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Lynched In Court

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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
April
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Union City, Tenn., April 14.- While John Thomas (colored) was on trial here yesterday, charged with outraging Berta Turner, a little girl, masked men entered the court-room, seized Thomas and hung him to a beam. A coroner's jurv rendered a verdict of "death by hanging at the hands of unknown persons."

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register