaws and declaring that thay must be brouaht to justice.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News