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Four Negroes Lynched

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
April
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Atan carlyhour theother moriüng sixty undisgulsed men forclbly entered the jail at Yorkvillp.S.Cand breakingopen the eells, seized Giles, Good, Bailey Bowdle, Prendley Thompson and Mose LIpscomb.Negroes, charged with the nnuder of John I(! Good, a young white lad. in December last Taking the prisoners a mile nortli of the village they hanged them to the limbs of trees. These men organized a conspiracy in the fall of 1886 to steal cotton and to murder, If necessary, to conceal ' their crimes, and they killed yonng Ciood. The proners were to have boen triod in a few days, but the lynchers got ahead of the law.

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Ann Arbor Democrat